Job Description

Community Mental Health Services are undergoing widespread, innovative transformation and investment over the next two years. North London Foundation Trust are at the forefront of this transformation, developing a more holistic, recovery oriented, biopsychosocial approach to support people with their mental health, in partnership with primary care, other community NHS providers and the voluntary sector. The aim is to build support systems that reach the whole mental health population with a focus on prevention and sustained recovery delivered by multi-agency collaboration. Each population unit is based on the footprint of Primary Care Networks, bringing together NHS, voluntary sector, peer support and community organisations. These relationships will be central to the new community mental health model.



The Lead Practitioner will work with the Pathway Lead in ensuring the development and maintenance of high-quality care and support, based on a local community model which is person centred and holistic. The Lead Practitioner will bring their extensive knowledge and experience working with service users to their individual work and in supporting supervisees and the wider culture of the team.



Key Responsibilities

To be Primary Care Network oriented and aligned with a defined number of practice/teams.



To provide leadership in the team on a population health approach and assisting the Pathway Lead and senior colleagues in ensuring the development of processes to support the quality and effectiveness of the team in delivering the aims of the Clinical Strategy. To provide strengths focused, holistic and person-centred focused support to individuals and the community. To provide advice and liaison on mental health treatment to GPs. To provide supervision to Assistant Practitioners and other team members as required. To be actively involved developing and implementing effective first contact from the single point of access. To be responsible for the holistic assessment, risk management, safety planning, and evaluation of individual and holistic programmes of care as part of the multidisciplinary team. To be accountable and responsible for an independent caseload that reflects the priorities of the service. To support other team members and colleagues in managing service users by providing training, coaching, supervision, and advice support to develop core skills across the system. To use the agreed support planning tools and record keeping tools in work with service users. To lead on and actively participate in team meetings and multidisciplinary meetings.





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.



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.



Relationships/Communication



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 communicate with a range of professionals within the Trust and externally.

Internal Relationship



Professional Leads Managers Other disciplines

External Relationships



Commissioners GPs Voluntary Sector External agencies Other appropriate stakeholders