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We have been working together in a Partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust for some time, with a single Chair and Chief Executive since 2021 and single Executive Team since 2022. We launched our North London Mental Health Partnership Strategy in May 2023 and in July 2023 our Boards agreed that coming together to create one new Trust is best for our service users, our staff and our local communities. Subject to final approvals, we will be formally established as one new Trust on 1 October 2024.

Our new trust website is: Home | North London Mental Health Partnership

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to work within the secondary adult mental health community services at a time of innovation and service development. This role will be involved, as part of the wider team, in helping to adapt the existing service within the new transformation process. This 
process is in response to the NHS 5-year plan to develop mental health services round the Primary  Care Networks and provides new opportunities which include developing partnership working with the voluntary sector, working more closely with GP practices and developing more innovative, community based and holistic ways of working. There are three posts available – one in each of the three, Core Community Mental Health Teams in Barnet. 
The post holder will be responsible for participating and assisting in the delivery of care/services to patients, service users and carers as part of the Core Community Mental Health Team, working under the direct or indirect supervision of a registered member of staff. You will be responsible for 
carrying out practical tasks, identified as part of the service users’ care plan or care pathways. The post holder will complete carers assessments with the support of appropriate staff. 

The post holder will provide supportive care management to an allocated group of service users as delegated by the Team Manager or registered practitioner.

Main duties of the job

MAIN TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Undertake a range of duties which involve direct patient care, in some cases under supervision following competency assessment 

• Assist in the coordination of care delivery for a case load of service users in the community with 
  mental health problems including those with severe and enduring mental illness under the 
  supervision of a registered professional, in close collaboration with the Directorate, psychiatric 
  multidisciplinary team, service users and other community agencies. 
• Work under the supervision of qualified staff that supervise their caseload but they work 
  independently with their service users.
• Contribute to the monitoring of the physical environment ensuring that it is safe and conducive to 
  the therapeutic work of the unit/community setting.
• Have informed knowledge and understanding in the psychological, social, physical, and spiritual 
  needs of all service users and carers
• Actively participate in the care and rehabilitation of service users and carers as per the plan of care determined by the MDT
• Maintain clear, timely, comprehensive and contemporaneous written clinical records on all patients in accordance with Trust policies

Working for our organisation

Why choose to join the Partnership?

• We believe that by working together, our two Trusts can achieve more for the residents of North Central London and our patients than we can by working apart.
• Deliver the best care using the most up-to-date practise in supporting those with mental health illnesses.
• Transforming and creating a positive environment for our service users, staff and visitors.
• Creating and working together to become a great place to work for all our staff.
• We offer flexible working, a wide range of health and wellbeing initiatives, NHS Pension and so much more.
• Generous Annual Leave Allowance
• NHS Discounts in a large variety of retail stores and services.
• We have excellent internal staff network support

The postholder will need to be comfortable working in an environment of complex matrix management arrangements and will at all times behave and align with our Trusts’ values and cultural pillars:

• We are kind
• We are respectful
• We work together
• We keep things simple
• We empower
• We are proudly diverse

In order to meet the needs of the new Partnership services 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, Enfield and Harringay Trust and Camden and Islington Trust. 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.