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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 essential requirement for this role is to have successfully completed training on a nationally recognised post graduate IAPT low intensity programme.  This will include gaining skills on how to improve knowledge of a range of mental health issues, and how to provide a range of brief solution-focused interventions for adults who are experiencing mild to moderate emotional difficulties, particularly anxiety and depression.

Under supervision you will deliver Step 2 CBT interventions. These will include guided self-help, active listening, computer aided CBT, group work and signposting. These interventions will be offered from both General Practice Surgeries and community venues across the borough as well as from the team base and other locations as appropriate. Interventions will be primarily telephone based, but also include some face to face and video sessions as required.

You will be fully supported to provide advice to Primary Care colleagues and you'll be involved in delivering mental health interventions (outreach groups and workshops) in the community.  Additionally, you'll work closely with local GPs to facilitate appropriate referrals and provide high-quality treatment for our clients.

Furthermore, you'll have the opportunity to participate in supervision, team audit, and governance systems and we will agree on a personal training and development programme matched to your specialist interests. 

Interview will be Tuesday 30th July 

Main duties of the job

• Under our supervision,  you'll manage a caseload of clients who have mild to moderate anxiety and/or depression referred and assessed by the GP, other professionals or self-referred. This includes assessments and treatments.
• In collaboration with colleagues and under supervision, to provide a range of evidenced based brief interventions using guided self-help methods
• To facilitate the development and running of self-help groups, activities and use of self-help materials.
• To engage in health promotion and outreach work directed towards local communities and in particular those groups under represented within the service through community workshops and liaison with community leaders and organisations.

Clinical Governance

• To collect data relevant to your work indicating performance outcomes and this includes timely recording of information on IAPTUS, the patient electronic database.
• To be responsible for conducting audit and research appropriate to the post.
• To work with the team in developing policies/guidelines appropriate to work/role and review effectiveness.
• Professional Development

 To identify own training needs and take opportunity to update professional knowledge and skills through training programmes.

Working for our organisation

The partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming the North London Mental Health Partnership.

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.