Crisis Intervention Practitioner Neh

Sabp

Aldershot

On-site

GBP 52,000 - 59,000

Full time

10 days ago

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Job summary

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Band 7 Crisis Intervention Nurse for the Mindworks Crisis Intervention Service in the North East Hants area. The role involves assessment, risk management, and care planning for CYP in emotional and mental health crisis, with 7-day service delivery and outreach to local hospitals and communities.

You will hold RMN registration with the NMC and have experience in crisis work with vulnerable youths; driving licence is essential for

Qualifications

NMC registered RMN with current registration.
UK driving licence.
Experience in crisis work with vulnerable people (desirable).

Responsibilities

Lead and support assessment, risk and care planning for CYP in crisis with families/carers and acute staff.
Coordinate discharge planning with follow-up care in the community within 7 days.
Provide supervision and training to junior staff and support service KPIs and data collection.
Develop and contribute to crisis/contingency plans and signposting to longer-term services.

Skills

RMN registration

Driving licence

Job description

Job summary

Due to exciting changes, we are seeking Band 7 Crisis Intervention Nurses within the Mindworks Crisis Intervention Service for the North East Hants area.

About Mindworks Alliance

The Mindworks Alliance is a partnership between traditional CAMHS Services and third sector/voluntary agencies working to meet the emotional and mental health needs of CYP in Surrey and now NE Hants.

Our team provide a 7-day week Crisis Intervention Service, offering discovery conversations to CYP & their families/carers presenting with emotional and mental health crisis in local acute hospitals and community bases.

Our operational hours are 9am-5pm Monday-Sunday including Bank Holidays. Unsocial and weekend shifts will be expected and we use the e-roster system to ensure you are aware of your shifts. Your main base will be Aldershot Centre for Health, though you will be expected to in reach to Frimley Park Hospital and homes of CYP.

The successful candidate will hold an appropriate professional registration with NMC as an RMN. Experience and competence in working with vulnerable people in crisis is essential. Working with young people in crisis is desirable.

Main duties of the job

The main duties within this role are leading and supporting assessment, risk and care planning alongside CYP, their family/carers and the acute staff to safely facilitate discharge with follow up care planned in the community within 7 days. Where appropriate you will offer up to 6 follow up sessions with the CYP and ensure referral and signposting to appropriate services for longer term follow up is put in place and supportive discharge/transfer facilitated.

Supporting junior staff to provide high quality care, sharing learning and developing skills through supervision and training while maintaining KPI's and collecting data to support the service growth and development are all part of this exciting role. These posts offer structured career progression with recognised training packages including CPD modules in assessment and risk assessment of adolescents and DBT-A. Our Trust offers many development opportunities for future leadership career pathways too.

About us

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.

Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.

Working from home contracts do not attract high cost area payments.

Job 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 in close collaboration with the Mindworks Intensive Intervention Teams and the wider alliance partners, Paediatric Health Liaison Nurses, local authorities and emergency services in developing robust crisis and contingency plans/ My Safety Plans.

Please see attached job description document for more details.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

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

Experience

Essential

Significant post qualifying experience, some of which must have been as a Band 6 in community.
Experience in undertaking mental health assessments, risk formulations, crisis and contingency planning and use of outcome measures.
Experience working with CYP with mental health needs in crisis within the community

Desirable

Working with other agencies and as part of a multi-disciplinary team
Able to train others through various mediums
Good understanding of family functioning
Knowledge and awareness of Safeguarding procedures
Experience of developing a plan of care to safeguard an adult or child

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Aldershot Centre for Health
Hospital Hill
Aldershot
GU11 1AY
United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.sabp.nhs.uk/working-for-us (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

GM for CIS and PLN Service
Caroline Musendo
caroline.musendo@sabp.nhs.uk
07765221621