Crisis Practitioner

Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust; Doncaster; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

RDaSH is recruiting a Band 6 practitioner to join the Doncaster Crisis Team. The role involves triage, assessment and intervention for service users in crisis, including telephone support, home visits and A&E assessments.

The post requires activity across multi-agency settings with partner organisations and a commitment to a strengths- and recovery-based approach delivered within a community crisis service.

Qualifications

• Registered Mental Health Nurse and current professional registration.

Responsibilities

• Liaise with families and support crisis management.

Skills

Crisis assessment

Risk assessment

Psychological interventions

Emotions management

Staff training

MDT collaboration

Communication

Trauma-informed care

Education

Registered Mental Health Nurse

Current professional registration

Evidence of CPD

Risk assessment training

Therapies skills training

Psychosocial interventions

Suicide prevention training

STORM

Supervision training

Job description

Employer Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Onyx Centre Town Doncaster Salary £39,959 - £48,117 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 18/10/2026 23:59

NHS AfC: Band 6

Job overview

37.5 hours per week 24-hour

As part of unplanned mental health services in Doncaster we are able to offer a rare opportunity for motivated professionals to join Doncaster Crisis Team.

The role will involve the triage assessment and intervention of service users in crisis and will involve telephone, home visits and assessments in A&E.

We are seeking to recruit dynamic and positive practitioners to support in this new service.

We are looking to recruit a permanent Band 6 qualified practitioner who is enthusiastic and highly motivated to join our busy team and who has a passion and desire to work with individuals in crisis within the community delivering a caring and safe service.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for passionate, reliable and progressive staff who work within a strengths and recovery based approach.

Liaison with families and supporting their understanding of crisis management is an important part of the role.

The post will require individuals to work alongside partner organisations, third sector and peer support services, transparency and openness is vital.

This is a great time to begin working in the Crisis Service as we are starting to embark in change around the community working age model and you will have the opportunity to contribute and lead in some of these changes.

Working for our organisation

Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust (RDaSH) employ around 4000 talented colleagues who are very much appreciated, valued, and respected.

We have a wide portfolio which includes mental health, physical health, learning disability and drug and alcohol services.

We are passionate about enhancing the quality of our service and we work hard to attract and select the right colleagues for our organisation. Our goal is to employ those who share our passion for providing first class care while remaining committed to our vision and values. Please view our Strategy using the link below:

To find out more about working for RDaSH and the fantastic benefits we offer visit our website:

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please view the attached job description and person specification to view the full details about the role

We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if there are a high amount of applications

Person specification

Qualifications

• Registered Mental Health Nurse
• Current professional registration
• Evidence of continued professional development
• Risk assessment and management training
• Therapies skills training/ qualification
• Psychosocial interventions
• Suicide prevention training
• STORM
• Supervision training

Experience

• Extensive experience of working in Mental health settings
• Demonstrable experience of case managing people presenting in mental health crisis
• Substantial experience of leading in risk assessment and risk management planning
• Co-producing care plans and crisis plans alongside client and families
• Multi-agency working
• Experience of working across service boundaries with local authorities, voluntary sector and peer support services
• Involving service users and carers in care delivery
• Experience of working within a crisis service
• Experience of acute inpatient experience
• Working with service users and carers in service improvement
• Values based recruitment

Knowledge

• Excellent knowledge of mental illness, signs and symptoms
• Excellent mental health assessment and risk assessment skills
• Excellent Knowledge of a range of evidence based treatments and therapies relevant to service
• Excellent knowledge around harm minimisation
• Understanding of self-harming behaviours and the management of this
• Experience of working with trauma and a high degree of knowledge
• Models of care relevant to working with people in mental health crisis
• A sound knowledge of the Mental Health Act
• A sound knowledge of the Mental Capacity Act
• Knowledge of the current policy and guidance in relation to the development of Mental Health Services
• Excellent knowledge of community resources both statutory and non- statutory
• Detailed understanding of the principles of recovery
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Family education training
• Care Act
• Self-harming intervention
• Mood masters
• Experience of working within Trauma informed services

Skills

• Assessing, formulating and working with people presenting in heightened state of distress
• Clinical risk assessment and contingency planning
• Brief psychological interventions/strategies for managing crisis
• Ability to manage high expressed emotions and severely challenging behaviours
• Ability to provide appropriate education and training to qualified and unqualified staff as appropriate
• Communicating (oral and written) complex/highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
• Ability to understand the importance of relatives and partners involvement in care and risk assessment and management planning
• Ability to undertake a full range of physical interventions e.g. moving and handling and reducing restrictive interventions
• Ability to demonstrate effective time management and disciplined self-organisation
• Ability to value diversity and respond constructively to discriminatory behaviour
• Ability to deal with verbal aggression
• To have excellent engagement abilities
• To poses an interest in individuals and a passion for delivering high quality services
• To work as part of an MDT
• Mood masters

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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.

Application numbers

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive a high number of applications.