Crisis Practitioner

Doncaster Source: WhatJobs

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Employer Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Onyx Centre Town Doncaster Salary £39,959 - £48,117 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 18/10/ :59

NHS AfC: Band 6

Job overview

37.5 hours per week 24-hour

As part of unplanned mental health services in Doncaster we are able to offer a rare opportunity for motivated professionals to join Doncaster Crisis Team.

The role will involve the triage assessment and intervention of service users in crisis and will involve telephone, home visits and assessments in A&E.

We are seeking to recruit dynamic and positive practitioners to support in this new service.

We are looking to recruit a permanent Band 6 qualified practitioner who is enthusiastic and highly motivated to join our busy team and who has a passion and desire to work with individuals in crisis within the community delivering a caring and safe service.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for passionate, reliable and progressive staff who work within a strengths and recovery based approach.

Liaison with families and supporting their understanding of crisis management is an important part of the role.

The post will require individuals to work alongside partner organisations, third sector and peer support services, transparency and openness is vital.

This is a great time to begin working in the Crisis Service as we are starting to embark in change around the community working age model and you will have the opportunity to contribute and lead in some of these changes.

Working for our organisation

Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust (RDaSH) employ around 4000 talented colleagues who are very much appreciated, valued, and respected.

We have a wide portfolio which includes mental health, physical health, learning disability and drug and alcohol services.

We are passionate about enhancing the quality of our service and we work hard to attract and select the right colleagues for our organisation. Our goal is to employ those who share our passion for providing first class care while remaining committed to our vision and values. Please view our Strategy using the link below:

To find out more about working for RDaSH and the fantastic benefits we offer visit our website:

We are committed to inclusive cultures and really value people in our organisation, view our Allyship video on YouTube to find out more:

The main terms and conditions of service can be found here:

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please view the attached job description and person specification to view the full details about the role

We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if there are a high amount of applications

Person specification

Qualifications

Registered Mental Health Nurse
Current professional registration
Evidence of continued professional development
Risk assessment and management training
Therapies skills training/ qualification
Psychosocial interventions
Suicide prevention training
STORM
Supervision training

Experience

Extensive experience of working in Mental health settings
Demonstrable experience of case managing people presenting in mental health crisis
Substantial experience of leading in risk assessment and risk management planning
Co-producing care plans and crisis plans alongside client and families
Multi-agency working
Experience of working across service boundaries with local authorities, voluntary sector and peer support services
Involving service users and carers in care delivery
Experience of working within a crisis service
Experience of acute inpatient experience
Working with service users and carers in service improvement
Values based recruitment

Knowledge

Excellent knowledge of mental illness, signs and symptoms
Excellent mental health assessment and risk assessment skills
Excellent Knowledge of a range of evidence based treatments and therapies relevant to service
Excellent knowledge around harm minimisation
Understanding of self-harming behaviours and the management of this
Experience of working with trauma and a high degree of knowledge
Models of care relevant to working with people in mental health crisis
A sound knowledge of the Mental Health Act
A sound knowledge of the Mental Capacity Act
Knowledge of the current policy and guidance in relation to the development of Mental Health Services
Excellent knowledge of community resources both statutory and non- statutory
Detailed understanding of the principles of recovery
Evidence of continuing professional development
Family education training
Care Act
Self-harming intervention
Mood masters
Experience of working within Trauma informed services

Skills

Assessing, formulating and working with people presenting in heightened state of distress
Clinical risk assessment and contingency planning
Brief psychological interventions/strategies for managing crisis
Ability to manage high expressed emotions and severely challenging behaviours
Ability to provide appropriate education and training to qualified and unqualified staff as appropriate
Communicating (oral and written) complex/highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
Ability to understand the importance of relatives and partners involvement in care and risk assessment and management planning
Ability to undertake a full range of physical interventions e.g. moving and handling and reducing restrictive interventions
Ability to demonstrate effective time management and disciplined self-organisation
Ability to value diversity and respond constructively to discriminatory behaviour
Ability to deal with verbal aggression
To have excellent engagement abilities
To poses an interest in individuals and a passion for delivering high quality services
To work as part of an MDT
Mood masters

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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.