Total 75 job vacancies by CNWL NHS Foundation Trust

A Vacancy at Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust.


An opportunity has arisen for a fixed term contract Band 6 Occupational Therapist to join the North Kensington and Chelsea Community Mental Health Hub. The post is from the starting date until November 2025. The team is located in W9 close to Westbourne Park station, with great transport links and serving the diverse community of North Kensington. We are looking for an Occupational Therapist with motivation and enthusiasm for working in a community mental health role.

The post holder will be a valued member of the team and will offer Occupational Therapy assessments and intervention for clients as well as supporting the overall work of the team by providing a named worker role for some clients and supporting the overall work of the team.

The team consists of medical staff, nurses, social workers, peer support workers, community navigators, arts therapies, employment specialists and psychology staff. There are two other Occupational Therapists in the team and the post holder will have opportunity to co-facilitate groups as a part of the psychosocial offer for the hub.

Although the post is fixed term, we will support the post holder in seeking a permanent position within CNWL when the fixed term period ends.

• To work as a Senior Occupational Therapist in the Adult Community Mental Health hub, providing a high quality service to clients.
• To provide OT assessments and intervention for clients under the care of the team.
• To provide functional assessments and home assessments for prescribing adapted equipment, making recommendations and for accommodation needs.
• To provide evidence based group interventions.
• To provide a case worker role for a designated number of clients with an occupational focus.
• To work within the multidisciplinary team and support the overall functioning of the team.
• To offer clinical placements to Occupational Therapy Students.
• To provide informal support and supervision to staff as needed.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.


The team will provide you will a friendly welcome and full induction which includes shadowing opportunities and visits to services.

The team is based in Hathaway House which is a purpose built building for CNWL services. The team work in an open plan space alongside other services so there is opportunity for connecting with others .

There are excellent training and development opportunities available within CNWL in addition to local in house CPD opportunities.

CNWL is very fortunate in having a long-established professional structure and this includes a Head of Therapies, an AHP associate director, Trust wide Professional Leads for all professional groups and borough and specialist professional leadership.

Personal and professional development is a high priority for the profession this enables us to invest in the development of our staff by providing excellent internal training as well as commissioning specialised external training and providing quality supervision. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion are a priority for us in CNWL we expect staff to be culturally competent, reflective and open to culturally diverse CPD opportunities.



Please see attached dob description for full details and don't hesitate to get in touch to find out more about the role.

Further information about the service can be found on this link:

Kensington and Chelsea North Community Mental Health Hub :: Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (cnwl.nhs.uk)


This advert closes on Wednesday 20 Nov 2024

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Job Summary:

Band 5 MHST EMHP/CWP Practitioners work closely with young people and families, parents and carer's and staff in schools and play an important contribution in how people experience our services. Band 5 Practitioner are expected to be kind and responsive but professional and informative and contribute to the quality of the services we provide by:

· keeping the people who using our services as safe as possible through the use of sound clinical skills and effective risk assessments

· ensuring the best possible clinical outcomes by using up-to-date skills and adhering to evidence-based policies and procedures

· ensuring the people using our services have a good experience by respecting, empowering and working in partnership with people throughout the care planning process

We believe that the best health care is delivered by multi-disciplinary teams working well together and in partnership with other teams and services to provide seamless care.

As a Band 5 Practitioners you will work alongside more experienced mental health practitioners, other health professionals and EMHP/CWP peers delivering a service to schools.

As a team you will work together to ensure that the team is working to the standards which the people using our services deserve.

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Applicants must be a qualified Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) or CYP Wellbeing Practitioner (CWP) or an equivalent qualification with experience of working with Children and Young People in Mental Health Services or Schools in the provision of individual and group treatments.

Brent Mental Health Support Team is looking for qualified EMHP, CWP, Wellbeing Practitioners with experience of working with Children and Young People in Mental Health Services in the delivery of individual and group treatments in school settings. We are seeking to appoint enthusiastic and dynamic practitioners who are creative in their approach and passionate about improving health outcomes for children and young people.

You will work alongside EMHPs, Mental Health Practitioners and a Senior Clinical Leads to support the wellbeing and mental health of children and young people based in participating schools in Brent.

Brent MHST works with children and young people with mild to moderate mental health presentations attending schools in the area.

CNWL are committed to progressing and supporting their staff with career development and training, and ensuring staff health and wellbeing and job satisfaction.

For an informal discussion please contact Amanda Pegrum (Team Lead) apegrum@nhs.net/07701294484 or Marta Krajewska (Senior Supervisor)m.krajewska1@nhs.net/07725497102

Central and North West London NHS Trust expects all Band 5 Practitioners to act in a way which shows you understand our core values and are willing to put them into practice with young people, their friend’s family, carers, teachers and other staff members.

As a Band 5 Practitioner we expect you to show COMPASSION, contribute to a caring and kind environment and recognise that what you do and say helps can make the lives of others better

We expect you to RESPECT everyone and acknowledge and welcome people’s differences rather than ignore them or see them as problematic.

We expect you to EMPOWER others and continually try to provide information, resources and support to help others make their own decisions and meet their own needs.

We expect you to work in PARTNERSHIP and behave in a way that shows that you recognise that commissioners and users of our services are the people who generate and pay for our work.

Key Deliverables:

To allow the post holder, with appropriate supervision, to work as an autonomous and responsible practitioner as their training affords and within the scope of their local job description, to engage in:

· Delivering low intensity evidence-based intervention for children and young people in education setting with mild to moderate mental health problems.

· Helping children and young people within these settings who present with more severe problems to rapidly access more specialist services.

· Supporting and facilitating staff in education settings to identify and where appropriate manage issues related to mental health and wellbeing.

· Working with and within education environments to afford better access to specialist mental health services.

· Group/Whole school approach implementation/Consultation on referrals.

And to use the acquired skills, knowledge and abilities to deliver a service based within education settings that builds on and reinforces but does not replace those initiatives that already exist within these environments.








This advert closes on Friday 15 Nov 2024

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Have you ever considered exploringnew horizons within our communityor expanding your skill set in a different role? If so, we would like to offer you an opportunity to do this with ourHome Treatment Team inOlderAdults Community Mental Health Serviceat the heart of Westminster where we will present you with a unique opportunityto do just that.

This is an opportunity for staff who are looking to develop new skills and expand their abilities to be able to work within the community. In turn you will be able to make a meaningful impact in a different capacity than your existing role. We are looking as a trust to change the approach as an alternative to inpatient care so that the patient can be in familiar surroundings.

