Crisis Intervention Practitioner

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Redhill; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking passionate Band 7 Crisis Intervention Nurses to join their dynamic team. This role involves leading assessments and interventions for children and young people facing emotional and mental health crises. With a supportive environment and structured career progression, you will play a crucial part in facilitating safe discharges and follow-up care in the community. Enjoy the benefits of a Golden Hello payment and the opportunity to develop your skills in a rewarding setting. If you're ready to make a difference, this is the perfect opportunity for you!

Benefits

Golden Hello Payment

Structured Career Progression

Training Packages

Qualifications

• Professional registration with NMC, HCPC, or SWE required.
• Experience working with vulnerable people in crisis essential.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support assessments and care planning for young people in crisis.
• Support junior staff in providing high-quality care and training.

Skills

Crisis Intervention

Assessment Skills

Experience with Children and Young People

Risk Management

Supervision and Training

Education

Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN)

Social Worker Registration

Occupational Therapist Registration

Job description

Join Our Team as a Band 7 Crisis Intervention Nurse

Due to exciting changes, we are seeking Band 7 Crisis Intervention Nurses within the Mindworks Crisis Intervention Service for Surrey.

Are you an RMN, Social Worker, or Occupational Therapist with experience working with Children and Young People, looking to lead and support assessments and interventions for young people in crisis?

Our team provides a 7-day-a-week crisis intervention service, offering discovery conversations to children, young people, and their families presenting with emotional and mental health crises in local acute hospitals and community bases. Our operational hours are 9am to 5pm, Monday to Sunday, including Bank Holidays. There will be one late shift until 8pm every two weeks. Unsocial and weekend shifts are expected.

The successful candidate will hold an appropriate professional registration with NMC, HCPC, or SWE. Experience and competence in working with vulnerable people in crisis are essential, as is experience working with children and young people.

There has never been a better time to join our developing and dynamic Crisis Intervention service. Set within our friendly and supportive teams, we encourage enthusiastic applicants to apply.

Positions Available

• 2 x Full-time positions at Gatton Place, Redhill
• 2 x Full-time positions at 18 Mole Business Park, Leatherhead
• 1 x Full-time position at Azalea House, Guildford
• 1 x Full-time position at Unither House, Chertsey

Main Duties

The main duties include leading and supporting assessment, risk and care planning alongside Children and Young People (CYPS), their families or carers, and the acute staff to safely facilitate discharge with follow-up care planned in the community.

Supporting junior staff to provide high-quality care, sharing learning, developing skills through supervision and training, maintaining KPIs, and collecting data to support service growth and development are key aspects of this role. These posts offer structured career progression with recognized training packages, including modules in Crisis intervention with young people, DBT skills, and opportunities to join CYPIAPT.

Golden Hello

We are pleased to offer a Golden Hello payment of £3,000 (pro-rata) for this vacancy, available to external candidates only. Payment will be made in three installments. Further details are available in the supporting documents.

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 learning disabilities in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.

We actively engage with service users and communities to improve mental wellbeing. We work closely with NHS and voluntary sector organizations to support people who use our services and their carers.

Surrey is a beautiful county just 30 minutes from Central London and the South Coast, with historic market towns, countryside, and excellent transport links, including Gatwick and Heathrow airports.

Application Details

Please note that we reserve the right to close posts once sufficient applications are received. Working from home contracts do not attract high-cost area payments.

We look forward to receiving your application! For further details or informal visits, contact:

• Name: Caroline Musendo
• Job Title: GM for CIS and PLN Service
• Email: [e-mail]
• Telephone: [phone]