Clinical specialist | North London NHS Foundation Trust

We are looking for skilled and dynamic Clinical Specialists with a passion for delivering outstanding patient care, and a commitment to least restrictive practice and acting in the patient’s best interest. You will

be required to complete trauma informed psychosocial assessments and develop safe and effective collaborative plans with service users. The service acknowledges that we often see people at their most vulnerable and as such it is essential that we provide, compassionate and trauma informed care.

The service is dynamic and fast paced and the role, therefore, requires stamina, resilience, and the ability to work in a joined-up way with Trust services as well as with our acute hospital colleagues.

As a central London service, you will see the complete spectrum of mental health presentations from people with very diverse backgrounds and as such you will need to be someone mindful of cultural differences.

Clinical/Practice

The post-holder will

1. Have theoretical knowledge of mental health liaison emergency and ward-based work deploying a wide range of theoretical

approaches and utilise a

wide variety of clinical skills appropriate to the needs of individual patients

and the clinical setting in which they are required to be seen.

2. Be accountable and take direct responsible for carrying out specialist assessments including risk assessments unsupervised.

Develop, implement, evaluate, and document specialist care.

3. Undertake PMVA techniques to prevent and manage escalation in terms of

patient harm to self and others.

4. Work closely with the NCL wide crisis services and maintain good working

practices with all other CRTs as a means of ensuring least restrictive

practice and outcomes.

5. Make autonomous decisions with regard to the admission and discharge of

patients based on an analysis of complex presenting problems, and

judgement about available options within agreed protocols. Direct and guide

junior doctors on rotation with the service (including locums).

6. Provide a consultation-liaison and assessment service to clinicians and

clinical teams within the general hospital. This will include giving specialist

advice on a range of care, treatment and patient management issues.

Please refer to the attached JD and person specification for more details about the role and main duties of the job.

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

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

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.

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.

This advert closes on Tuesday 9 Jun 2026