Join our team at HTT, where your work-life balance is a priority! Our services run from9 am to 5 pm, seven days a week, with no night shifts (within this you will be asked to work at least two weekends within a month). This structure not only ensures you have dedicated time for your personal life but also opens up opportunities for you to take on additional bank hours with us or explore roles elsewhere across the trust. Your career, your schedule – make it work for you. Join HTT and seize the flexibility you've been looking for!

We want to hear from you!

** We highly recommend you reach out to us to have an informal discussion beforehand to learn a little more about the role**

This role involves intensive support and treatment to patients in the community in the acute phase of a mental health crisis as an alternative to inpatient care; monitoring patients’ safety and well-being to promote independence in the community; acting as gate keepers to admissions; supporting early discharges from hospital.



You will also be expected to work in collaboration with the Operational Team Manager, Clinical Leads/Senior Practitioners and to have close working relationships with the community teams, inpatient services, and the HTT backup across the service.

To help you achieve expanding your knowledge we will offer you
• Mentoring and supervisionfrom our highly experienced staff and team leaders supporting you with your development and growth into the role
• Commitment from the team to develop youby offeringtraining and development opportunities tailored to your needs and the role
• Opportunities to shadowour neighbouring services including CMHTs, HTTs, acute inpatients, PICU and HBPoS allowing you to see the full circle of treatment for our patients
• Local Reflective Practice forumsrun by one of the senior leads
• Clear objectives and pathway to develop your career further
• You would be joining a warm and welcoming team that would be looking to inspire and motivate you to become an integral team member and support your growth
• Flexible shift working opportunities for a healthier work-life balance
• CNWL is dedicated to developing its own staff and you will be encouraged to develop yourself into becoming the Nurse you aspire to be.
• Free access to our Staff and Well-being service to ensure that you are always looking after yourself

Working in the City of Westminster offers a myriad of advantages. Firstly, it's a hub of cultural diversity, providing exposure to different perspectives and fostering a vibrant atmosphere. The area is full of iconic landmarks like Big Ben, Buckingham Palace, and Westminster Abbey, making every workday a visual delight

Clinical duties

To triage referrals and allocate work to junior staff as appropriate.

To provide a comprehensive mental health assessment for complex patients in the acute phase of a mental health crisis.

To assess current risks and identify how the risk and patients mental health needs would best be met.

To formulate, implement and review individualised Recovery Care Plans with patients and their carers that aims to address their psychological, physical & social needs.

To build and maintain therapeutic relationships with patients and carers and involve them in drawing up care plans.

To work with patients care co-ordinator/ lead professional as appropriate to ensure continuity of care.

To provide information and advice to carers to support them through the crisis period.


This advert closes on Wednesday 13 Nov 2024

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Would you enjoy working in our thriving multi-disciplinary palliative care team where we, day to day work to achieve the best outcomes for the people we support? Could you imagine yourself working in the heart of London? Are you ambitious to develop your palliative career and would you like to develop in this growing, well-renowned team with a long tradition of ‘can do’? If yes, then please contact us to find out more.

We provide the space to care; access to a multi-professional team; we are committed to a happy and cohesive team; value personal and professional development; and aim to facilitate a risk-confident and supportive culture.

We arerecruiting a Band 7 Clinical Nurse Specialistfor our community palliative care team in South Camden and Islington. We are looking for someone who can appreciate their resilience and motivation to work in this area, and also can demonstrate compassion, self-knowledge, confidence, generosity, and courage.

As a service we provide palliative care to the patients of UCLH and South Camden & Islington community. The community team is based at St Pancras Hospital, and we work as one team with the UCLH hospital team. Camden, and Islington boroughs are the homes to diverse communities, as well as being the setting for many well-known London landmarks and facilities. These are just a few of the reasons we love working here.

Working in the community, you will work as an autonomous practitioner, as part of a team managing a caseload of palliative care patients with a variety of conditions, and often complex needs. This role will involve being part of a large team of nurses who provide on call cover for UCLH hospitals, and there will be opportunity to rotate to the hospital team.

Here in Central London, the demand for palliative care is increasing at a faster pace than ever before and many more people are dying in their place of choice thanks to the work we do as a multi-professional service.

If you think you have the personal pre-requisites and skills we’re looking for, please get in touch.

We offer excellent training and development opportunities to support personal and professional development, a range of family friendly policies, an interest free season ticket loan and subsidised sports facilities.

We work a 7 day working pattern with on call via a rota until 8pm each day.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
1. To be professionally and legally accountable for all work undertaken. To work within the Standards for Better Health and guidelines of the Palliative Care Team, CNWL and UCLH NHS Trusts and NMC Code of Conduct at all times.
2. To undertake specialist-nursing assessment of clients with complex palliative care needs through subjective questioning, objective examination, and study of appropriate written material (e.g. clinical records) available.
3. To prioritise factors involved in the patients and informal carers condition through advanced clinical reasoning based on knowledge of current professional opinion, patients prognosis and other physical, psychological, spiritual, ethical, social, and mental health records.
4. To identify patients, their informal carers or children whom may be at risk and vulnerable. Promptly enact the process outlined in the policies for Care of Vulnerable Adults and Care of Vulnerable Children.


This advert closes on Wednesday 30 Oct 2024

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An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Nurse to provide professional nursing support across Goodall Community services.

The role covers two main community service areas - Camden Adults and Children's Community Services - Camden Children and Bi-Borough Children Services and CIS (Tri-borough of Kensington and Chelsea, Hammersmith & Fulham and Westminster).

As a result, the successful applicant will be expected to be highly visible spending time in each geographical area but focusing on areas that need the most support, and with an office base in Camden. We run inpatient wards in Camden and you will also provide professional support and visibility to the wards.

You will need to be self-motivated and able to manage your time in response to a range of competing demands. In return we offer an effective structure and culture that places strong emphasis on attracting and retaining staff and managers; the current post holder has been seconded into another post creating this vacancy.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working in our healthcare settings.


