Newly Qualified Nurse

Main area: Mental Health

Grade Band: 5

Contract: Permanent

Required to have NMC PIN

Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (May be required to work over 24 hour shift pattern depending on ward/team)

Job ref: 455-NQN-2025

Employer: 455 North London NHS Foundation Trust

Employer type: NHS

Site: Various sites within NLFT

Town: London

Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 per annum plus Inner/Outer London HCAS dependent on location

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 21/04/2025 23:59

Newly Qualified Nurse

Band 5

Thank you for your interest in the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). It is an exciting time to join us and be part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we:

• Collaborate at every level by living our Values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
• Develop our new Trust culture to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
• Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
• Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
• Ensure that research, Quality Improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
• Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do.

We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all, including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers, and more.

The North London Way to deliver: Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.

We currently have an exciting range of vacancies available for newly qualifying nurses across various services within NLFT.

If you are looking for a diverse workforce focused on quality improvement, learning, patient care, and staff development in a dynamic organisation, then this is the place to be!

What we offer:

A Newly Qualified Nurse Preceptorship Programme:

We understand that being a newly qualified practitioner can feel quite daunting and bring challenges. We also recognise that the transition to registered practitioner is exciting and unique to each person. To help support you, we have developed a bespoke preceptorship programme, which includes:

• Preceptorship support in the workplace
• Provision of a range of learning materials
• Our preceptorship programme has received the Quality Mark from Capital Nurse.

We are looking for applications from enthusiastic, highly motivated newly qualified nurses with a desire to develop and progress in their careers.

Main duties of the job

Opportunity to gain experience in a wide range of clinical settings:

We employ staff in both inpatient and community settings across a variety of areas including:

• Primary care
• Specialist community services including Trauma Services and Veterans Mental Health

Core to the Registered Nurse role is:

• The establishment of therapeutic relationships with service users and carers as core to the role and our interventions
• Assessment, formulation, planning, implementation, and evaluation of client care based on therapeutic engagement, coproduction, and best practice
• An ongoing commitment to responsive, safe, and high standard of nursing care.
• Effective partnership working with service users, carers, the multidisciplinary team, and a range of external agencies
• A commitment to continuous professional development.

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:

• 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.

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 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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Refer to the job description and person specification by clicking on the JD/PS attachment in the advert.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Experience of working within a mental health setting (as a student for newly qualified staff)
• Identify, initiate, and manage effective practice in a patient-centred way

Knowledge

• Knowledge of implementing clinical Policies and Procedures
• Working knowledge of MHA 1983
• Knowledge of the principles of diversity to be applied to clinical and workplace practice in relationships with service users, their relatives, carers, and colleagues

Skills

• Able to demonstrate an understanding of the personal and clinical needs of individual service users, their relatives, and carers
• Ability to effectively run the ward as and when necessary
• To make balanced judgements and decisions
• Ability to communicate effectively with staff at all levels

If you believe you meet the criteria of the person specification and job description and would like to join the North London NHS Foundation Trust at this time, we would be interested in receiving your application.

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts, we reserve the right to close any vacancies before the stated closing date. Therefore, please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.

In line with NHS protocols, only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview. We regret that it is not possible to contact all applicants for every vacancy. If you have not been contacted within 4 weeks of the closing date, please assume you have not been shortlisted for the next stage.

Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you are eligible under the UKVI points-based system.

Please note, in order to progress your application your data will be processed by our 3rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of North London NHS Foundation Trust. As part of pre-employment checks your identity and right to work documentation will be verified remotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a 'selfie' using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating.

References will be required to cover your last 3 years of employment/training. One has to be from your current or most recent employer and the others from your previous employer. The references should be from persons with management responsibility or HR.

The Trust uses electronic new starter forms to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the HR system.

By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name: Jo Pollock

Job title: Preceptorship and Standards Development Lead Nurse

Email address: jo.pollock2@nhs.net

Telephone number: 07799341739

Additional information:

Name: Grace Asiedu

Job title: Practice Education Facilitator

Email address: g.asiedu@nhs.net

Telephone number: 07909445568

If you have problems applying, contact:

Address: Projects, Sponsorships, Medical and Dental Rotations Pre-Employment Checks

Telephone: If you have any queries, please contact NLPSS Recruitment Helpdesk tel. 020 3758 2060