Assistant Practitioner

Community Mental Health Services across NLFT are transforming. The Assistant Practitioner will work within the Intensive Outreach (Assertive Outreach) Pathway embedded in the multi-disciplinary Core Team to proactively engage adults with psychosis and/or complex needs who find it difficult to access traditional services. The post holder will deliver recovery-focused, trauma-informed and culturally competent interventions under supervision, contributing to assessment and ongoing care using Dialog+ care planning and digital tools including RiO and MAST. The role involves assertive community outreach, lone working in line with policy, multi-agency collaboration (VCS, primary care, local authority) and supporting safe step-up/step-down decision making. Deliver recovery-focused, trauma-informed interventions under supervision to support engagement and social inclusion.

• Support assessment processes including data collection, monitoring and contribution to Dialog+ care planning.
• Undertake assertive outreach including home visits; adhere to Lone Working Policy and use Trust devices.
• Observe and report changes in mental and physical health and escalate risks appropriately.
• Support psycho-social and therapeutic group/individual interventions.
• Support physical health checks and health promotion within competence.
• Maintain accurate RiO documentation and use MAST to support caseload oversight.
• Work with carers where appropriate and contribute to carer assessments.
• Participate in MDT discussions regarding discharge, transition and admission avoidance.
• Respond appropriately to behaviour that challenges using approved techniques.
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: 1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home. 2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all 3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care. 4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology. Why NLFT?
• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
• Excellent internal staff network
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.
• To use and complete all Trust clinical documentation to the required standard,including care plans, pathway documents and Rio progress notes and professional reports accurately and in a timely manner.
• To maintain confidentiality of information, in accordance with Trust Policy.
• To contribute to the effective communication process of often sensitive or highly sensitive information with service users, carers, family, friends and staffColleagues.
• To always act in a dignified and responsible manner with service users, visitors, carers and colleagues; listening carefully and responding using appropriate communication skills which acknowledge cultural differences and professional boundaries
• To communicate appropriate and accurate information to and from other departments, service lines, and agencies as required
• To lead, attend and participate in team meetings and contribute ideas to multi-professional Core team discussions.