Overview
We are looking for skilled and dynamic Clinical Specialists with a passion for delivering outstanding patient care, committed to least restrictive practice and acting in the patient’s best interest.
The role requires stamina, resilience, and the ability to work in a joined‑up way with Trust services and acute hospital colleagues, while providing compassionate and trauma‑informed care to patients at their most vulnerable.
Key Responsibilities
- Complete trauma informed psychosocial assessments and develop safe and effective collaborative plans with service users.
- Have theoretical knowledge of mental health liaison emergency and ward‑based work, applying a wide range of theoretical approaches and a variety of clinical skills suitable to the needs of individual patients.
- Take direct responsibility for carrying out specialist assessments, including risk assessments, unsupervised.
- Develop, implement, evaluate, and document specialist care.
- Use PMVA techniques to prevent and manage escalation to reduce harm to self and others.
- Work closely with NCL wide crisis services and maintain good working relationships with all other CRTs to ensure least restrictive practice and positive outcomes.
- Make autonomous decisions regarding admission and discharge of patients based on complex clinical analysis and agreed protocols, and guide junior doctors on rotation with the service.
- Provide a consultation‑liaison and assessment service to clinicians and clinical teams within the general hospital, giving specialist advice on care, treatment, and patient management issues.
Benefits
- We develop and retain staff through leadership behaviours, managers programmes, and many more opportunities.
- We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
- Enjoy NHS discounts, generous annual leave, and an NHS pension scheme.
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
In order to meet the needs of the Trust, you may be required from time to time to work at different locations within Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington, or other locations as considered reasonable and necessary.
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