• Provide leadership for clinical practice across the service in conjunction with the SMT and Divisional Director of Nursing with specific focus on the professional leadership of all nursing workforce within Goodall community services.
• Advise the services management teams on professional matters relating to nursing and on steps that it should take in order to ensure that its nursing staff remain compliant with professional codes and relevant regulations
• Provide clinical supervision as part of this system for senior nursing staff.
• Work closely with the Trust medicine’s and governance teams to ensure safe and clinically effective systems are in place in relation to nurse prescribing and non-medical prescribing.
• Chair nursing forums and groups relevant to the post and provide professional challenge to current practice, (including challenging the ‘status quo’) to drive on-going improvement
• Ensure the development and implementation of appropriate policies and protocols appropriate to this role and take the lead where
• Represent the service at external events on clinical practice in order to enhance the reputation of the Service and receive feedback on service delivery provided by clinical staff

CNWL is a forward-thinking trust and we pride ourselves on having:
• an ambitious and exemplary People Plan
• investment in organisational development at all levels
• are underpinned by a strong and far-reaching IT infrastructure
• have quality improvement at the heart of how we work
• proactively engage with service users and have ambitions to progress this further
• a strong evidence-base approach to all we do and a growing clinical research department
• To support the line management of nursing staff, (within specific areas of responsibility as identified above), and work closely with varying professional backgrounds that include: nursing, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, psychology and health care/rehabilitation assistants.
• To support teams to provide effective service delivery and ensure positive communication, promoting both multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working internally and externally to the organisation.
• To act as a senior leader influencing staff to make change, ensuring that service improvements are sustainable across both professional and organisational boundaries.
• To be a source of clinical expertise across the field of adult nursing services, by providing both general and specialist advice for clinicians delivering nursing interventions, on the full range of relevant issues including nursing aspects of risk assessment and management.
• To work alongside key colleagues to develop appropriate and constructive relationships both within and external to the organisation.
• To ensure that appropriate methods are used to ensure the inclusion of patient’s perspectives within service improvements.
• To identify and lead on the delivery of productivity and efficiency savings within the specific areas of responsibility.
• To work with the Head of Quality Governance and implement systems and processes to manage risk and ensure full compliance with internal and external governance procedures within the specific services.
• To contribute to and participate in the annual business planning cycle.
• To work as an active member of the Community Services Senior Management Team.
• To deputise for the Assistant Director of Nursing as appropriate.
• Prepare written and oral progress reports setting out progress in relation to the work and learning within the various services.


This advert closes on Sunday 3 Nov 2024

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A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a motivated and enthusiastic Medicines Optimisation Pharmacy Technician to join our pharmacy team at Central & North West London NHS Foundation Trust based in Inner London Services. We are looking for somebody with a friendly demeanour and excellent interpersonal skills.

We provide high quality support to our patients and are looking for a motivated, flexible and forward-thinking Pharmacy technician. This post offers you the opportunity to progress your career in an innovative and supportive environment. The post offers an excellent opportunity to develop your clinical and professional knowledge and skills in both physical and mental health. You will be involved in providing medicines optimisation service to in-patient eating disorder, children’s and adolescents mental health service and rehabilitation units. You will be registered with the General Pharmaceutical council (GPhC) as a Pharmacy Technician and practicing as a pharmacy technician in your current role.

If you have notcompleted a GPhC approved combined pharmacy technician qualification, you will need to hold a nationally recognised ‘Medicines Optimisation skills’ certificate and a ‘Final Accuracy Checking’ qualification. Willingness to work towards these qualifications is essential if you are yet to complete them.

You will need to demonstrate a person-centred approach and organisational skills. Previous NHS Hospital pharmacy experience, including mental health, would be desirable. You will also be expected to participate in the weekend and bank holiday rota, following a period of induction and training.

Locations: South Kensington and Chelsea (SK&C) SW10 9NG (Base) Collingham Child and Family Centre (CCFC) 1 Beatrice Place, Marloes Road W8 5LW

Bluebell Lodge, 7a Woodfield Road, W9 2NW





The pharmacy team is an established team with a friendly, supportive culture with a strong emphasis on training and professional development opportunities. CNWL has a strong commitment to advancing pharmacy practice and embedding effective medicines optimisation systems into patient care. The pharmacy team is recognised for the contribution it makes to the safe and effective use of medicines for patients.


This advert closes on Wednesday 30 Oct 2024

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We are looking for a full time (37.5) motivated and enthusiastic Medical Secretary, with a wide range of office skills to provide administrative and secretarial support to the Learning Disabilities Community Psychiatric Team. The postholder will be the primary point-of-contact for the medical staff and will be responsible for managing enquiries that come into the service in a manner responsive to customer needs and in accordance with consent to share information.

Other duties include providing secretarial support to the LD psychiatrists which will include management of appointments, processing letters and correspondence on behalf of the doctors, minute taking, post distribution, receiving and disseminating information, maintaining the electronic patient database and general administrative duties.

English and Maths GCSE or equivalent is essential to the post plus previous administrative/secretarial experience, in addition to excellent communication and organisational skills.

A comprehensive knowledge of windows packages is also required.

The post holder will be an integral member of the Community Learning Disability Team, providing secretarial / administrative support to the medical staff within the team as defined in the principal responsibilities of the post.

The post holder will also act as one of the central points of contact for patients / relatives, ensuring a positive corporate image and good client care is promoted at all times.

The post will be supervised and the post holder will liaise closely with other administration staff on a day-to-day basis as well as liaise with the Brent Community LD Multidisciplinary Team / the community and inpatient Service manager, and other departments as necessary.

The postholder will be able to prioritise their own workload, whilst effectively managing competing priorities within their own workload and also the wider general office environment.

The postholder will be required to provide cover for the other administrative staff within the LD service as and when necessary and during periods of absence, to ensure the continued smooth running of the service.

We are delighted that you are interested in working with us here CNWL. Our Trust is an exciting place to work with a wealth of CPD opportunities available for all our staff. We work in collaboration with our Social Work colleagues and value the lived experiences of both our staff and service users.

What we can offer you:

CNWL is recognised locally, nationally and internationally for providing high quality, innovative healthcare. We aim to employ in line with our values, and policy, and many models of our care have been adapted for use in other countries. With us, you will get:
• A Trust committed to staff personal development, with a trust wide culture change and leadership programme that has staff wellbeing at its core.
• An opportunity to work for one of the top 10 NHS employers
• Flexible working
• Variety of work
• Access to a variety of CPD opportunities

We encourage staff input and ideas in relation to moving services forward and meeting the client group’s needs.

As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

Reception
• Covering reception on a shift basis.


• Covering reception when staff shortages.


• Greeting all visitors/service users appropriately and with sensitivity.


