Senior Intensive Outreach Clinician

Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

A local healthcare provider is seeking two Senior Intensive Outreach Clinicians in Greater London. The role involves leading clinical services, ensuring quality care for service users, and supporting treatment access. Candidates must have an appropriate professional qualification and substantial mental health experience. This position emphasizes teamwork and effective communication to foster a supportive environment for both staff and patients.

Benefits

NHS pension scheme

Generous annual leave

Employee health and wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• Professional qualification with current professional registration required.
• Extensive clinical experience in mental health is essential.
• Ability to lead a team and manage complex clinical decisions.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership to ensure delivery of high-quality clinical services.
• Coordinate holistic support for service users within the pathway.
• Ensure compliance with governance and quality processes.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Empathy

Clinical decision making

Teamwork

Education

Professional Qualification (RMN, OT, SW)

Evidence of mental health training

Educated to degree level

Job description

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Thank you for your interest in the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). This is an exciting time to join us and be part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we:

• Collaborate at every level by living our values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
• Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
• Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
• Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
• Ensure that research, quality improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
• Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do

We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.

The North London Way to deliver: Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.

Our trust website is: https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/

Job Overview

We are looking for two Senior Intensive Outreach Clinician for Enfield South Core CMHT & Enfield North Core CMHT

This job description is written as an indication of the nature and scope of duties and responsibilities. Additional competencies may be required to fulfil the needs of specific areas and client groups. It is not intended as a fully descriptive list and does not include specific skills or therapeutic interventions that may be required of the specialist service area. The post holder will be expected to carry out other duties assigned by the Team Manager, which are appropriate to the grade.

Service Aims

• Offer early assessment, diagnosis and treatment of service users who meet the criteria for Assertive Community Treatment.
• Provide person-centred, individual, culturally sensitive care, with an emphasis on increasing stability, skill development and developing social roles.
• Work within a Trauma Informed Approach and recognise that service users requiring Assertive Community Treatment may have experienced trauma in their lives.
• Collaboratively support service users who have difficulties engaging with treatment.
• Maximise both symptomatic and social recovery for service users who meet the criteria for Assertive Community Treatment through effective engagement with service users.

Main Duties of the Job

• Provide pathway leadership, ensuring that there is effective coordination between staff and disciplines working within the pathway.
• Ensure that service users experience timely high-quality holistic wrap‑around support appropriate to their needs within the pathway.
• Ensure that the pathway is well connected to partners and services within the community and is fully integrated within the pathway offer.
• Coordinate transition in and out of the pathway, ensuring support and focus on holistic needs.
• Record service provision using agreed tools.
• Capture agreed data to measure quality and effective delivery of the service.
• Oversee governance and quality processes within the pathway.
• Provide supervision to pathway staff as agreed with the Service Manager.
• Ensure effective internal and external communication processes within the pathway.
• Represent the pathway in relevant team and division meetings and processes.

Please read Job Description & Person Specification for more information.

Working for our organisation

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 a supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.

Why NLFT?

• 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.

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.

Clinical Responsibilities

• Provide leadership to the MDT to ensure the delivery of high quality and safe clinical services.
• Ensure that the physical health care and other holistic needs of service users are assessed by team members.
• Work with the Service Manager to deliver Integrated Governance requirements and be responsible for delivering effective governance within the team, including contributing to the writing of policy and procedure documents relating to clinical practice.
• Ensure full compliance of team members with key mechanisms to support clinical delivery including records management, health and social care data entry, incident reporting, serious untoward incident review and complaints.
• Implement practices that assess, determine, and support learning and development, clinical supervision, managerial supervision and pathway processes.
• Provide clinical supervision.
• Provide clinical leadership to a busy pathway within a locality, working alongside other leaders in the team to ensure high-quality service that always has service users at its heart.
• Support the clinical leadership across the locality and Islington as a whole, ensuring effective flow, retention of specialisms and holistic patient support.
• Lead complex clinical decision making for referrals and support individuals to navigate through the Locality Teams to receive the right care at the right time via effective joint decision making and regular consultation across the Locality Teams.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential Criteria

• Professional Qualification (RMN, OT, SW, other) with current professional registration with relevant body.
• Evidence of mental health training.
• Evidence of continued relevant professional development.
• Educated to degree level or equivalent gained through experience.

Skills & Abilities

Essential Criteria

• Ability to lead a team, firm consensus and communicate effectively across disciplines and levels.
• Listen and communicate effectively at all levels.
• Demonstrate excellent written communication to enable completion of records, reports etc.
• Demonstrate empathy, compassion and patience.
• Work in a way which enables service users to obtain/retain responsibility for their decision making, and supports staff in this area.
• Able to provide strong leadership for the team and promote good team working.
• Able to supervise and appraise staff, including managing performance.
• Able to create and support innovative solutions to empower service users and enable them to live independently.
• Able to manage a key working system, ensuring effective assessment of needs and strengths, creation and implementation of support plans.
• Able to work unsupervised and manage own time effectively.
• Able to form positive therapeutic relationships with service users and carers.
• Skilled in managing challenging behaviours with accredited breakaway and de‑escalation training.

Experience & Knowledge

Essential Criteria

• Extensive clinical experience in a mental health.
• Ability to support others with complex clinical decision making and lead MDT discussion on this topic.
• Demonstrate high level of flexibility and ability to travel across the boroughs to engage service users in diverse community settings.

Desirable Criteria

• Demonstrate recent experience of working in a primary care setting.
• Recent experience in a managerial position.

Personal Qualities

Essential Criteria

• Understand Equal Opportunities and Valuing Diversity policies and able to implement these.
• A keenness to make a positive contribution to improving the quality of life for people with mental health problems.
• Understand Health and Safety issues, including personal safety, working with risks and reporting incidents and accidents.
• Knowledge and understanding of legislation and national policies relating to mental health, independent living, protection of vulnerable adults, safeguarding children and housing.
• Able to manage with integrity, openness and honesty.

References will be required to cover your last 3 years of employment/training. One has to be from your current or most recent employer and the others from your previous employer. The references should be from persons with management responsibility or HR.

If you have been unemployed for a period of four years or more, please give the details of your last employer and one character referee of your choice (not members of your family). If more applicable, references will be requested from your teacher or head of faculty. Please ensure you provide full contact details.

Vacancies that are advertised as Fixed Term Contracts will also be available as secondment opportunities for substantive internal staff.

Please be aware that your documents eg. Passport/NI Card, will be electronically scanned using Home Office accredited Verification System.

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts, we will close vacancies before the stated closing date once the first 50 applications are received. Therefore, please apply as soon as possible.

All non-medical posts with the Trust are subject to a probationary period of six months, during which time you will be required to demonstrate to the Trust's satisfaction, your suitability for the position in which you will be employed.

Should you not hear from us within three working weeks of the closing date for this post, then regretfully in this instance, you have not been shortlisted.

By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at improving efficiencies within the NHS both to make costs savings for NHS organisations but also to save you time when your employment transfers.

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Application numbers

This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.

Documents to download

• Job Description & Person Specification (PDF, 416.4KB)
• Functional Requirements (DOCX, 526.2KB)
• A comprehensive guide for candidates (PDF, 875.7KB)

Our trust website is: https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/