Crisis Team Clinical Specialist | North London NHS Foundation Trust


Company:	Camden And Islington NHS Foundation Trust
Salary:	£47,951 - £56,863 per annum inclusive of HCAS
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	London, NW5 3EG
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	6 Nov 2026
Closing date:	10 Dec 2026

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Summary

Band 6 - Crisis Team Clinical Specialist

We have a number of exciting opportunities available in our Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team in the vibrant and diverse inner London borough of Camden.

Our Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team and integrated Crisis Single Point of Access provides a vital service to those experiencing mental ill health. The team provide intensive support to adults experiencing a mental health crisis within their own communities as an alternative to hospital admission. We operate 24 hours a day, 365 days per year.

If you are a nurse, social worker or OT and have experience working in an acute or community mental health setting and are looking for that exciting next move in your career do drop us a line to find out more.

If you are newly qualified and think you may be up for the challenge of starting your career as a crisis team clinical practitioner, then we would love to hear from you too!

We are looking for flexibility in commitment to the 24 hour / 7 day a week working pattern across assessment, home treatment and our CSPA telephone service including nights and weekend working.

By working in a multidisciplinary CRHTT you will develop strong leadership and dynamic risk assessment & clinical management skills .You will contribute to the effective management of service users across a sharedcaseloadand formulate appropriate specific, highly specialist care and treatment plans; providing highly skilled and specialist interventions and care to service users with acute mental health problems.

You willprovide direct care to service users with acute mental health problems in their homes and community settings. and ensurethat safe, evidence based, effective, culturally competent care is deliveredin a timely mannerto service users.

You will have the opportunity to contribute to governance and audit within the team, ensuring that team members are supported and developed to their potential and that new team members are comprehensively inducted and successfully integrated into the team. You will regularlytake a lead in organising the shift for the team and provide clinical supervision and support to junior staff.

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

The post holder will be aligned with our Values:

• 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 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.

You will have the opportunity to work across the different aspects of the CRHTT service which includes:

Crisis Hub

A 24/7 telephone service offering support, advice and signposting for people in crisis as well as triaging referrals and booking in face to face CRHTT assessments.

Assessments

Undertaking holistic assessments of people in crisis and deciding on collaborative treatment plans as an alternative to acute inpatient care or signposting to appropriate other community or third sector services.

Home Treatment Team

Working as part of a supportive multidisciplinary team to deliver high-quality person-centred care. You will be using and offered training around the use of CBT/DBT, de-escalation techniques, managing risks, brief supportive counselling skills to work towards shared treatment goals with the service user within their social system.

This advert closes on Sunday 22 Nov 2026

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