• Ensure all patients and visitors sign in and showing correct ID.


• Issuing of badges.



Answering phones
• First point of contact for incoming calls.


• To deal with telephone calls, correspondence and direct contacts with clients and other internal or external agencies in an appropriate and professional manner, using judgement and discretion where necessary and referring complex matters to relevant team members.


• To take clear and accurate messages and ensure that they are passed to the appropriate person as soon as possible, escalating the message if necessary, depending on the urgency.


• To listen to the Service Users and understand their needs.


• To offer advice and solutions where appropriate.


• To answer telephone calls to CNWL standards.




This advert closes on Tuesday 22 Oct 2024

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A Vacancy at Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust.


As a Band 6 Pharmacist, you will play a key role in delivering high-quality pharmaceutical services to our patients with the support to progress into a Band 7 post. Applicants who are currently suitable to practice at a band 7 level, will be considered for a band 7 position

We are recruiting for a Pharmacist who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

We are looking for highly motivated pharmacists to join our innovative, progressive, patient-centred pharmacy team. We are a friendly department and will support you to become an outstanding clinical pharmacist and help you fulfil your full potential.

Locations: Vincent Square Inpatient Eating Disorder Services, South Kensington and Chelsea (SK&C) SW10 9NG

Bluebell Lodge, 7a Woodfield Road, W9 2NW
• To deliver a comprehensive medicines optimisation service to Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (CNWL) patients and the multidisciplinary treatment team responsible for their care, in line with Trust policies, procedures and standards
• The potential to develop the clinical knowledge and skills to practice competently as a foundation pharmacist under the Diploma in General Pharmacy Practice
• To deputise for other pharmacists in their absence.
• To work with Medicines Optimisation Pharmacy Technicians (MOPT) in the delivery of medicines reconciliation and discharge counselling.
• To provide input into policy and procedures affecting the use of medicines at local and Trust wide level under direction of the Advanced Specialist Pharmacist.
• To act as a Practice Supervisor in the training and education of pre-registration pharmacists and junior pharmacists.

You will be involved in covering specialist mental health services and building your portfolio to demonstrate advanced pharmacy practice. You will be involved in providing clinical pharmacy services to in-patient eating disorder, mental health rehabilitation and children and adolescent mental health services.

We will support you to undertake relevant post graduate training including the prescribing qualification and leadership training.

We will develop your portfolio of skills to prepare you for more senior roles within the department through involvement in directorate and project work focused on improving quality of clinical services and patient-focused care. Previous NHS Hospital pharmacy experience, including mental health, would be desirable.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

Our Trust Values are compassion, respect, empowerment and partnership. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond!

The pharmacy team is an established team with a friendly, supportive culture with a strong emphasis on training and professional development opportunities. CNWL has a strong commitment to advancing pharmacy practice and embedding effective medicines optimisation systems into patient care. The pharmacy team is recognised for the contribution it makes to the safe and effective use of medicines for patients.


This advert closes on Thursday 31 Oct 2024

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We require an enthusiastic, dynamic and highly motivated Senior Pharmacy Assistant to join our Pharmacy team based at St Charles Hospital site at Ladbroke Grove. You will help to deliver a service to CNWL sites. In addition, the post-holder will be responsible for supervising the ATOs, topping up off site wards and labelling and dispensing medication in the main dispensary. Performing this role will require a good level of communication, organisation time management and interpersonal skills and preferably some knowledge and experience of mental health services.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

The SATO will be able to accurately dispense and issue repeat out-patient prescriptions and clinical trials prescriptions under the supervision of a pharmacist or accredited checking technician.

The SATO will also be responsible for supervising the ATO working in the dispensary.

Central and North West London Foundation NHS Trust is a large trust in central London covering a huge area from Hillingdon to Westminster. St Charles Hospital is part of this Trust.

The patients we care for may have a mental illness, elderly, needing rehabilitation or long term care. We provide support to staff working in our busy community care services.

Located near Ladbroke Grove, the hospital is a community of friendly multi-professional staff and patients. After work central London is close at hand and locally Notting hill has great markets and restaurants.

Interview date: TBC

Administrative responsibilities in the absence of ATOs. Accurately label prescriptions under the supervision of a pharmacist or accredited checking
technician.

Accurately dispense prescriptions including medicines in a Multi-Compartment Compliance Aid (MCA) under the supervision of a pharmacist or accredited checking technician.

Dispensing controlled drugs under the supervision of a pharmacist or accredited checking technician. Supervising the ATOs in the dispensary.

Ensure dispensary ATO duties are carried out daily, weekly & monthly
Daily room temperature monitoring Filing away all prescriptions and maintain archiving .

Carry out daily dispensary stock top up

Distribute post

Return patient named medication from wards back to stock


This advert closes on Sunday 27 Oct 2024

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Are you looking to work in a team that allows you to feel empowered and proud to be a Nurse? To work in an environment that will allow you to develop and flourish as a practitioner? Then the adult and older adult teams at Northwick Park Hospital might just have what you’re looking for.

“I feel valued, heard and part of something special. My Nursing skills are recognised by my peers and leaders at Northwick Park with opportunities available to enhance them further”- Staff Nurse, Northwick Park

Vaccination

The statutory requirement to be fully Covid-19 vaccinated as a condition of deployment from April 2022 is subject to legislative review. The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users and we will therefore be seeking proof of vaccination or medical exemption during the recruitment process. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings

Nursing practice continuously develops with time and at Northwick Park so do we. If we want to understand the reasons for mental health problems, it often makes more sense to ask“What has happened to you?” rather than “What is wrong with you?”This method forms the basis ofTrauma-Informed Approaches(TIA), where we acknowledge the relationship between people’s life experiences and the development of mental health difficulties.

Nursing, turning lives around, being the ears that our patients need;all the reasons you looked to become a Nurse.In addition to this we want to offer you;
• Innovative Trauma Informed staff training programincluding practise of Team Formulation
• Coaching and development sessionsincluding; wound care treatment, forms of dementia treatment, Mental State Examination skill sessions, administering ACE assessments
• On-siteshadowing opportunitiesfor you with our HTT, CMHT, Psych Liaison services
• Commitment tocareer mappingto ensure continuous professional development including opportunities such as CBT, DBT, ECG and venepuncture training
• Flexible shift working hours to provide ahealthy work-life balance
• Training package(inc sponsorship for post-graduate studies up to masters)
• Hidden Gem, annual award ceremonies andaward-winning Staff Networksthat have thousands of members and exciting events.
• Excellentstaff benefits: our benefit packages are amongst the best in London and include: childcare vouchers, health and wellbeing services, season ticket loans and cycle to work scheme.

