The Intensive Outreach Specialist provides responsive, community-based support to people experiencing significant mental-health difficulties, helping prevent hospital admission and support safe discharge. Responsibilities may include assessment, care planning, risk management, crisis intervention, coordination with families and partner services, accurate record keeping, and participation in multidisciplinary reviews. Candidates are generally expected to hold a relevant professional qualification, such as mental-health nursing, occupational therapy, social work, or another recognised clinical discipline, with appropriate UK registration where required. Experience in community or acute mental-health services, safeguarding, clinical risk assessment, and collaborative working is valuable. The role requires compassion, resilience, sound judgement, strong communication skills, flexibility for outreach work, and the ability to work shifts or extended hours when service needs require it.
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is a major NHS mental-health and community health provider serving people across North London. It delivers services for adults, older people, children and young people, including inpatient care, community mental-health support, crisis services, learning-disability services, rehabilitation, psychological therapies and specialist community programmes. The Trust works closely with local authorities, primary-care organisations, hospitals, voluntary-sector partners and patients to provide integrated, person-centred care. As an NHS Foundation Trust, NLFT combines public-service responsibilities with a focus on quality improvement, safety, staff development and service-user involvement. Its workforce includes clinicians, allied-health professionals, social-care specialists, administrators and operational teams. Employees typically receive NHS benefits, including occupational-pension access, annual leave, professional development opportunities and structured pay progression.
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