CRISS Practitioner

Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Leeds; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in mental health services is seeking dedicated practitioners to join their Crisis Resolution Intensive Support Service. This role is pivotal in providing urgent care and assessments to adults facing acute mental health challenges. As part of a multi-disciplinary team, you will deliver high-quality interventions, ensuring that service users receive the support they need within their community. The organization is committed to professional development and offers a collaborative environment where your contributions can make a significant impact. If you are passionate about mental health and eager to help others, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• Must have a recognized professional qualification.
• Experience in crisis assessment and treatment is essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide urgent assessments and care planning for service users.
• Work within a multi-disciplinary team to support recovery.

Skills

Crisis Assessment

Psychological Interventions

Risk Management

Communication Skills

Team Collaboration

Education

Recognized Professional Qualification

Tools

Care Plans

Crisis Plans

Job description

Are you looking for mental health jobs in Leeds, York or with one of our regional services operating across the country? We have a range of NHS Job opportunities, placements and specialities in our clinical, research, and professional support teams across Leeds and York.

At Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT), we strive to provide high-quality mental health and learning disability services as an employer of choice. We can only achieve this by putting our staff and the people using our services at the centre of everything we do. This starts with the people we employ. We recruit based on values and qualifications (where required) and believe lived experience is an advantage. We look for potential, not perfection, and this means that together, we are as diverse as the communities we care for.

Simply put, we seek out people who care, act with integrity and have the right skills. We want to add to our incredible colleagues, students and volunteers who share these principles, with people like you, who find empathy comes easily and who treat everyone with respect without thinking. Search our latest jobs to start your journey with us.

Main area: Crisis Resolution Intensive Support Service
Grade: Band 5
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 173-68724-ACUTE

Site: St Mary’s House
Town: Leeds
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 Per Annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 19/01/2025 23:59

Job overview

The Crisis resolution and Intensive Support Service is a dynamic and flexible service which offers a true alternative to inpatient admission over 24 hours meeting the acute needs of working age adults across the city. We are seeking to recruit dynamic and positive practitioners to support in the service.

We’re looking to recruit permanent band 5 qualified practitioners to join the Crisis Resolution Intensive Support Service. You will have a permanent base in one area but will be expected to work citywide across the bases dependent on clinical needs. This permanent base is subject to change depending on skill mix and clinical capacity.

The successful Occupational Therapists/Mental health nurse or social worker will work with a range of service users as part of a multi-disciplinary team, providing triage, assessment and interventions to support recovery and inclusion. This will include the provision of highly skilled assessments, psychological interventions, safety planning, and contributing to formulations.

Main duties of the job

• Band 5 practitioners work with a shared caseload of service users and usually as part of a multi-disciplinary team, providing same day/urgent assessment, care planning, care delivery, and conducting telephone triages under the supervision of a more senior nurse.
• This will include the provision of highly skilled nursing/AHP care, psychological interventions, clinical assessment, risk assessments / risk management, and promoting recovery and inclusion.
• The band 5 practitioner will operate within a community setting and may require to lone work, however can utilize the team to manage risks where support is needed.
• When working in the crisis resolution you will complete assessments alongside a band 6 practitioner for decision making purposes and assess risk for those potentially unknown to services.
• You will also work closely with inpatient and community services, providing an excellent alternative to inpatient admission and supporting in transitions points for services users to community services.
• In this role you will be under the supervision of Band 6 and Band 7 practitioners and can gain support from the wider team also.
• You will have regular clinical and management supervision and will be supported in your professional development to reach your potential in this exciting role.

Working for our organisation

We are a high quality, high performing NHS foundation trust. We are the main provider of specialist mental health and learning disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York as well as some highly specialised services across the country. We employ around 3,000 staff and every year we have contact with over 25,000 service users. Our vision is to provide outstanding mental health and learning disability services as an employer of choice. Our ambition is to support our service users and carers, our staff and the communities we serve to live healthy and fulfilling lives. We need people like you to help us achieve our goals; to live our lives free from stigma and discrimination; and to improve the lives of people with a learning disability and mental ill health.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To present as a positive and professional role model to all staff within the team, striving to maintain a philosophy of service user involvement in continuously improving the service.
• To work as an integrated member of the clinical team, participating in all aspects of day to day service provision.
• In some roles specialist skills and knowledge may be needed.
• Practitioners are expected to consistently demonstrate the ‘Six C’s’ – namely care, compassion, competence, communication, courage and commitment.
• Car driver is essential.
• Provides care and treatment across 24hr 7 days a week, postholder may therefore be required to work shifts across 7 days which may include some long days and nights.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Have a recognised professional qualification.

Experience

• Post Registration experience of working with adults of all ages with acute mental health problems.
• Assessment and problems solving skills particularly in the area of crisis assessment and treatment.
• Can demonstrate experience of formulating crisis plans/care plans for people in an acute mental health crisis.
• Ability to consult, liaise and negotiate with service users, carers/family members, other professionals and the wider community.

Please note that the Trust reserves the right to close the vacancy before the closing date if a sufficient number of applications are received. It is in the candidates best interest to apply as soon as possible.