Why work at Northwick Park Mental Health Services?
• Front-runnersin developing Trauma Informed Approached (TIA) to patient care in CNWL
• Active attempts tomove away from medical modelto more psychological approaches- evidenced by implementation of TIA and recentQI projectaimed at providing nurses withPatient Protected timeon the wards
• AIMS accreditedwards- meaning that you will be working with a team who has achieved thehighest standards of clinical excellenceas governed by the Royal College of Psychiatrists
• Wards equipped withlatest technologyincludingOxehealth room sensor technology,Omnicell automated medicine cabinetsandelectronic prescribingto reduce time spent on administration and drug rounds and allow more time for care.
• Commitment from the team todevelop you as a practitionerby offering coaching and in-house development sessions
• An opportunity to work with afun, energetic and passionate teamwho are committed to looking after each other as well as their patients- evidenced by their team outings, away days and local events.
• You will be a current RMN or soon-to-be qualified RMN
• You will possess sound clinical risk assessment and management skills
• Good knowledge of the Mental Health Act (1983), CPA and NMC code of conduct.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work both as part of a team and on their own initiative and respond creatively to service provision and service user needs
• Maintaining accurate, legible, comprehensive records
• Safeguarding people by recognising and responding when an adult or child might be at risk from abuse but also recognising their own limits and asking for help and escalate concerns when necessary
• Escalating safety concerns and by doing so acting as effective advocates for those who use our services


This advert closes on Thursday 10 Oct 2024

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A Vacancy at Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust.


Would you enjoy the challenge of working in the Hospital Palliative Care team at UCLH, where we work day to day to achieve the best symptom control, palliative care and end of life care outcomes for the people we care for? Could you imagine yourself working in the heart of the city? Are you ambitious to develop your career and would you like to be supported to do this in a thriving practice with a long tradition of ‘can do’? If yes, then please contact us to find out more.

We are looking to recruit to aBand 7 Clinical Nurse Specialistfor the Inpatient Symptom Control and Palliative Care Team, for a nine month full-time fixed term contract/maternity cover (please do call to discuss this further/hours, we would consider 0.8WTE over 12 months)

As a whole service we provide palliative care to the patients of UCLH and South Camden & Islington community.

You will work as an autonomous practitioner managing a caseload of complex palliative care patients with a variety of conditions. Supported by an experienced team of Clinical Nurse Specialist's, Registrar's and Consultants, you will also have the opportunity to be involved in a wide range of teaching, staff support, projects, service improvement as well as developing your own leadership skills.

Here in Central London, the demand for specialist palliative care is increasing at a faster pace than ever before.

To join us in this demanding and rewarding role you'll need to have...

- Resilience and clear motivation

– Passionate about working with a wide range of people in their last years of life

- An advanced toolkit of clinical skills that simply makes a consistent difference to patients and their families

- An ability to motivate and influence people and operate with a good deal of personal warmth, friendliness and compassion

- Be bright and emotionally intelligent

- Strong networking skills and proven ability to build relationships with a diverse range of people

- An accountability gene that does not shirk from leading in complex situations

- Ability to develop increasing innovation and to utilise the evidence base in palliative care

- Opportunity to occasionally work across the three Palliative care teams: UCLH, South Camden Community, Islington Community

We offer excellent training and development opportunities to support personal and professional development, a range of family friendly policies, an interest free season ticket loan and subsidised sports facilities.

We have a 7 day working pattern with on call via a rota until 8pm each day. Full time CNS's work approximately 3 weekend days over a three month rota (subject to staffing).

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. To be professionally and legally accountable for all work undertaken. To work within the Standards for Better Health and guidelines of the Palliative Care Centre, the Trusts, and NMC Code of Conduct at all times.
2. To ensure that the patient and their informal carers have an understanding of treatment protocols and give informed consent to examination and treatment interventions recommended.
3. To undertake specialist-nursing assessment of clients with complex palliative care needs through subjective questioning, objective examination, and study of appropriate written material (e.g. clinical records) available.
4. To prioritise factors involved in the patients and informal carers condition through advanced clinical reasoning based on knowledge of current professional opinion, patients prognosis and other physical, psychological, spiritual, ethical, social, and mental health records.
5. To identify patients, their informal carers or children whom may be at risk and vulnerable. Promptly enact the process outlined in the policies for Care of Vulnerable Adults and Care of Vulnerable Children.
6. To constantly monitor, evaluate and review clinical assessments and interventions within the multidisciplinary framework and to modify approach to clinical care as necessary.
7. To act as an expert nurse in palliative care for patients and their families with complex palliative care needs. Monitoring, evaluating and reviewing palliative interventions, taking a key worker role as indicated.
8. To independently receive and make referrals and manage a caseload of patients with complex palliative care needs.
9. To independently assess referrals from a variety of sources where no other professional is currently involved. To establish priority, to determine needs, initiate and monitor treatment plans. To direct and support 1st and 2nd tier clinicians in this process.
10. To work independently within a general Multi-Disciplinary Team to advise on a palliative approach to patients who may not be currently known to the Palliative Care Centre.
11. Develop and conduct skilled nursing interventions with palliative care patients- assessing their palliative care needs and addressing issues such as quality of life, futility, prognosis and end of life decision making within an ethical framework.
12. To be an expert assessor/advisor on pain and symptom management,
psychological/spiritual/social/practical care and ethical decisions at the end of life and to work in partnership, collaborating with a range of professionals to improve their palliative skills.
13. To independently assess bereavement needs for informal carers and give advice, support and make appropriate referrals independently to improve the bereavement outcome.
14. To work autonomously in isolated community care settings that vary in relation to local socio economic and multi-cultural issues.
15. To swiftly respond and lead resolution in challenging or crisis situations within palliative care, eg. difficult family situations, emergencies, and professional distress.
16. To use comprehensive knowledge of other multidisciplinary roles and external agencies to ensure best referral management and achieve best patient care.
17. To act as First Contact for palliative care emergencies out of hours across two community settings and UCLH group of Hospitals. To receive and manage new referrals out of hours with the support of the Consultant on call.
18. To contribute to the development and implementation of uni-disciplinary and multidisciplinary clinical policies, guidelines, protocols and care pathway implementation.
19. To participate in multi-disciplinary assessments and cross agency assessments as required.
20. To ensure dignity for the patients and their families at all times.
21. To ensure clinical records are recorded and maintained on the team database.
22. To provide specialist contribution to health promotion and health education initiatives within the locality.
23. To develop the palliative care skills of other professionals working locally.
24. To undertake courses to extend the scope of nursing roles as specified in CNO 10 document i.e. independent and supplementary prescribing and to use these skills in practise once appropriate qualified. To ensure competence is maintained and new skills are
undertaken according to Trust Guidance within a Governance Framework.
25. To maintain a continuing Professional Development portfolio.
26. To maintain up to date, evaluative client records in accordance with service policy and to contribute to maintaining the minimum data set.
27. To ensure that clinical care that is undertaken is safe and to an acceptable quality, and that it is continuously improving.
28. To contribute to new innovative approaches to nursing within palliative care and ensure this knowledge is shared widely within the profession to enhance patient experiences.
29. To acts as mentor to junior colleagues.


