Clinical Nurse Specialist | North London NHS Foundation Trust

Camden And Islington NHS Foundation Trust; City Of London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in North London seeks a qualified nurse for the Health Based Place of Safety, focusing on mental health assessments and crisis care management. The role involves triaging service users, conducting assessments, and supervising nursing staff. Ideal candidates should have strong expertise in mental health, teamwork, and risk assessment. Opportunities for professional development in acute care are available.

Qualifications

• Expert care in mental health assessments.
• Ability to develop effective risk management plans.
• Experience in coordinating and supervising nursing staff.

Responsibilities

• Conduct high quality mental health assessments of service users.
• Mentor nursing students and provide clinical supervision.
• Manage effective triage processes for referred service users.

Skills

Mental health assessment

Triage process

Risk assessment

Clinical supervision

Team coordination

Education

Registered Nurse qualification

Job description

The Health Based Place of Safety is a nurse-led service in North London NHS Foundation Trust with the sole remit of providing assessments and care for service users detained by the police under sections 135 and 136 of the Mental Health Act.

Service users presenting to HBPoS are often in an acute phase of crisis and require high quality assessment and intensive care for a period of 24 hours.

Responsibilities

• Safe and effective triage process of all service users referred to the service.
• Conducting high quality mental health assessments of all service users.
• Developing effective risk assessment and risk management plans for service users during the period of admission and on discharge.
• Ensuring high quality physical health assessment and on-going physical health care during admission.
• Providing high quality handovers to SPR and AMHPs and timely referrals for Mental Health Act assessments and sourcing of beds.
• Effective shift co-ordination and the management of 3 staff.
• Providing clinical supervision up to 2 staff.
• Escalating breaches and incidents effectively.
• Mentoring Nursing students.
• Taking a clinical lead role within the team.
• Supporting the manager in roster management, in phase reviews, team audits and team QI projects.

The HBPoS offers excellent opportunities for nurses to develop their specialist skills in acute crisis care and to develop effective working relationships with colleagues in the Police, ambulance services and local emergency departments.

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

Our Five-Year Strategy

1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all.
3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

Qualifications and professional practice

• To be responsible for providing expert care in an area of designated expertise, in accordance with NMC or HPC codes of professional conduct.
• To provide expert, autonomous and highly specialist clinical practice within a multidisciplinary team to include:
• Initial assessment and formulation using a range of mental health or other specialist tools.
• When required to do so making appropriate judgments about own day to day caseload.
• To assess, plan, implement and evaluate care in negotiation with service users, carers and other services, considering the needs of a diverse community.
• Apply a range of therapeutic modalities, using evidence-based interventions in accordance with the requirements of service line care pathways.
• Maintaining contemporaneous records to the standard required by the trust and the relevant professional body (where appropriate to the post holder).

This is not an exhaustive list; please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.

This advert closes on Monday 13 Oct 2025.