Crisis Team Clinical Lead

Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHSFT; Doncaster; On-site; GBP 49,000 - 57,000; Full time

Job summary

Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Crisis Team Clinical Lead to provide senior clinical leadership in Urgent Care Services. The post oversees the crisis team across a 7-day week, delivering supervision, training, and complex case management to ensure safe discharge planning and high-quality care.

You will work with multi-professional teams, carers and partner agencies, contributing to safeguarding, governance and service improvement within the Urgent Care

Qualifications

• RNMH registration with the NMC is essential.
• Postgraduate diploma or equivalent specialist training required.
• ENB 998 mentor qualification or equivalent.
• Prescribing qualification or willingness to undertake.
• Clinical leadership and supervision training desirable.
• Experience in QSIR and clinical governance advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior clinical leadership across the Crisis Team 7 days a week.
• Deliver clinical supervision and training to team members.
• Coordinate clinical pathways and interagency collaboration.
• Develop and monitor risk assessments and care plans.
• Lead complex case management and maintain safeguarding practices.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Risk assessment

MDT collaboration

Communication

Mentoring

Problem solving

Education

NMC RNMH registration

Postgraduate diploma/specialist training

ENB 998 mentor qualification

Non-medical prescribing qualification

Clinical Leadership Qualification

Clinical Supervision Training

QSIR Training

Job description

Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHSFT

Crisis Team Clinical Lead

The closing date is 22 November 2026

Working as clinical lead in Urgent Care Services Crisis Team.

• Has responsibility for the promotion and assistance in the maintenance of the highest attainable standards of nursing care provided by the teams.
• Provides senior clinical support and advice to the team members ensuring they are visible to all staff to provide clinical leadership.
• Has the lead role of coordinating the team from a clinical perspective across a 7-day week, including clinical supervision, group supervision and MDT reviews.
• Ability to work closely with the team focusing on projects identified by management ensuring improvement of service provision and practice

Main duties of the job

You will ensure that the care delivered is excellent and in keeping with the most up to date guidelines and best practice.

To work with carers/family members as necessary to provide a thorough bio psychosocial assessment of their needs. Carers and significant others will be involved where appropriate in collection of risk information and in the development of a management plan.

To take an advisory and supervisory role in partnership with the clinical team in managing complex cases.

To lead and present complex, sensitive, and challenging clinical and professional communication processes that may impact on service users, carers, staff, the team, the organisation, partner agencies and members of the public, where there are barriers to understanding.

Safeguarding the health and wellbeing of children and vulnerable adults, by being familiar with and adhering to Trust safeguarding policies and participating in relevant training.

To utilise problem solving and decision-making skills to support safe discharge planning.

To ensure effective partnership working and pathways between the crisis team and key services both internal and external.

Working as part of the Urgent Care leadership team with willingness to provide clinical leadership across the Crisis Team- including the associated urgent care teams (Home Treatment/Mental Health Hospital Liaison Team) when required.

Deliver clinical supervision, training and clinical development to team members.

About us

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 dedicated to the development of our our people and hold a learning half day every month for our colleagues.

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:

https://workwithrdash.co.uk/

We are committed to inclusive cultures and really value people in our organisation, view our Allyship video on YouTube to find out more:

https://youtu.be/WMJSkLoTk4Q

The main terms and conditions of service can be found here:

https://www.nhsemployers.org/publications/tchandbook

Job 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

Qualifications

• RNMH current professional registration with NMC
• Professional knowledge acquired through a degree supplemented by postgraduate diploma specialist training, experience, short courses or specialist training
• ENB 998 or other NMC approved mentor qualification
• Qualification in non-medical prescribing or willingness to undertake within agreed timescale.
• Clinical Leadership Qualification
• Clinical Supervision Training
• QSIR Training

Experience

• Demonstrable post registration experience at a Band 6 level or above within Community Adult Mental Health Services.
• Experience working with patients with complex needs and high-risk behaviours in the specialist field.
• Experience of MDT working
• Skills in coordinating and planning interagency approaches in mental health care.
• Experience of assessing and managing risk.
• Experience of providing clinical supervision.
• Quality Improvement and developing practice standards.
• Experience of change management
• Experience of working with statutory and nonstatutory agencies
• Experience of working within a range of services
• Experience of delivering evidence-based treatments.
• Experience of clinical leadership and/or operational management at Band 7.

Knowledge

• Ability to use initiative and work without immediate supervision.
• To demonstrate effective leadership skills and act as a positive role model.
• Extensive knowledge of current issues relating to health needs of patients in the field of practice.
• Ability to demonstrate an understanding, empathic approach.
• Ability to work as part of a multi-professional team.
• Excellent assessment skills, including risk assessment, to provide nurse led diagnosis and treatment planning.
• Understanding of the importance of user/carer involvement in care planning.
• Detailed understanding of Safeguarding.
• Good understanding of Clinical Governance
• Good knowledge of the legal framework and statutory obligations under the Mental Health Act.
• Psychological therapy skills eg. CBT/DBT/ACT
• Ability to work in a changing environment
• Knowledge and understanding of the roles of other professionals working within mental health.
• Ability to elaborate on the transition of personal and professional skills into practice.

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.

Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHSFT

£49,387 to £56,515 a yearper annum, pro rata