Assistant Practitioner North Islington Core Team | North London NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 14 Ionawr 2026 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £33,094 - £36,195 Per Annum Inc HCAS |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 13 Chwefror 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | London, N7 8US |
| Cwmni: | Camden And Islington NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7735145/455-NLFT-0523-A |
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This is an exciting opportunity to join an high performing and experienced mental health team. The North Islington Core Team are based near Holloway Road in Islington and provide mental health care and support to over 400 service users in Islington. The Team works with people with psychosis living in North Islington.
We are looking to recruit an Assistant Practitionerwho shares our passion to strive towards excellence in people’s mental health and social care and who affiliates with our Trust’s culture pillars where staff and service users feel safe, valued and are empowered.
As an assistant practitioneryou will be responsible for supporting the team to deliver a range of health and/or social care interventions. You will have a caseload of patients and will take a lead on supporting carers, which will include carrying out an assessment under the Care Act. You will be supported by a multidisciplinary team.
We are a busy and dynamic service and caseloads are reflective of this. This requires you to have good organisational skills and an ability to work flexibly as part of the team. The role involves visiting patients at home and in the community.
You’ll be able to demonstrate experience in working with adults’ mental health care and have good communication and interpersonal skills. You should have some understanding of the wider health and social care system. Being computer literate is a must and you have to be able to use Word, Excel and other relevant IT systems.
Organisational Position Working as a member of a multidisciplinary Mental Health Team the post holder will be responsible for providing individual assessment, identified clinical interventions and direct care to service users with mental health problems under supervision of registered professionals. They will be responsible for a small defined caseload while also coworking with registered professionals and they will support to formulate appropriate care and treatment plans. The post holder will be expected to carry out other duties assigned by their supervisor or Team Manager, which are appropriate to the competences and experience of the post holder
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.
1. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
1. 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 tomeet the needs of the Trust you may berequiredfrom time to time to work atdifferent locationsto your normal place of work. This may mean that youare required towork 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 basi
We are looking to recruit anAssistant Practitionerwho shares our passion to strive towards excellence in people’s mental health and social care and who affiliates with our Trust’s culture pillars where staff and service users feel safe, valued and are empowered.
As anassistant practitioneryou will be responsible for supporting the team to deliver a range of health and/or social care interventions. You will have a small caseload of patients who require low-level or preventative interventions. You will be supported by a multidisciplinary team.
We are a busy and dynamic service and caseloads are reflective of this. This requires you to have good organisational skills and an ability to work flexibly as part of the team. The role involves visiting patients at home and you therefore must be able to get around Islington using Public Transport and/or walking/cycling.
You’ll be able to demonstrate experience in working with adults’ mental health care and have good communication and interpersonal skills. You should have some understanding of the wider health and social care system. Being computer literate is a must and you have to be able to use Word, Excel and other relevant IT systems.
Please also refer to Job description document attached.
This advert closes on Wednesday 28 Jan 2026