Job Description

Islington Community Mental Health Services are undergoing widespread, innovative transformation. North London Foundation Trust are at the forefront of this transformation, developing a more holistic, recovery oriented, biopsychosocial approach to supporting people with mental illnesses, 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 purpose of this post is to lead on one of the pathways in the Locality Team.



This Band 7 Psychosis Pathway Lead Nurse post is essential for delivering a safe, effective, and sustainable service. The role provides the clinical leadership required to oversee complex triage functions, supervise multidisciplinary staff, maintain operational stability, and uphold patient safety. Without this post, the risks to service users and the wider system are substantial and immediate. Recruiting to this role ensures the Trust can meet its clinical governance requirements, transformation goals, and commitment to high-quality community mental health care.



This post is essential to ensure the safe, effective, and sustainable delivery of community mental health services. The team requires a permanent senior clinician who can provide consistent leadership, clinical oversight, and operational management. The role is critical for maintaining service quality, ensuring staff are supported, and meeting the Trust's expectations around productivity, supervision standards, and patient care.



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/Communications

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.



Internal Relationships

Colleagues and Co-workers Senior Managers

External Relationships

Partners such as VCO's Other Mental Health providers in the locality Other NHS Organisations Local GP's Adult Social Care * London Borough of Camden