CRISS Practitioner

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

Job summary

An established NHS foundation trust in Leeds is seeking compassionate and skilled practitioners for its Crisis Resolution Intensive Support Service. This role offers a unique opportunity to work in a dynamic and flexible environment, providing essential support to adults facing acute mental health challenges. The successful candidates will join a multi-disciplinary team, engaging in triage, assessment, and interventions aimed at promoting recovery and inclusion. With a commitment to high-quality care and continuous improvement, this position is perfect for those who value empathy and teamwork in their professional journey. Join a leading organization dedicated to making a real difference in the lives of those in need.

Qualifications

• Post Registration experience with adults facing acute mental health issues.
• Experience in crisis assessment and treatment formulation.

Responsibilities

• Conduct urgent assessments and care planning for service users.
• Provide highly skilled nursing care and promote recovery.

Skills

Crisis assessment

Psychological interventions

Clinical assessment

Risk management

Communication

Empathy

Education

Recognised professional qualification

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

• Work with a shared caseload of service users 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.
• Provide highly skilled nursing/AHP care, psychological interventions, clinical assessment, risk assessments/risk management, and promote recovery and inclusion.
• Complete assessments alongside a band 6 practitioner for decision making purposes and assess risk for those potentially unknown to services.
• Work closely with inpatient and community services, providing an excellent alternative to inpatient admission and supporting transitions points for service users to community services.
• Receive regular clinical and management supervision and support in your professional development.

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.
We perform well against local and national targets and in our most recent CQC inspection, 85% of our services were rated good or outstanding.
As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• 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.
• Work as an integrated member of the clinical team, participating in all aspects of day to day service provision.
• Demonstrate the ‘Six C’s’ – namely care, compassion, competence, communication, courage and commitment.
• Car driver is essential.
• Provide 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.
• 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.

Applications are welcomed from candidates who wish to apply for a position on the basis of a smarter (Hybrid) or flexible working arrangement – please contact the Recruitment Team if you have any queries regarding this in terms of your initial application.

Please note that from 1st July 2018, all new employees are required to subscribe to the DBS Update Service, DBS checks for volunteers remain free of charge.

LYPFT is committed to upholding its statutory responsibilities in relation to safeguarding adults and children. Please refer to job description for further information.

Patient Safety is a priority at LYPFT with a focus on system-based improvement and creating opportunities for learning. We will ensure compassionate engagement with all those involved in an incident and all incidents are met with a proportionate response.

LYPFT is a member of the Disability Confident scheme and is committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process.

As part of the Trust's commitment to its Gold Standard Armed Forces Covenant status, members of the Armed Forces Community are entitled to a guaranteed interview subject to meeting the role criteria.

We welcome applicants with lived experience of providing unpaid care and/or support to a family member or friend with a disability, health condition, frailty, mental health problem, addiction or other health needs.

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.