This advert closes on Wednesday 23 Oct 2024

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Rough Sleepers Mental Health Nurse - Brent CMHT

FIXED TERM - 12 MONTHS

The Communiy Mental Health Team are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic and dynamic mental health nurse who can be clinically creative in engaging an often marginalized client group.

Your skills and abilities will enable you to work closely with other statutory mental health services, housing provider services and social care teams to deliver an assertive and responsive service throughout the rough sleeper pathway.

You will also gain experience of working closely with third sector, charitable and voluntary homeless services. This role involves working in many, varied settings and on any given day you may find yourself engaging clients at their sleep sites, hostels or day-centres in addition to the more usual community practice areas.

This post offers an excellent opportunity to develop and build upon existing clinical skills within the framework of a supportive multi disciplinary team.

Though two years post registration experience is desirable for the Band 6 post, there is the potential for a less experienced Band 5 nurse to join the team in a developmental role.

If you are interested in this role Nicholas Bygraves prior to applying on 07496962902 or email: nbygraves@nhs.net



To be you and to do what you do best in the job you love!

The successful applicant will take the lead of a caseload of patients and be at the forefront of their care. You will also be expected to work in collaboration with the Operational Team Manager, Clinical Leads/Senior Practitioners and to have close working relationships with Adult Social Care and local homeless providers.

To help support you with the above we offer a robust induction and tailored training will be given and encouraged.As an employer, CNWL also offer various training opportunities, dependent on how long you are in post and your development needs as well as the CMHH offering internal training opportunities so that the team continues to learn and evolve their practice and support of their clients and each other.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

In return we can offer you the following;
• Flexible shift workingopportunities for a healthierwork-life balance
• Commitment from the team to develop you by offering coaching and in-house development sessionss
• Free access to our Staff and Wellbeing service to ensure that you are always looking after yourself
• Commitment to career mapping to ensurecontinuous professional developmentincluding opportunities within the Trust
• Shadowing opportunities i
• Local Reflective Practice forums run by one of the senior leads
• An opportunity to work with a friendly, dynamic, passionate and diverse team who are committed to looking after each other as well as their patients
• Excellent staff benefits: our benefit packages are amongst the best in London and include:childcare vouchers, health and wellbeing services, season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, blue light card, discounts at Nando's and Superdrug, mobile phone contracts and much more! 
• Award-winning Staff Networks
• Hidden Gem & annual award ceremonies

Key Duties



Clients/Users



· To contact rough sleepers, homeless people in Day Centres and other voluntary organisations providing services for homeless people.

· To undertake individual comprehensive assessments of mental health housing and social care needs.

· To offer short-term intervention to link clients into mainstream services where appropriate.

· To undertake care management assessments and responsibilities for individual clients in relation to care planning.

· To carry an allocated caseload of clients with ongoing Care Management responsibilities for assessment, care, treatment and review for individual clients.

· To assist where necessary in rehabilitation programmes for individuals and groups.

· To advocate for clients in relation to access to services, including welfare benefits and housing and social care, and complete applications as required.



Team



· To participate as a full member of the multidisciplinary team.

· To be familiar with all legislation and policies that relate to the team and apply correctly in practice. This will include all housing legislation and government homelessness initiatives in addition to national and local mental health policies and directives.

· To attend team meetings and support groups and other routine and specific meetings as required.

· To undertake joint work with other team members and to co-ordinate this if required.

· To contribute as required to the development of policies and procedures devised by the team.

· To take part in the weekly Duty Rota for the Advice and Referral service.

· To take part in regular reviews of team performance and goal setting.



Agency / Liaison



· To undertake planned, regular contact sessions at specific agencies e.g. Day Centres, Hostels

· To develop good communication with agency staff as a basis for good working relationships.

· To represent the CNWL at agency meetings if requested to do so.

· To offer informal consultation on mental health issues to agency staff.

· To offer formal training sessions to external agencies on mental health and homelessness issues if requested to do so.

· To develop and maintain effective joint working arrangements with colleagues in mainstream Health and Social and Community Services Departments to ensure a comprehensive and co-ordinated service.



Data/ Administration



· To collect and record client data in the required format both manually and on PC.

· To maintain client records accurately and up to date in the required format.

· To undertake correspondence about and on behalf of clients.

· To write clear reports and summaries as requested.

· To take part in any approved research programmes.

· To maintain and observe the confidentiality of all information relating to team clients as laid down in the confidentiality policy.





Profession Specific (Nursing)



· To use a full range of mental health skills to contribute to the assessment, care and support of team clients.

· To order, carry, store and administer prescribed drugs as required by CNWL Mental Health Trust.

· To carry a personal caseload and throughout the care co-ordination process to provide for clients and carers, as appropriate, advise, counselling, treatment and advocacy according to professional expertise.

· To maintain accurate records about the administration of medicines to individual clients.

· To be conversant with and to operate within CNWL policies and practice pertaining to Community Psychiatric Nursing practice.

· To have or develop a good understanding of the nature of the nursing role within a multidisciplinary team.

· To offer training to other team members on nursing specific issues.

· To keep up to date with new thinking and approaches in the nursing profession by reading and appropriate training.

· To participate in the teaching of nursing students or other professional students on placement or visiting the team.

· To have valid NMC registration and adhere to NMC code of professional conduct.



