Job overview

We are really pleased to be offering this exciting full-time (10 PA) Consultant post in the Haringey Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team (CRHTT).  This post has become available due to the resignation of the previous post holder. The CRHTT provides urgent crisis assessments and intensive support aiming to avert the need for inpatient admission, when safety possible.

At North London NHS Foundation Trust we provide integrated mental health services to the people of North Central London, as well as some services regionally and nationally.   We employ almost 6000 staff, which makes us one of the largest employers in our area. We provide our services to children, adults, and older people from over 20 sites. We support people to overcome the hurdles they face with their health and wellbeing. We support them to get back into the community and to live as independently as they can. We aim to give people the skills they need to look after themselves with our support in the community. When they need a higher level of care, we provide that on our wards. The wards are found at Edgware Community Hospital; Barnet General Hospital (Springwell Centre); Chase Farm Hospital; and St. Ann’s Hospital, Highgate East and Highgate West. 

Main duties of the job

We provide a wide range of local and more specialist mental health services, including helping people with serious mental illness (SMI), personality disorders, drug and alcohol recovery, children’s mental health issues, dementia, eating disorders, learning disabilities, ADHD and suicide prevention. The Trust has an overall Care Quality Commission (CQC) rating as ‘Good’ from 2019 and retained the ‘good’ rating in 2022. It also runs the North London Forensic Service (NLFS), which the CQC has rated as Outstanding. The London Borough of Haringey in 2018 had an estimated population of 270, 624. It is a very diverse population with a rich history which we at BEH embrace. We are very proud of our strong community ties and the number of our staff that choose to work here who are linked within the immediate community. 
The St Ann’s site houses both community services and outpatient mental health services. It has a continued programme of improvement and renovation and houses the trusts headquarters, research and development site and trust library in addition to a recent new canteen. 
Over the past three years the Trust has invested over £20 million in redeveloping the St Ann’s site. The new hospital, Blossom Court, houses 4 wards; 3 general 18 bedded adult acute wards and Iris ward, a bespoke eating disorders ward.

Working for our organisation

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. 

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.