Job Description

Working as a member of a multidisciplinary Mental Health crisis team the post holder will be responsible for providing individual assessments of service users experiencing a mental health crisis, identified clinical interventions and direct care to service users with mental health problems. They will also undertake management tasks, deputising for the Team manager as required, and will take a lead on mentoring and supervising others within their service area.



A key role will be helping to develop the Home Treatment Team response to working with people with dementia. This will involve liaison with other providers, developing new operating protocols for the teams and providing training to other team members.



To be responsible for providing expert care in an area of designated expertise, in accordance with the NMC code of professional conduct



Initial assessment and formulation using a range of mental health or other specialist tools



When required to do so making appropriate judgements about the needs of service users in crisis.



To assess, plan, implement and evaluate care in negotiation with service users, carers and other services, considering the needs of a diverse community



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.



i) To take operational day to day management responsibility as required at team/service level using performance management systems to ensure the effective delivery of contract activity to agreed quality standards



ii) To work in conjunction with the Team Leader to deliver integrated governance requirements, this may include contributing to the developing of policy and guidelines which determine practice standards.



iii) To work with the Team Leader to ensure that staff are compliant with safeguarding requirements to protect children and vulnerable adults.



iv) To provide professional supervision and support for both clinically qualified staff, students and support staff, always ensuring clinical best practice.