Street Outreach



· To undertake planned and regular evening street outreach in order to extend the team’s service to users who may not have regular access via day centres and hostels (up to a maximum of two evenings weekly dependent on the needs of the service).

· To work assertively, where necessary, with clients who may actively wish to avoid contact with mental health services, identifying and assessing the potential risks involved in work activities on the street and how best to manage these risks.

· To liaise closely with other outreach teams and assist in the assessment of clients referred by them.

· To undertake follow up work with individuals contacted on outreach and to engage and assess clinical and social care needs.

· To undertake regular sessions as required in hostels and day centres as a means of maintaining contact with service users who are street homeless, and contributing to the team’s work generally.

· To produce regular reports and statistics for monitoring and evaluation purposes.


Management Supervision and Accountability


· To be accountable to the Team Leader.

· To receive management and clinical supervision from the Senior Nurse Practitioner.


Diversity


To practise in such a way that the service is culturally sensitive, accessible and responsive to the needs of a wide range of service users.


General



· To observe all policies determined by CNWL at team level concerning:

- Equal Opportunities

- Confidentiality

- Health and Safety (including Smoking Policy)

- Data Protection



· Any other duties as required by the nature of the post.






This advert closes on Wednesday 23 Oct 2024

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12-month Fixed term/ Secondment post

Brent and Harrow Community Perinatal Mental Health Team, based at Northwick Park Hospital are recruiting for a Band 7, 12-month fixed term/secondment post. We are looking for two passionate Registered Mental Health Nurses who are looking to make a difference whilst working in an environment that promotes staff development and training opportunities. CNWL is passionate about developing its own staff, driving them to go on to become more established practitioners and this post is no different.

You could be anexisting Band 6 or Band 7 Nurselooking to take your next steps or anexperienced practitioner looking for a new venture; we have training and development opportunities tailored to suit your needs within the perinatal framework.If you currently work within CNWL trust already then this would be a wonderful secondment opportunity for a year to experience the working within the perinatal specialty.

Flexible working- Our team operates Monday to Friday from 9.00 am to 5.00 pm however there are opportunities for this post to be tailored to suit you and your lifestyle needs with flexible working available in a team that is dynamic and transforming the way we offer support women and birthing people in Brent and Harrow with perinatal mental health challenges. If this sounds like something that could inspire you then we want to hear from you!





To be you and to do what you do best in the job you love!

We are looking for a clinician with a special interest in improving care for women, birthing people and their families. Experience of working in the perinatal mental health field is not necessary but a keen interest in this specialist area is essential.

The Perinatal Mental Health service provides specialist, multidisciplinary perinatal mental health care for women from preconception, during pregnancy and up to two years postnatal who live in the boroughs of Brent and Harrow.

To help support you with the abovewe offer a robust induction and tailored training is given and encouraged. As an employer, CNWL and London Perinatal Network also offer various training opportunities, dependent on how long you are in post and on your development needs. In addition, we offer regular in-house training opportunities to learn from each other with the aim to continuously improve our practice.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

We are committed to offering you an environment to flourish which includes dedicated development opportunities as well as a healthier work life balance. We will offer you;
• Flexible workingavailable to provide ahealthy work-life balance.
• Commitment from the team to develop you by offering in house perinatal training in the form of masterclasses led by members of the perinatal service and associated integral agencies.
• Free access to our Staff and Wellbeing service to ensure that you are always looking after yourself.
• Commitment to career mapping to ensure continuous professional development including opportunities within the Trust.
• On-site shadowing opportunities including Maternity Services, Mother and baby Unit, Home Treatment Team, Psych Liaison and many more.
• An opportunity to work with a friendly, dynamic, passionate and diverse team who are committed to looking after each other as well as their service users.
• Excellent staff benefits: our benefit packages are amongst the best in London and include: childcare vouchers, health and wellbeing services, season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, blue light card, discounts at Nando's and Superdrug, mobile phone contracts and much more! 
• Award-winning Staff Networks.
• Hidden Gem & annual award ceremonies.



- To deliver a highly specialist evidence-based mental health assessment, formulation of diagnosis ,care planning, treatment and review for women in the perinatal period .

- To provide specialist evidence based interventions such as CBT ,VIPP , VIG, to women in the perinatal period , to the parent infant dyad or the family system.

- To provide specialist consultation, advice and support to both CNWL, local Maternity Hospital in-patient and community services on best practice when working with women with mental health needs; at preconception, pregnant women and women with infants up to one year old.

- To work jointly with care coordinators from CMHTs with a small complex and challenging caseload of pregnant women or those with an infant up to one year old.

- To work in consultation with other professionals making known concerns regarding safeguarding children and/or adults to the appropriate and responsible service. This includes attending Child Protection and Review Conferences as appropriate where the child is at risk because of the mother’s mental illness.

- To work with colleagues to establish a clear process and criteria for receiving referrals to undertake direct work or information for advice and liaison work.

- To assist in setting up structures that allow the dissemination of knowledge and skills regarding working with perinatal women in both in-patient and community services.

- To liaise and work with specialist tertiary services such as Mother & Baby Units, personality disorder services, eating disorder services etc.

- To work with fathers, partners and significant others to provide appropriate education training and support.

- To identify carers and refer/sign post for assessment as appropriate.

- To work as a member of the multi-disciplinary team exercising autonomous professional responsibility for managing a clinical caseload independently, providing highly specialist assessments and follow-up for women referred with complex problems, which includes assessment of risk in terms of self-harm, self-neglect, vulnerability, harm to others, domestic violence and safeguarding children.

- To seek consultation where necessary with clinical supervisor and/or line manager on clinical work and participate in regular supervision.

- To be mindful of the needs of women and their families from a wide range of racial, cultural, sexual, religious and social backgrounds and to develop, with colleagues, sensitive and innovative ways of meeting these needs.

- To ensure that all Trust Perinatal service users have a perinatal care plan, which is implemented. This requires attending and contributing to pre and post-birth meetings.

- To work with other professionals in supporting them to implement an agreed parent –infant care plan.

- To attend the CNWL Safeguarding Children multidisciplinary meetings and any other relevant multidisciplinary meetings within Maternity services, as appropriate.

- To be responsible for monitoring, recording and reporting on clinical work and communicating highly complex clinical information to a variety of recipients (e.g. patient’s, families and carers, other professionals) orally and in writing.

- To be responsible for developing and maintaining knowledge of local resources and developing excellent working relationships with relevant statutory, voluntary and community groups and organisations.


