Specialist Practitioner

Transformationunitgm; London; On-site; GBP 44,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

Join North London NHS Foundation Trust as a Specialist Practitioner, where you'll work within the Complex Depression Anxiety and Trauma Service. This role offers the opportunity to deliver holistic care to individuals facing treatment-resistant depression and anxiety, while being part of a supportive, dynamic team committed to improving mental health services in the region.

Qualifications

• Registered Social Worker, Nurse, or Occupational Therapist.
• Experience working with individuals with mental health difficulties.
• Ability to engage in assessments and develop care plans.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for managing a caseload of service users.
• Conduct individual assessments and deliver tailored interventions.
• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to develop effective care plans.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Compassion

Teamwork

Autonomy

Education

Registered Social Worker

Nursing qualification

Occupational Therapy qualification

Job description

Employer North London NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Lowther Road Integrated Mental Health Hub Town London Salary £44,806 - £53,134 Per annum Including HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 17/06/2025 23:59

NHS AfC: Band 6

Thank you for your interest for the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT), it is an exciting time to join us and being 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.

As a Specialist Practitioner working in the Complex Depression Anxiety and Trauma Service (CDAT) you would be part of a multi-disciplinary team providing a holistic service for people with treatment-resistant depression and anxiety disorders. The CDAT team provides on-going assessment of need, multiple problem formulation, psychological treatment and case management. CDAT aims to provide the best quality services, in a framework of mutual co-operation and respect to raise the quality of life for service users and their families and to maximise their potential and increase their life chances. This is an exciting chance to work in a cohesive and dynamic team with multiple learning and professional development opportunities once in post.

Main duties of the job

As a Specialist Practitioner you would undertake MDT and individual assessments and manage an allocated caseload. You would be responsible for formulation and care planning, with input from the wider team and then implementing social, psychological and medical interventions to meet individual need. You would need a Social Work, Nursing or Occupational Therapy qualification. You would need to be a team player, curious, compassionate, willing to learn and take on challenges.

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:

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 offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Working as a member of the non-psychotic service line based within the CDAT team the post holder will be responsible for providing individual assessment, identified clinical interventions and direct care to service users with complex Depression and Anxiety disorders.

As a Specialist Practitioner the post holder will be responsible for ensuring that they understand and operate to the requirements of the service operational policy and strategy, and that safe, evidence based, effective, culturally competent care is delivered in a timely manner to service users. They will contribute to governance and audit within the team. The focus of the role will be that of individual assessment, intervention and evaluation of treatment, delivered within the framework of NICE guidelines, evidence based best practice and to maximise service user’s recovery and re-enablement. They will be responsible for a defined caseload and they will formulate appropriate specific specialist care and treatment plans; providing skilled specialist intervention and care to service users with complex mental health problems.

Main Responsibilities

1) To be responsible for a caseload of service users.

2) To engage with service users in delivering short term interventions and offer longer term, goal-centred interventions through formulating appropriate, specialist care and treatment plans.

3) undertake assessment and review of new referrals.

4) To contribute to MDT discussion and share specialist knowledge within the team.

5) To cover Duty on a rota basis.

6) To develop professional relationships with other key stakeholders in the service users’ network (i.e. Primary Care, Core Teams, Inpatient and Crisis services, Housing, Carers, Employment, Education etc) and interface with these to support the service user, as well as planning for step-down.

Person specification

• Registered Social Worker
• Experience working in a specialist capacity with people experiencing Mental Health Difficulties
• Competence in using IT
• Demonstrable well-developed interpersonal skills
• Demonstrable ability to adapt to change
• Able to work autonomously and to deputise for senior staff in a variety of roles when required to do so.
• Ability to maintain boundaries and form positive therapeutic relationships with service users and carers
• Demonstrate an ability to liaise with other agencies and carers involved.
• Demonstrate a sound knowledge and experience in relation to factors that cause mental illness or addictions together with evidence based best practice.
• Demonstrate a clear understanding of the Mental Health legislation or legislation relevant to substance misuse services, its application and use in practice.
• Demonstrate an understanding of risk together with an ability to evaluate and contain risk with reference to the individual, staff and carers.
• Demonstrate a sound knowledge and understanding of the needs and difficulties of people with complex mental health and/or substance misuse problems
• Ability to work as part of a team and be respectful of and prepared to support colleagues when needed.
• Willingness to learn, professional curiosity and motivation to continue professional development.
• Evidence of further post-registration relevant training
• Demonstrable skill of implementing change processes
• Experience of working with People who have Complex Depression and Anxiety Disorders
• Post-qualification training, i.e. AMHP, BIA, CBT, SCM
• Experience of managing change processes

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.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.