Assistant Practitioner | North London NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	05 January 2026
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£32,199 - £34,876 per annum Inclu HCAS
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	04 February 2026
Location:	London, N1 0YL
Company:	Camden And Islington NHS Foundation Trust
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	7714943/455-NLFT-0445-A

Summary

The post holder, reporting to a senior clinician or their nominated deputy, is responsible for participating and assisting in the delivery of assessment, care, or care services to service users as part of a multi-disciplinary team. They will carry out a range of practical tasks, including direct service user care, identified as part of the service users’ care plan or care pathways. The focus of the role will be that of supporting ‘social inclusion’, recovery and service user engagement.

The post holder will provide direct support to an allocated group of service users as allocated and delegated by the pathway lead or a more senior member of staff. They may, under supervision, take on a key worker role or specified elements of this role for a designated group of service users.

The post holder is expected to establish and maintain positive interpersonal relationships with other staff members characterised by trust, mutual respect, and open, honest communication.
• To maintain confidentiality of information, in accordance with Trust policy.
• To contribute to effective communication process with service users, carers,
family, friends, and staff colleagues. Always acting in a dignified and
responsible manner with service users, their family, visitors, carers, and
colleagues; listening carefully and responding using appropriate language and
accessible communication methods and skills which acknowledge cultural
differences and professional boundaries.
• To communicate appropriate and accurate information to and from other
departments/service lines as required.
• To attend and participate in team meetings and contribute ideas to multiprofessional team discussions.
• To use and complete care plans, pathway documents and RiO progress notes
appropriate and in a timely manner.
• To work in ways that support shared responsibility within the team,
demonstrating support, respect, and courtesy towards colleagues.
• To ensure that all complaints or compliments received are dealt with in accordance with Trust policy.

Internal and external relationships.

Clinical responsibilities according to Job Description and Job Specification.

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 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.

As above and below (summary).

Professional Registration
If you are employed in an area of work which requires membership of a professional
body in order to practice (e.g., Nursing & Midwifery Council for nurses), it is a
condition precedent of your employment to maintain membership of such a
professional body. It is also your responsibility to comply with the relevant body’s
code of practice. Your manager will be able to advise you on which, if any,
professional body of which you must be a member.
You are required to advise the Trust if your professional body in any way limits or
changes the terms of your registration.
Failure to remain registered or to comply with the relevant code of practice may
result in temporary downgrading, suspension from duty and/or disciplinary action,
which may result in the termination of your employment.
If you are required to have registration with a particular professional body or to have
specific qualifications you must notify your manager on appointment of such fact and
provide him or her with documentary evidence of them before your employment
commences or, at the latest, on your first day of employment. Furthermore,
throughout your employment with the Trust, you are required on demand by your
manager to provide him or her with documentary evidence of your registration with
any particular professional body or in respect of any required qualifications.
Risk Management
All Trust employees are accountable, through the terms and conditions of their
employment, professional regulations, clinical governance and statutory health and
safety regulations, and are responsible for reporting incidents, being aware of the
risk management strategy and emergency procedures and attendance at training as
required.
All staff have a responsibility to manage risk within their sphere of responsibility. It is
a statutory duty to take reasonable care of their own safety and the safety of others
who may be affected by acts or omissions.
All managers throughout the organisation have a responsibility to ensure that
policies and procedures are followed, that staff receive appropriate training, that a
local risk register is developed and monitored on a quarterly basis and any changes
reported to the Clinical Governance Committee and Risk and Assurance Committee.
Managers are responsible for implementing and monitoring any identified risk
management control measures within their designated area/s and scope of
responsibility. In situations where significant risks have been identified and where
local control measures are considered to be potentially inadequate, managers are
responsible for bringing these risks to the attention of the Clinical Governance
Committee or Risk and Assurance Committee if resolution has not been satisfactorily
achieved.
Policies & Procedures.




This advert closes on Monday 19 Jan 2026