This advert closes on Monday 7 Oct 2024

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Would you like to work for an exciting, progressive team where 90% of the management team have been promoted from within?

If so this could be the job for you! An opportunity has arisen to work as one of the Mental Health Clinical Team Leaders for Brent Community Mental Health Team (CMHT). We are looking for candidates with robust clinical expertise who are also able to demonstrate progressive skills in clinical leadership and management.

Brent CMHT is one of the leading perfoming teams in the trust and were early onsetters of the community transformation which is now successfully embedded. This progressive trust supports staff to develop and creates learning opportunites for staff at all levels, believing bringing your true self to the organisation is something we can value and use positively to enhance our engagement with the various groups we serve.

Clinical Lead Brent CMHT

An opportunity has arisen to work as one of the Clinical Leads for Brent Community Mental Health Team (CMHT). We are looking for a candidate with robust clinical expertise who is also able to demonstrate progressive skills in leadership and service development.

The CMHT is an exciting area to work in as it is at the forefront of mental health transformation in line with the five year forward plan. To be considered for this post you will need to be a registered nurse and have experience of working in multi-disciplinary teams who care for adults within mental health secondary care sector. You will have experience of working in community mental health and ideally have knowledge and experience of a CMHT.

The successful applicant will take the day to day clinical and team management responsibility at team level using performance management systems to ensure the effective delivery of clinical activity and quality standards to meet service specifications. You will also be expected to work in collaboration with the Operational Team Manager, Clinical Leads/Senior Practitioners and to have close working relationships with the Inpatient Service and HTT.

Brent CMHT is an established team with a friendly, supportive culture. There is a visible and supportive management team and a strong emphasis on training and professional development opportunities. Support to prepare candidates for interview will be provided.



Brent is a place of contrast and a destination for thousands of British and international visitors every year. Home of the iconic Wembley Stadium, the world-famous Wembley Arena, the new London Designer Outlet and the spectacular Swaminarayan Hindu Temple, it provides a stage for cultural, sporting and religious events of national and international importance. The team serves the diverse and vibrant population of Brent, named London Borough of Culture 2020 and most recently ‘Council of the Year’ at the LGC Awards 2020.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.






The post-holder will be required to work within the multidisciplinary team structure of the CMHT to provide creative contact and support to adults who experience Severe and Enduring Mental Health problems.

He/she will have a small caseload and take responsibility for the day-to-day co-ordination of the multi-disciplinary team clinical activities; ensuring that clinical priorities are set, highest standard of care is maintained and the team caseload are regularly reviewed.

He/she will be required to supervise and support members of the clinical staff and to provide a useful resource or expertise on care co-ordination responsibilities and other aspects of day-to-day clinical operations of the service including statutory requirements/duties and complex care issues.

The post holder will further be required to provide strong clinical leadership for the team and work closely with care co-ordinators to establish and maintain high clinical care standards, ensuring that the quality of care provided is continually informed by the best evidence-based practice in conjunction with the Operational Manger and consultant.

He/She will be familiar with the data/performance requirements of the CMHT and be able to ensure that these are met by the team. He/she will take responsibility for allocating caseloads in a manner that takes full account of the needs of the service user and expertise/skills available within the team.


This advert closes on Friday 4 Oct 2024

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

Would you like to work for an exciting, progressive team where 90% of the management team have been promoted from within?

If so this could be the job for you! An opportunity has arisen to work as one of the Mental Health Clinical Team Leaders for Brent Community Mental Health Team (CMHT). We are looking for candidates with robust clinical expertise who are also able to demonstrate progressive skills in clinical leadership and management.

Brent CMHT is one of the leading perfoming teams in the trust and were early onsetters of the community transformation which is now successfully embedded. This progressive trust supports staff to develop and creates learning opportunites for staff at all levels, believing bringing your true self to the organisation is something we can value and use positively to enhance our engagement with the various groups we serve.

Clinical Lead Brent CMHT

An opportunity has arisen to work as one of the Clinical Leads for Brent Community Mental Health Team (CMHT). We are looking for a candidate with robust clinical expertise who is also able to demonstrate progressive skills in leadership and service development.

The CMHT is an exciting area to work in as it is at the forefront of mental health transformation in line with the five year forward plan. To be considered for this post you will need to be a registered nurse and have experience of working in multi-disciplinary teams who care for adults within mental health secondary care sector. You will have experience of working in community mental health and ideally have knowledge and experience of a CMHT.

The successful applicant will take the day to day clinical and team management responsibility at team level using performance management systems to ensure the effective delivery of clinical activity and quality standards to meet service specifications. You will also be expected to work in collaboration with the Operational Team Manager, Clinical Leads/Senior Practitioners and to have close working relationships with the Inpatient Service and HTT.

Brent CMHT is an established team with a friendly, supportive culture. There is a visible and supportive management team and a strong emphasis on training and professional development opportunities. Support to prepare candidates for interview will be provided.



Brent is a place of contrast and a destination for thousands of British and international visitors every year. Home of the iconic Wembley Stadium, the world-famous Wembley Arena, the new London Designer Outlet and the spectacular Swaminarayan Hindu Temple, it provides a stage for cultural, sporting and religious events of national and international importance. The team serves the diverse and vibrant population of Brent, named London Borough of Culture 2020 and most recently ‘Council of the Year’ at the LGC Awards 2020.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.






The post-holder will be required to work within the multidisciplinary team structure of the CMHT to provide creative contact and support to adults who experience Severe and Enduring Mental Health problems.

He/she will have a small caseload and take responsibility for the day-to-day co-ordination of the multi-disciplinary team clinical activities; ensuring that clinical priorities are set, highest standard of care is maintained and the team caseload are regularly reviewed.

He/she will be required to supervise and support members of the clinical staff and to provide a useful resource or expertise on care co-ordination responsibilities and other aspects of day-to-day clinical operations of the service including statutory requirements/duties and complex care issues.

The post holder will further be required to provide strong clinical leadership for the team and work closely with care co-ordinators to establish and maintain high clinical care standards, ensuring that the quality of care provided is continually informed by the best evidence-based practice in conjunction with the Operational Manger and consultant.

He/She will be familiar with the data/performance requirements of the CMHT and be able to ensure that these are met by the team. He/she will take responsibility for allocating caseloads in a manner that takes full account of the needs of the service user and expertise/skills available within the team.


This advert closes on Friday 4 Oct 2024

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