Crisis Intervention Nurse

Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust; Camberley; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 49,000; Full time

Job summary

Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a Band 7 Crisis Intervention Nurse on a 3-month Flexi-Bank contract based at the Theta Building, Camberley. The role involves 37.5 hours per week, 9am–5pm, with flexible shifts across Surrey.

You will deliver a 7-day crisis service for CYP, coordinate with paediatric wards, and provide leadership within a multidisciplinary team, supervising staff and ensuring high-quality care.

Qualifications

• Professional qualification as an RMN.
• Current NMC registration as RMN.
• Driving license.
• 3 years post-qualifying experience, 1 year in Band 6 in community.
• Experience working with CYP mental health crisis in the community.

Responsibilities

• Manage referrals and delivery of care.
• Supervise clinical staff across the Surrey-wide service.
• Provide a 7 day/week crisis intervention service for children and young people in crisis.
• Autonomous clinical assessment of CYP with complex needs in collaboration with MDT.

Skills

Crisis intervention

Mental health nursing

Clinical supervision

Education

NMC registered RMN

Tools

SystemOne

Job description

Main area Mental Health Practitioner Grade Band 7 Contract Bank: 3 months Hours Flexible working - 37.5 hours per week (5 days a week from 9Am to 5PM) Job ref 384-SVM-CYPS Crisis Line

Employer Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Theta Building, Lyon Way, Town Frimley, Camberley, Surrey Salary £30.35 Per Hour Salary period Hourly Closing 27/10/2026 23:59

Crisis Intervention Nurse

Band 7

Job overview

Important Information for Applicants: This vacancy is for Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (SaBP).

This role is offered through Flexi-Bank, a collaborative temporary staffing service delivered in partnership between Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust. Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust acts as the host provider and manages the recruitment, onboarding and administrative processes on behalf of Surrey and Borders.

Please note that although Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust branding may appear on this advert and within the recruitment system, successful applicants for this vacancy will undertake bank shifts for Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

Location: Theta Building, Lyon Way, Frimley, Camberley, Surrey GU16 7ER

Why join Flexi - Bank?

Work flexibly - choose shifts that suit your lifestyle and availability

Access more opportunities - pick up shifts across mental health and community

Get paid fairly and on time - competitive rates and fast access to earnings through Stream

Stay supported - benefit from training, development and guidance from our dedicated Temporary Staffing Team

Main duties of the job

Surrey and borders is looking for someone With resources available within a defined area deliver on the following key area, coordinate and lead team functioning with particular focus on;

• Management of referrals including delivery of care
• Supervision of clinical staff across the Surrey-wide service.
• Provision of a 7 day/week crisis intervention service, which offers assessments to children, young people and their families presenting in crisis in both local Paediatric wards and CYPS Community Team Bases

This job is Suitable for someone who is passionate about developing and providing high quality, evidence based Crisis Intervention care and treatment to young people with moderate to severe emotional and mental health problems.

Working for our organisation

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.

We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.

Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.

Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.

For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.

Would you like to work in an organisation that sits in the top 10 best NHS Mental Health, Learning Disability and Community Services Trusts to work for? This ranking is based on staff feedback in the 2023 NHS Staff Survey.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

The post holder will work closely with the CYPS Community Teams during office hours, responding to emergency referrals of young people presenting in crisis:

• The post holder will work as an autonomous practitioner, undertaking clinical assessment of children and young people who may have a complex co-morbid mental health needs and present in crisis, working alongside medical, nursing and other professional colleagues to ensure that the most effective care and treatment is provided resulting in safe, timely discharge
• To co-ordinate and liaise with Paediatric Wards and the Paediatric Liaison Nurses when children and young people with mental health issues are admitted.
• To work within a highly experienced MDT involved in the assessment and treatment of CYP with serious and complex mental health difficulties in crisis.
• To manage own caseload from referral to discharge/transfer, holding medium to high risk cases.
• Ensure that outcome measures for the team are implemented and audited. Contribute to relevant research and ensure that interventions on the pathway are evidence based.

Band 7 Leadership

• Lead on the setting, monitoring, and maintaining of standards of care and advise on clinical issues which may have a negative effect on the standards of clinical practice being delivere

• Provide clinical leadership for a range of clinicians in their specific area of practice, providing advice on all clinical issues within that service; support clinicians with updating their relevant knowledge and skills
• To support the wider Paediatric Team in ED and wards, by arranging training opportunities to up-skill all professionals on effectively managing CYP's mental health needs.
• Work in close liaison with the Paediatric Matron/staff to allocate safe and appropriate 'special' nursing care to CYP as required.
• To manage clinical situations that may be challenging and distressing for staff, ensuring the needs of the CYP and family/carers are paramount

• Support, supervise and mentor junior colleagues.
• To work collaboratively with the Manager/Matron to ensure that clinical governance processes at unit level encompass measures to ensure the quality of the fundamental and essential aspects of care are met.
• To communicate sensitive information to CYP and their families/carers.
• To respond sensitively to the needs of relatives and carers.
• To provide consultation to other professionals within CYPS Division.
• To maintain knowledge of relevant legislation in relation to the CYP including safeguarding the CYP and adults, child protection procedures and policies.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Professional qualification as an RMN
• Driving License suitable for use in the United Kingdom

Experience

• 3 years post qualifying experience, 1 of which must have been a year as a Band 6 in community.
• Experience working with CYP with mental health needs in the community.
• Undertaking mental health assessments, risk formulations, crisis and contingency planning and use of outcome measures.
• Working with other agencies
• Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
• Training others through various mediums
• Understanding of family functioning.
• Knowledge and awareness of Safeguarding procedures
• Experience of developing a plan of care to safeguard an adult or child

Skills

• SystemOne

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.