Job summary
To work as a member of the multidisciplinary Wellbeing Clinic the role will require the post holder to:

• To provide effective care and specialist advice for people with psychosis and complex mental health needs and their carers, in order to support their wellbeing and recovery. including physical health and side effect monitoring
• To liaise with other agencies in planning and assessing programmes of care
• Provide formal, on-going clinical supervision and caseload management supervision to junior and less experienced community mental health staff, as directed.
• To undertake duties designed to extend clinical and managerial expertise as delegated by the manager when required. This will include deputising in the absence of the Senior Practitioner.

Main duties of the job

• Carry overall responsibility for the management of a caseload of clients that are on long acting injections and clozapine.
• Deliver effective care and treatment that is carried out within a multidisciplinary framework and in collaboration with other agencies.
• Involve service users and their carers in planning care that includes all of their individual and diverse needs.
• Design individual programmes of care collaboratively with patients to maximize self-management and social inclusion and reflect their own goals and aspirations. Review and adjust plans according to changing service user needs.
• Offer physical health checks, including phlebotomy and ECGs
• Provide service users and their carers with clear and intelligible information which will assist them in making informed decisions about their treatment and care.
• Monitor medication side effects and side-effects, in accordance with NMC Standards and Trust policies.
• Maintain clear, comprehensive and contemporaneous clinical records on all patients in response to personally generated clinical observations, in accordance with professional standards and Trust policies.
• Prepare and present clinical reports as required.

About us
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.

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

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.

Person Specification
Registered Mental Health Nurse

• Essential: Registered Mental Health Nurse
• Desirable: Registered Mental health Nurse

Experience working with mental health

• Essential: 1 years experience
• Desirable: 1 years experience

To be able to work in clinics

• Essential: to be able to work in clinics
• Desirable: 1 years experience

Disclosure and Barring Service Check: This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship: Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration: Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).