Crisis Team Clinician - RMN, OT or Social Worker

The Methodist Church in Britain; High Wycombe; Sur place; GBP 32 000 - 52 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

27 days annual leave + bank holidays

Lease car scheme

Cycle to work scheme

NHS discount

Employee Assistance Programme

Learning and development

Staff accommodation

Résumé du poste

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust is seeking clinicians for the Crisis Response and Home Treatment Team in Buckinghamshire. You will build individual care packages, deliver home treatment, and run clinics at Saffron House, with shifts across early, late and long days.

Travel across the county is required. Registered professionals in nursing, OT or social work are sought, with a degree and a teaching qualification or progression toward one.

Qualifications

• Registered professional educated to degree level or equivalent.
• Teaching qualification or working towards one.
• Current registration as a nurse, occupational therapist or social worker.
• Experience implementing evidence-based practice.
• Ability to signpost service users to treatment pathways.

Responsabilités

• Develop individualised care packages with service users and families.
• Deliver home treatment interventions to people in crisis.
• Deliver online acute treatment programme and clinics at Saffron House.
• Carry out mental health assessments and signpost to effective treatment pathways.
• Manage risk in the least restrictive way while working independently.
• Take crisis referrals from GPs, ED, police and other access points.

Connaissances

Team working

Work under pressure

Negotiation skills

Use initiative

Clinical judgment

Formation

Degree-level professional education

Teaching qualification or in training

Outils

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Office

Description du poste

This role sits in the Crisis Response and Home Treatment Team in Buckinghamshire, part of Oxford Health's urgent care pathway. Clinicians work with people in crisis and their families at home, building individual care packages and delivering home treatment and clinics at Saffron House. It is open to mental health nurses, occupational therapists and social workers, working early, late and long day shifts across seven days, mainly from Saffron House. A full driving licence and access to a vehicle are needed.

What the job involves

• Develop individualised care packages with service users and their families
• Deliver home treatment interventions to people in crisis
• Deliver the online acute treatment programme and clinics at Saffron House
• Carry out mental health assessments and signpost people to effective treatment pathways
• Manage risk in the least restrictive way while working independently
• Take crisis referrals from GPs, emergency departments, police and other access points in the Urgent Care Pathway
• Work with psychiatrists, psychologists and other clinicians as a team
• Cover a duty rota of early, late and long day shifts across seven days a week
• Travel across the county as required

What’s required

Qualifications

• Registered professional educated to degree level or equivalent
• Teaching qualification or working towards one

Registration & licences

• Current registration as a nurse, occupational therapist or social worker

Experience

• Implementing evidence-based practice
• Working independently and setting own priorities in line with team vision
• Proven ability to signpost service users to treatment pathways

Skills & knowledge

• Understanding of team working models
• Coping under pressure and problem-solving across complex situations and competing priorities
• Negotiation skills and use of initiative
• Working knowledge of physical health management strategies and interventions
• High-level clinical knowledge, including recent national, regional and local health strategies
• Communicating with empathy at various levels

Checks & eligibility

• Full valid driving licence
• Access to a vehicle for work

Other

• Reflecting critically on own performance and contributing to team and service training needs
• Knowledge of IT programmes, including Microsoft Excel and Office

Nice to have

• Prescribing qualification
• Phlebotomy qualification
• Health promotion qualification, including smoking cessation
• Brief PSI qualification
• Experience of being part of a service improvement project
• Ability to analyse professional and ethical issues

What’s offered

• 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
• Competitive pension scheme
• Lease car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• NHS discount across a range of shops, restaurants and retailers
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Tailored individual and Trust-wide learning and development
• Staff accommodation (waiting lists may apply)