Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.

Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video

Job overview

This role gives the successful applicant the opportunity to act as the lead clinician in a dynamic mental health team and offer guidance, supervision and leadership to colleagues, including our team of care coordinators.

The role entails supporting our clients who are experiencing severe mental health difficulties towards recovery, by maintaining an empathetic and compassionate approach that is based on evidence based interventions and support.

Main duties of the job

Champion transformation and transition between all services, with the service user, family and network, ensuring service users and carers are fully engaged in the development and delivery of mental health services. Support the transformation of pathways to support the best pathway of care for all service users. Support staff on specific areas including Safeguarding concerns, adult social care reviews, allocation of work, health and safety etc. Lead by providing a range of interventions and assessments for service users, including those with multiple pathologies and complex mental health needs, taking into consideration their physical/cognitive/perceptual skills to identify their abilities and areas of difficulty. Ensure that risk assessment/management procedures are implemented including Safeguarding Children and Safeguarding Adult Procedures. This includes being able to act as Safeguarding Adults Manager (SAM) in Safeguarding cases and having the ability to make appropriate decisions. Provide specialist clinical advice on the suitability of various assessments and intervention methods. Supervising staff through caseload managing. Be responsible for organising and prioritising own caseload in the day to day allocation of work, whilst being able to work flexibly to meet the needs of their service users, relatives, carers and the service. Deputise when required in the absence of the Team/Service Lead and delegate appropriately to more junior team member

Working for our organisation

Probationary Period

This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).

Starting with NELFT

NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focussing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham Essex

Higher Cost Area Supplement

This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement - Outer London – 15% of basic salary, with a minimum of £4,551 and maximum of £5,735, pro rata for part time staff

Certificates of Sponsorship

Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for all job roles.Please check your eligibility under the UKVI points based system

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Come and be part of one of our integrated mental health & wellness teams in Waltham Forest. These new teams merge assessment and early intervention and recovery teams, removing the need for a two-tier service and no more hand off of patients from one service to another. We have had new investment in mental health worker posts, peer support workers posts and support time recovery workers to support the integrated team to work as one around the patient, their families and their social networks. Our vision is for this new investment to help start a new era in our mental healthcare provision at NELFT, making us among the most holistic, relational and person-centred services in the country.

Use of AI

Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

NVQ level 2 or equivalent standard of literacy and numeracy Qualification in social work, nursing or occupational therapy

Experience

Essential criteria

Minimum 4 years post qualification experience within a mental health setting Experience of working within community recovery or brief intervention services who treat and care for individuals in line with the Care programme approach and Care Act 2014 Extensive experience of undertaking complex mental state assessment, risk and needs assessment with service users with severe and enduring mental illness Experience of providing managerial and clinical supervision to junior colleagues

Knowledge

Essential criteria

An awareness of national policies and legislation and local drivers within mental health services Demonstrate specialist clinical knowledge and experience in the field of mental health and recovery Knowledge of the Mental Health Act 1983; Mental Capacity Act, Care Act 2014 and related codes of practice and guidance Understanding of Personalisation agendas , recovery models and evidence based practice

Skills

Essential criteria

Advanced clinical reasoning skills – ability to decide and establish appropriate action in allocation of workload and other clinical decisions Display effective communication skills- and an ability to work in a flexible proactive manner to respond to the needs of the Service. This will include managing complex and high-risk situations and demonstrating an enthusiastic, committed approach to service user involvement in care and delivery of service Leadership skills, including ability to manage staff and delegate work appropriately

Benefits

We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:

A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff. A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity. Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors. Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.