Crisis Clinician

NHS; York and North Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Part time

Job summary

A healthcare service provider in the UK is seeking a part-time Crisis Clinician to join their team in York. This role focuses on providing evidence-based interventions to support individuals during mental health crises. The ideal candidate will have significant experience working with mental health issues and the ability to provide clinical leadership. Salary ranges from £38,682 to £46,580 per year pro rata.

Benefits

Generous pay and pension package

Flexible working options

Career development opportunities

NHS discounts

Counselling services

Qualifications

• Must be a Mental Health Nurse or Allied Health professional registered with NMC, HCPC or SWE.
• 18 months post qualifying experience with sign off of preceptorship.
• Recognised sign-off mentor or clinical educator.

Responsibilities

• Provide rapid assessment and clinical interventions.
• Ensure timely and effective individual episodes of care.
• Act as advocate for patients and relatives.

Skills

Experience with mental health patients

Leadership skills

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Education

Current professional registration

Evidence of Continuing Professional Development

MIP/FLIP/ENB 998 or equivalent

Job description

Job summary

We are currently looking for a part time (20.5 hours) Crisis Clinician to join the Crisis Team in York.

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.

Candidates must have 18 months post qualifying experience including sign off of appropriate preceptorship or competency framework.

This is a pivotal role with the acute services pathway as our team is focused on providing evidence 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.

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.

About us

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.

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 through the Health Service Discounts website.

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

Details

Date posted: 07 November 2025

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 6

Salary: £38,682 to £46,580 a year pro rata, per annum

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Part‑time

Reference number: 346‑NYA‑185‑25‑A

Job location: Foss Park Hospital, Haxby Road, York, YO31 8TA

Essential qualifications

• 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).

Desirable qualifications

• Leadership or management qualification.
• Post‑graduate qualification in a relevant area.

Essential knowledge and skills

• Demonstrable knowledge to post‑graduate level of evidence‑based practice in caring for patients in the designated field.
• 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.

Essential experience

• 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.

Disclosures and Sponsorship

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.