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Job summary

Main area
Adult Mental Health Services
Grade
Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Full time
  • Part time
37.5 hours per week (Day and night working 11.5 hour shifts)
Job ref
346-NYA-267-23-D
Employer
Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Foss Park Hospital
Town
York
Salary
£35,392 - £42,618 pro rata, per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
01/05/2024 23:59

Employer heading

Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Trust logo

Crisis Clinician

Band 6

We are the Mental Health & Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York and Selby.

From education and prevention, to crisis and specialist care —our talented and compassionate teams work in partnership with our patients, communities and partners to help the people of our region feel safe, understood, believed in and cared for.

We nurture the recovery journey of anyone in need of our help. In Our Trust, everyone has a say in how they are supported and treated because we listen to every person in our care until they feel understood. Our patients, their families and carers work together with us towards better mental health.

We’re committed to new thinking that improves the wellbeing of our region. We connect with our communities and partners to get mental health care right, in areas that really need it.

We won’t rest until everyone in our region has the mental health care they need, to lead their best possible life.

Job overview

We are looking for caring, compassionate, energetic and motivated individuals who are 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 24/7 providing an All Age Crisis 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.

Main duties of the job

  • 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 Based Treatment 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.

Working for our organisation

We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family.

We want you to feel like you are part of a close knit team at TEWV.

It's important to us that you valued and appreciated and that are why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer

Some of our benefits are highlighted here:

  • 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.

Other benefits include:

  • Counselling services
  • Wellbeing events
  • Long service awards
  • Cycle to work scheme

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.

 

Person specification

Qualification

Essential criteria
  • Current professional registration with an approved professional body.
  • Evidence of Continuing Professional Development.
  • Clinical Supervisor.
  • 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.
  • Key skills in literacy, numeracy and ITQ level 2 (or equivalent)
  • Recognised sign-off mentor, clinical educator or equivalent. Must be achieved within agreed timescale
Desirable criteria
  • Leadership or management qualification.
  • Post-graduate qualification in a relevant area.

Skills

Essential criteria
  • 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.

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Minimum 1 year post qualifying experience in working with people with mental ill health
  • Provide clinical supervision to individuals or groups in a professional setting
  • Minimum of 6 months experience working within a community mental health setting
Desirable criteria
  • Current or previous experience working within a Crisis Team as a Clinician

Employer certification / accreditation badges

We are a Living Wage EmployerApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleAge positiveImproving working livesMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employer

Applicant requirements

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.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Vicky Ellis
Job title
Team Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01904 461133
Additional information

 

 

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