Employer: Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust
Position: Crisis Clinician
Salary: £39,959 – £48,117 per year
Job Type: Permanent, Part-time
Work location: Cross Lane, Scarborough
FULL JOB DESCRIPTION
We are looking for a caring, compassionate, energetic and motivated individual who is passionate about improving the mental health of our service users. This is a band 6 post open to Mental Health Nurses, and Allied Health professionals who are currently registered with the NMC, HCPC or SWE.
This is a pivotal role with the acute services pathway as our team is focused on providing evidenced based interventions with the aim to prevent and reduce difficulties experienced by service users and carers during mental health crisis.
The team operates over a 24/7 period providing an All AgeCrisis telephone service, Crisis Assessment Service, Health Based Place of Safety and Intensive Home Treatment pathway.
The service can be fast paced, and the ideal applicant will be extremely organised and self-motivated to provide high quality assessment, triage and formulation for service users accessing our service.
The post holder will be responsible for the clinical leadership of more junior members of the team, prioritising workload and utilising resources appropriately to ensure that service user needs are met.
You will be well supported, with continuing opportunities for your on-going professional development.
You will be offered a staff induction period, during which you will be supernumerary whilst existing team members support you to share your existing knowledge and skills with the team whilst providing you the opportunity to learn and develop new skills from others.
Your Responsibilities include:
• Provide rapid assessment and brief evidence based clinical interventions
• Responsibility for the development, planning and implementation of brief care and treatment interventions for individual patients within the Intensive Home BasedTreatment Pathway.
• Ensure that individual episodes of care are delivered in a timely, effective and integrated manner.
• Promote a recovery model that empowers patients, carers and relatives to be at the forefront of decision making and ownership of their packages of care and treatment.
• Undertake clinical risk assessments, based on latest empirical evidence and compliant with local policies and procedures.
• Act as the patients and relatives advocate.
• Enable patients and carers to manage disability, loss and change.
• Champion patients’ rights, including: dignity, equality, diversity, choice and respect.
• When undertaking all of the above ensure good documentation is provided and entered within the appropriate systems of record sharing.
Work Schedule
Part-time permanent role operating 24/7 service.
You Will Have
• Significant experience working with people with mental ill health in a community setting
• Working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers
• Providing clinical supervision to individuals or groups as professionally appropriate.
• Mentoring or facilitating students on practice placement.
• Working in a multi-disciplinary team
• Quality improvement activities
• Leadership or management experience
Requirements
• Current professional registration with an approved professional body.
• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development.
• For registered nurses: MIP, FLIP, ENB 998 Teaching & Assessing in Clinical Practice or City & Guilds 730 Teaching in Adult Education. Must be achieved within agreed timescale.
• 18 months post qualifying experience including sign off of appropriate preceptorship or competency framework
• Clinical Supervisor
• Recognised sign-off mentor, clinical educator or equivalent. Must be achieved within agreed timescale
• Key skills in literacy, numeracy and ITQ level 2 (or equivalent)
• Leadership or management qualification.
• Post-graduate qualification in a relevant area.
• Provide leadership, monitor, co-ordinate and prioritise the activities of a team.
• Communicate complex and sensitive information effectively to patients, carers/families and all members of the multidisciplinary team.
• Work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team and undertake lead professional responsibilities.
• Provide effective clinical supervision, teaching, training and assessing in clinical practice
• Write reports
• Use multimedia materials for presentations in professional settings
• Use approved breakaway techniques
Benefits
• Generous pay, pensions and leave, we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package.
• Work life balance, flexible working and support a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working and job sharing.
• Career development, there are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes.
• Car lease, our staff benefits from competitive deals to lease cars
• NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands though Health Service Discounts website.
• Counselling services
• Wellbeing events
• Long service awards
• Cycle to work scheme
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
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Application Process
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