Clinical Specialist Nurse | North London NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 16 Chwefror 2026 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £46,419 - £55,046 Per annum including HCAS (pro-rata) |
| Oriau: | Rhan Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 18 Mawrth 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | London, NW5 3EG |
| Cwmni: | Camden And Islington NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7810015/455-NLFT-0289-B |
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Working as a member of a multidisciplinary community Mental Health Team the post holder will be responsible for providing individual assessment, identified clinical interventions and direct care to service users with a primary diagnosis of psychosis. The team is looking to recruit an individual who can work autonomously within a multi-disciplinary team structure.
The post holder may also, on occasions, be requested to undertake management tasks, deputising for the Team manager as required, and will take a lead on mentoring and supervising others within their service area.
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 users recovery and re-enablement.
The post holder will be responsible for a defined caseload and they will formulate appropriate specific, highly specialist care and treatment plans; providing highly skilled and specialist interventions and care to service users with complex mental health problems.
Applicants should be able to demonstrate a sound knowledge base of health and psycho-social interventions for service users with a diagnosis of psychosis and complex needs. Team members benefit from a supportive team environment with clinical supervision, peer support and training
The successful applicant will be a qualified nurse with experience of supporting individuals (and their families) with psychosis and Bipolar Affective Disorder in a community setting. You will be expected to provide strong nurse leadership, with an emphasis on care planning, partnership working and risk management.
The post will involve providing care coordination and nursing interventions to a defined caseload of service users as well as contributing to the team depot clinic and duty rotas.
The successful post holder must have a passion for delivering high quality care and for supporting, managing and improving nursing functions in the team, including improving the physical health outcomes for our service users.
Candidates will be well supported by the R&R Management Team, the Community Matron and the nursing Directorate.
For further details / informal visits contact: Stephen Bradley (Service Manager) on 020 3317 6700
Catherine Namonda (Team Manager) on 020 3317 6715
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.
• To be responsible for providing expert care in an area of designated
expertise, in accordance professional conduct
• To embody a population health approach to the role, contributing expertise to
the team’s community programme
• To supervise, appraise, support and guide Nursing Associate(s) and/or Mental
Health Practitioner(s).
• To provide expert, autonomous and specialist clinical practice within a
multidisciplinary team and to include initial assessment and formulation using
a range of mental health or other specialist tools.
• To do make appropriate judgements when required to do so about own
caseload.
• To assess, plan, implement, and evaluate care in negotiation with service
users, carers, and other services, considering the needs of a diverse
community.
• To undertake key working responsibilities.
• To apply a range of therapeutic modalities, using evidence-based
interventions in accordance with the requirements of service line care
pathways.
• To contribute to multidisciplinary team decisions at the point of discharge
and or transfer of the service user.
Better Mental Health. Better Lives. Better Communities.
• To participate in and provide a specialist nursing perspective to
multidisciplinary team meetings/case discussions.
• To maintain contemporaneous records to the standard required by the trust
and the relevant professional body.
• To assess and manage risk on a continuous basis, in line with Trust policy.
• To coproduce support with service users and with their consent, where
appropriate, seek the cooperation of friends, relatives, carers.
• To provide and support other members of staff in their assessment and
management of service user care needs through reviewing initial data
collection; monitoring of their progress; feedback; discussion and reports at
support planning
• To identify carers and to offer carers assessments and review carers care
plans.
• To support the assessment of physical health care needs of service users
by team members and ensure that on-going physical health monitoring /
review of service users takes place.
• To provide relevant information for service users relating to health
promotion and wellbeing.
This is not an exhaustive list, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.
This advert closes on Sunday 1 Mar 2026