Job overview
The Health Based Place of Safety is a nurse-led service in North London NHS Foundation Trust with the remit of providing assessments and care for service users detained by the police under sections 135 and 136 of the Mental Health Act.
Service users presenting to HBPoS are often in an acute phase of crisis and require high quality assessment and intensive care for a period of 24 hours.
Responsibilities
* Safe and effective triage process for all service users referred to the service.
* Conducting high quality mental health assessments of all service users.
* Developing effective risk assessment and risk management plans for service users during admission and on discharge.
* Ensuring high quality physical health assessment and ongoing physical health care during admission.
* Providing high quality handovers to SPR and AMHPs and timely referrals for Mental Health Act assessments and sourcing of beds.
* Effective shift coordination and management of a team of 3 staff.
* Providing clinical supervision up to 2 staff.
* Escalating breaches and incidents effectively.
* Mentoring nursing students.
* Taking a clinical lead role within the team.
* Supporting the manager in roster management, phase reviews, team audits and team quality improvement projects.
About us
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:
* We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
* With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all.
* We will offer great places to work, providing staff with a supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
* 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 falls 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.
Details
Date posted: 30 September 2025
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 6
Salary: £44,485 to £52,521 a year inclusive of HCAS
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 455-NLFT-0363-A
Job locations: Highgate West Mental Health Centre, Darthmouth Park Hill, London, N19 5NX
Job responsibilities
* To provide expert care in an area of designated expertise, in accordance with NMC or HPC codes of professional conduct.
* To provide expert, autonomous and highly specialist clinical practice within a multidisciplinary team, including:
* Initial assessment and formulation using a range of mental health or other specialist tools.
* When required to make appropriate judgments about own day-to-day caseload.
* To assess, plan, implement and evaluate care in negotiation with service users, carers and other services, considering the needs of a diverse community.
* Apply a range of therapeutic modalities, using evidence-based interventions in accordance with the requirements of service line care pathways.
* Maintaining contemporaneous records to the standard required by the trust and the relevant professional body where appropriate to the post holder.
This is not an exhaustive list, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.
Person specification
Essential
* Qualifications
Desirable
* Nurse Assessor/mentor
Experience
* Essential: Experience of carrying out comprehensive mental health assessments; experience of effective shift coordination; experience of providing clinical supervision; experience of liaising effectively with NHS and non-NHS organisations.
Desirable
* Experience in the use of PMVA and the management of violence and aggression.
Skills
* Essential: Able to demonstrate effective de-escalation skills and the use of least restrictive practice; able to guide and support junior staff to provide safe and effective care; able to multi-task and provide high quality care to service users whilst coordinating administrative tasks.
Desirable
* Ability to perform ECG and phlebotomy.
Other information
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled Worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
UK Registration: Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
Employer details
North London NHS Foundation Trust
Highgate West Mental Health Centre
Darthmouth Park Hill
London
N19 5NX
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