Clinical Specialist (Nurse) | North London NHS Foundation Trust

The Camden & Islington Early Intervention Service is undergoing an exciting expansion, with the ambition to become a Gold Standard Service. Focused on delivering the Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) model, the service aims to reduce relapse rates, minimize inpatient admissions, and promote service user recovery through social inclusion and maximizing strengths and potential. We are looking for energetic, motivated, and skilled practitioners to join us in achieving this goal.

We have an exciting opportunity forfour Band 6 Clinical Nurse Specialiststo join the Islington Early Intervention Service, an innovative and dynamic team supporting individuals experiencing aFirst Episode of Psychosis (FEP). As a member of a well-established, multi-disciplinary team, you will work with a culturally diverse population in the London Borough of Islington, helping service users achieve both symptomatic and social recovery.

Key responsibilities include:

• Conducting early assessments, diagnoses, and providing treatment for FEP.

• Delivering person-centered, culturally sensitive care aimed at promoting stability, skill development, and social role enhancement.

• Facilitating both symptomatic and social recovery by actively engaging with service users.

• Reducing stigma and ensuring that initial service contact is supportive and non-disconcerting.

• Educating and involving carers in the service user’s care journey.

The Islington Early Intervention Service is deeply involved in research and activelyparticipatesin multi-center studies, allowing team members to engage withcutting-edgemental health initiatives.

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 postholder 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.

As aClinical Nurse Specialist, you will act as a care coordinator for a defined group of clients, working autonomously within a multi-disciplinary team. Ideal candidates will have a strong knowledge of health and psycho-social interventions for FEP and a desire to further develop skills in a community-based setting.

The role offers a supportive environment with clinical supervision, peer support, and access to the Early Intervention training program. Additionally, there are opportunities to contribute to the development and evaluation of group programs for service users.

Join us in making a real impact on mental health recovery in a forward-thinking and research-focused team.

This advert closes on Monday 11 May 2026