Intensive Outreach Clinician

North London NHS Foundation Trust; City of Westminster; Hybrid; GBP 34,000 - 41,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in the UK is seeking 3 Intensive Outreach Clinicians to join a multi-disciplinary team. You will be responsible for delivering evidence-based care and interventions to service users with complex mental health needs. The role entails working collaboratively with various healthcare professionals, conducting assessments, and providing mentorship to junior staff. Excellent support and ongoing training are offered within a flexible work environment. Join us to make a meaningful impact in mental health care.

Benefits

Generous annual leave

NHS pension scheme

Health and wellbeing initiatives

NHS discounts

Qualifications

• Experience in community mental health services is essential.
• Ability to work with individuals with complex mental health issues.
• Skills in risk assessment and care planning.

Responsibilities

• Provide evidence-based care and interventions for service users.
• Conduct complex person-centred assessments and evaluations.
• Mentor less experienced staff and support workers.

Skills

Clinical assessment skills

Team collaboration

Culturally competent care

Mentorship

Education

Relevant professional qualification

Job description

We are looking to recruit 3 Band 6 Intensive Outreach Clinicians between Enfield South Integrated South Core CMHT & Enfield North Integrated Core CMHT. The Post holder will work as a member of the Intensive Outreach Pathway within a multi-disciplinary Community Mental Health Core Team. The post holder will be responsible for working to the requirements of the service operational policy and strategy to provide safe, evidence based, effective, culturally competent care, delivered in a timely manner to service users. The post holder will contribute to governance and audit within the team, ensuring that team members are supported and developed to their potential and that new team members are comprehensively inducted and successfully integrated into the team. The post holder will formulate co‑produced Dialog + Care plans, providing highly skilled specialist interventions and care to service users with complex mental health problems, requiring intensive support to ensure sustained engagement. The post holder will be expected to carry out other duties assigned by their Team Manager, which are appropriate to the professional competences and experience of the post holder.

Responsibilities

• To work as Intensive Outreach Clinician within the team in the planning, delivery, co‑ordination and evaluation of assessments and formulation
• To work closely and collaboratively with other members of the team including Psychologists, Medical professionals and other Allied Professionals to provide optimal
• To carry out complex person‑centred assessments.
• To ensure that all care offered is evidence based and all interventions take into account specific physical, cultural, psychological and spiritual needs of service users.
• To assess care needs, devise care programmes, packages of care including Risk assessment, Dialog+ and implement and evaluate these in collaboration with individual service users and their carers.
• To support and mentor less experienced staff, support workers and students from related professional backgrounds who are on placement within the team.
• To undertake duties designed to extend clinical and expertise as delegated by the Team Manager when required.
• To undertake comprehensive intensive outreach monitoring for service users on caseload.

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.

Location Flexibility

• 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.

Benefits

• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme.
• Excellent internal staff network.