Senior Practitioner | North London NHS Foundation Trust

Camden And Islington NHS Foundation Trust; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health service provider in London seeks a senior mental health practitioner to work within the police and court liaison service. This role involves assessment and case management for individuals in custody or court, collaborating across various sites. Applicants should have relevant mental health qualifications and be able to work flexibly in diverse locations, contributing to enhanced mental health care within the criminal justice system.

Benefits

NHS Discounts

Generous annual leave

NHS pension scheme

Health and wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• Experience in mental health settings, particularly in police or court environments.
• Ability to provide clinical supervisory oversight.
• Understanding of vulnerabilities in a criminal justice context.

Responsibilities

• Screen individuals for mental health issues and vulnerabilities.
• Provide ongoing assessment and case management.
• Facilitate collaboration between police, courts, and mental health services.

Skills

Mental health assessment

Crisis intervention

Case management

Communication skills

Education

Relevant mental health qualification

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a forward thinking and motivated senior mental health practitioner to work within the police and court liaison and diversion service across north and central London sites which are part of the North London Foundation Trust. The post holder will remain flexible working across the north and central London sites which include police custody suites, Magistrate’s and Crown Court’s and offer a clinical supervisory oversight function for a third sector community outreach partnership. Working alongside the Marine policing unit and Mental Health Treatment Requirement (MHTR) court orders are also part of the overall role.

The service currently runs 7 days per week which includes bank holidays and weekends covering across the hours of 7am – 10pm. The service provides provision at the following sites and practitioners are expected to work across all sites.

• Police Custody Suites: Wood Green, Colindale, Islington, BTP Islington, Holborn
• Highbury Magistrates Court and Wood Green Crown Court
• Marine Policing Unit

The service is a coordinated and integrated approach by secondary care mental health services to identify, triage and engage those in police custody and courts that present with either existing or acute health or social vulnerabilities, and to provide earlier intervention within the non-custodial pathway. This service is for people of all age and vulnerabilities and offers a comprehensive pathway service for those entering and exiting the criminal justice system.

A team of autonomous mental health liaison workers are based within police custody suites and courts across Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey feeding into Wood Green Crown Court and Highbury Corner Magistrates Court. There is also a community link service across the aforementioned areas where staff are expected to provide a supervisory service. There is an expectation for staff to work across all services within the contract specification with support and supervision provided by the Clinical and Operational Leads.

The role is to screen individuals identified as having mental health ilness, and any other vulnerabilities, provide on-going assessment (including awareness and understanding of other factors including physical health, use of drugs and alcohol, learning difficulties and speech, language and communication issues), immediate case management and to formalise timely and sensitive sharing of information between police, court and mental health services.

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:

• We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
• With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
• We will offergreat placesto work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.

Why NLFT?

• We develop andretainour 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 annualleaveand 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,Haringeyor 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.

Please see the attached Job Description and Person specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.

This advert closes on Monday 1 Dec 2025