# Assistant Practitioner - Drayton Park Women's Crisis House > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for North London NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/assistant-practitioner-drayton-park-womens-crisis-house/f589a90b-b076-4988-9fb7-125fd63baf58 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/assistant-practitioner-drayton-park-womens-crisis-house/f589a90b-b076-4988-9fb7-125fd63baf58.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** North London NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** St Pancras Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Mental health professionals - **Grade:** Band 4 - **Salary:** £33,262 - £36,027 per annum inclusive of Outer London HCAS - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (The post holder will be required to work shifts based on a 24hr shift pattern, e.g early, late, night shifts) - **Closing date:** 2026-10-12T07:00:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-28T10:00:47.100Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/North_London_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Assistant_Practitioner_Drayton_Park_Womens_Crisis_House/Assistant_Practitioner_Drayton_Park_Womens_Crisis_House-v7997929 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/7997929?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview We are looking for highly motivated Assistant Practitioners and clinical support workers to join the Drayton Park Women’s Crisis House and Resource centre. The ideal candidates will be mainly working with supervision from senior staff to coordinate the residential stay, alongside colleagues, of a case load of women in mental health crisis. This will include offering one to one sessions, participating in risk assessments, collaborative planning, children and families liaison and referring on to a range of services for women. ### Main duties of the job The post holder will also take referrals and co assess women who are referred to the service in mental health crisis. You would need to demonstrate a respect for women who use mental health services and work within an empowerment model, building on the strengths and expertise of women who use or have used services. You are expected to have knowledge of trauma informed approaches and an understanding of how trauma impacts on mental health, physical health and social circumstances for women. The ability to prioritise your workload whilst maintaining a degree of flexibility to accommodate competing demands of the service when they arise. You are expected to have knowledge of national and local policies in relation to women’s mental health, the violence against women and girl’s agenda and in safeguarding children and vulnerable adults. You are expected to have excellent communication skills, demonstrating an ability to understand complex information and to converse with a wide variety of people from different contexts. You need to have confidence in using computerised patient record systems and also have excellent written skills. You will be able to use your initiative, within a team setting and be able to engage with the role after a short induction to carry out a role that is multi-functional and has a variety of duties competing for your time and energy. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please refer to the attached Job description and Person Specification for main responsibilities of the role. For further information or to arrange a visit please contact Shirley McNicholas or Georgia Carson on 0207 607 2777 G.Carson@nhs.net or Shirley.McNicholas@nhs.net You can also search on the internet under Drayton Park Women’s Crisis House for further reading. The post is only open to female applicants and is exempt from the Sex Discrimination Act. ### Applicant requirements 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. ## Person Specification ### Skills / Abilities **Essential** - Excellent verbal, non-verbal and written communication skill - Able to work on own initiative - Able to work as part of a team and demonstrate the importance of a team approach - Ability to maintain boundaries and form positive therapeutic relationships with service users and carers - Competent using computers and keyboards for entering personally generated data, generating and responding to emails, conducting web searches etc. - Motivated and enthusiastic about working in a trauma informed service ### Education/Qualifications **Essential** - Registered mental health professional qualification or Nationally recognised qualifications in relevant/identified posts (teaching, City and guilds, sports coaching) or Equivalent level experience **Desirable** - Current Level 1/2 Safeguarding Children and Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults certificates or willingness to undertake - Evidence of studies or learning about mental health, trauma or domestic and sexual abuse. ### Knowledge and Experience **Essential** - Demonstrable experience working with individuals with mental health issues in a community, in-patient, or substance misuse care setting - To demonstrate a sound knowledge base in relation to factors that cause mental health problems for woman and trauma informed therapeutic models. - Demonstrable understanding and experience of assessment and management of risk and planning care needs **Desirable** - Demonstrate a clear understanding of current Mental Health legislation and its application / use in practice - To demonstrate an understanding of the interventions needs to meet the physical health needs of woman with mental health or substance addictions problems. ## Documents - [functional requirement (pdf, 261.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10282576) - [a comprehensive guide for candidates (pdf, 544.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2959) - [assistant practitioner - drayton park women's crisis house (pdf, 424.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10282577) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.