111 - RISE Crisis Mental Health Telephone Response Clinician

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust; Nuneaton and Bedworth; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A health service provider in the United Kingdom is seeking a Band 6 clinician to provide essential support for children and young people facing mental health crises. The ideal candidate will have expertise in crisis intervention, emotional support, and clinical supervision. This role offers generous annual leave, excellent learning opportunities, and various employee benefits aimed at supporting staff wellbeing.

Benefits

Generous annual leave

Excellent learning and development opportunities

Salary sacrifice schemes

Discounts with retailers

Wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Experience in providing telephone support in mental health.
• Ability to work under pressure and manage crises.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical triage and assessment via telephone.
• Support young people and families in distress.
• Deliver emotional support and facilitate referrals.

Skills

Clinical supervision

Crisis intervention

Emotional support

Education

Relevant clinical qualification

Job description

A Vacancy at Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust.

The Band 6 post is an integral function of providing telephone support and advice to Children and Young people up to 18 years old and their families/carers calling the 111 option two/crisis line seeking urgent help for their mental health. The post holder will provide initial triage as well as information, support, signposting, and advice about managing mental health. The post holder will be an integral part of the 111 service, providing additional clinical oversight and guidance to more junior team members and supporting the Team Lead as required. As a senior clinician within the 111 service, they will have clinical oversight of risk assessments, respond to urgent need for assessment, and provide clinical supervision to junior team members as well as completing the quality checks required and the data pulling for the national 111 reviews.

Responsibilities

• When a person calls 111/to the crisis line, the post holder provides clinical risk and mental state triage and assessment.
• Provide emotional support, onward urgent referral, transfer to 999, when necessary, for callers who need emergency and urgent mental health support in a crisis 12 hours a day, seven days a week.
• The post holder will be expert in de‑escalating crisis and supporting CYP and family/carers in distress and an emotional state.
• To work in partnership with others to assess and identify the child’s/young person’s needs, taking into account parenting capacity, environmental as well as the child’s/young person’s needs.
• Using a range of interventions to empower patients’ carers and families to manage distress and crisis effectively.
• Complete urgent risk assessments as indicated following robust triage of the call in line with CWPT/RISE procedures and risk assessment policies.
• To identify areas of need for CYP and their families and to assist their being able to access appropriate services for support.
• Champion patients’ rights, including dignity, equality, diversity, choice, and respect.
• Provide advice and guidance on mental health problems.
• To act always in such a way as to promote and safeguard the wellbeing and interests of CYP and their families/carers in accordance with national occupational standards.
• Work without direct supervision to deliver triage of patients via the telephone.

At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.

We put ‘people at our heart’; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.

Benefits

• Generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us.
• Excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more.
• Salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more.
• Discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes.
• Wellbeing support, including an in‑house counselling service, external helpline and more.
• Staff networks and support groups.

We’re always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.

This advert closes on Friday 14 Nov 2025.