Job summary
To provide effective and timely care within a multidisciplinary team setting for Older People who present with functional and/or organic mental health problems. To assess care needs, devise care plans based on dialog+, carry out risk assessment and implement and evaluate these in collaboration with individual service users and also their carers, where appropriate. To support and mentor less experienced staff, support workers and teach students from related professional backgrounds who are on placement with the CMHT. To undertake duties designed to extend clinical and managerial expertise as delegated by the Deputy CMHT manager when required. This will include deputising in the absence of the Principle Practitioner.

Main duties of the job

• Carry overall responsibility for the management of a caseload in the role of Key worker /care manager, as defined by the Dialog+ approach and other government and local directives. Ensure that the service of the CMHT i.e. nursing, social care, occupational therapy and psychology is carried out effectively within a multidisciplinary framework and in collaboration with other agencies. Maintain contact with service users on their caseload during periods of admission, including attendance at MDT meetings. To take lead in the planning and implementation of the client's re-integration back into the community.
• Provide service users and their carers with a service that is culturally sensitive and gives due consideration to any special needs.
• Provide therapeutic interventions by means of assessment and ongoing treatment in various settings. Design care programmes in line with risk assessment and psychosocial needs. In consultation with MDT colleagues discharge service users in line with Trust and CMHT policies and procedures.
• Participate in the Duty System as the Duty Officer or 'Backup' providing a Direct Access mental health service to the community. Be responsible for the screening of all new referrals, arrange assessments, provide advice and refer to other agencies as appropriate.

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.

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.

Job responsibilities
Input and maintain clear, comprehensive and contemporaneous written record on all service users in accordance with NMC standards and Trust policies, utilising I.T. skills and knowledge to access and input all information and data to the RIO case management electronic / integrated notes and Framework I (social services computer system) as required.

Screen referrals received via intake (single point of access) in consultation with the designated duty manager. Bringing circumstances of an urgent nature to the immediate attention of the senior practitioner.

Provide formal, ongoing clinical supervision and caseload management supervision to less experienced members of the CMHT and students on placement who are allocated cases. This includes carrying overall responsibility for junior practitioners caseloads.

Undertake involvement of formal and informal training and team development for qualified and unqualified staff, including students.

Person Specification
Relevant Qualification

• Essential: Years Experience
• Desirable: Experience of coordination and overseeing referral management systems

Working with Older Adults with chronic mental illness

• Essential: Previous experience of working in community mental health services.
• Desirable: Experience of coordination and overseeing referral management systems

Familiar with duty system

• Essential: Understand duty management
• Desirable: Experience of coordination and overseeing referral management systems

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).

Employer details
Employer name: North London NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Victoria Unit. St Anns Hospital, St. Ann's Road., London, N15 3TH, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/

For questions about the job, contact:
Deputy Service Manager: Imran Khan
Email: Imran.khan14@nhs.net
Telephone: 02087026300

North London NHS Foundation Trust is committed to equality of opportunity and promoting diversity.