Senior CRISS Practitioner

Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 37,000 - 45,000; Part time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking organization dedicated to improving mental health services in Leeds. As a Band 6 practitioner in the Crisis Resolution Intensive Support Service, you will play a vital role in providing 24/7 crisis assessments and home-based treatment for adults in need. This position offers a unique opportunity to work within a multi-disciplinary team, where your skills in crisis assessment and treatment will be invaluable. The organization values diversity and lived experience, making it a welcoming place for all. With a commitment to staff development and well-being, this role is perfect for those looking to make a real difference in the community.

Benefits

27 - 33 days annual leave

Flexible working arrangements

NHS Pension Scheme

Career development opportunities

Exclusive discounts and payment schemes

Qualifications

• Applicants must hold a full driver's license and have access to a vehicle.
• Experience in formulating crisis plans for acute mental health crises is essential.

Responsibilities

• Conduct crisis assessments and implement home-based treatment interventions.
• Provide leadership and clinical supervision to junior staff.

Skills

Crisis assessment

Home-based treatment

Assessment and problem-solving

Communication

Teamwork

Driving

Education

Mental Health Nurse

Social Worker

Occupational Therapist

Tools

Electronic care records

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: West Crisis Resolution Intensive Support Service
Grade: 6
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Part time - 22.5 hours per week
Job ref: 173-55824-ACUTE-B

Site: West CRISS
Town: Leeds
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum, pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 30/12/2024 23:59

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Job overview

The Crisis Resolution Intensive Support Service (CRISS) is a dynamic and flexible service which offers 24/7 crisis assessments and home-based treatment for working age adults across the city. The service is currently under a period of development to bring together both sides of the service in localities across the city and in line with Core Fidelity standards. We’re looking for skilled senior practitioners who can help shape the service going forward.

We’re looking to recruit permanent Band 6 qualified practitioners to join our West CRISS service.

The successful Occupational Therapists/Mental Health Nurse or Social Worker will work at West CRISS undertaking crisis assessments and home-based treatment.

It is essential that applicants hold a full driver’s license and have access to a vehicle for work purposes and are able to undertake night shifts.

Main duties of the job

1. To work closely with the Clinical Team Manager (CTM) in overseeing efficiency and effectiveness of treatment given and support the CTM in carrying out his/her duties.
2. 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.
3. To work as an integrated member of the clinical team, participating in all aspects of day-to-day service provision.
4. Band 6 practitioners work with a shared caseload of service users and as part of a multi-disciplinary team, providing same day/urgent assessment, care planning and care delivery. This will include the provision of highly skilled nursing/AHP care, psychological interventions, clinical assessment, risk assessments/risk management, and promoting recovery and inclusion.

Working for our organisation

The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country. As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development.

There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 - 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme, coaching, support and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more NHS Discount Offers.

We also have an incredible bank department, offering a variety of roles in nursing, allied health professions, healthcare support worker and administration clerical. Permanent employees are automatically added to bank.

Applicants should be aware that for any individual who requires a visa to work in the UK, the Trust provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles only. This is an essential requirement of the role, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you are unable to meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As a band 6 practitioner you will operate within a community setting and will be required to work within a MDT led team which aims to reduce admissions to hospital and facilitate early discharge through home based treatment. The role involves undertaking crisis assessments and implementing home-based treatment interventions. 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.

This role offers the successful candidate the opportunity to develop and provide leadership to the wider team whilst working clinically. You will actively participate and provide management and clinical supervision to other members of the team. You will be supported in your professional development to reach your potential in this exciting role.

Band 6 practitioners also provide leadership, management, and supervision/appraisal for junior staff (and sometimes other members of a multi-disciplinary team) and often lead/coordinate/supervise teams of staff in the delivery and evaluation of care.

1. In some roles specialist skills and knowledge may be required. Band 6 practitioners will often have designated areas of practice to lead within the team.
2. Band 6 practitioners will be required to regularly take charge of a team and to delegate and supervise the work of other staff.
3. Practitioners are expected to consistently demonstrate the ‘Six C’s’ – namely care, compassion, competence, communication, courage and commitment.
4. Practitioners will be expected to work shifts over a 24/7 pattern.

Communicates in an effective manner with all service users and carers, ensuring use of additional services where required, e.g translation services, communication aids, visual aids.

1. To provide advice, support and information to service users, other professionals and carers.
2. Promotes effective team working to provide high quality care through effective communication and liaison.
3. Ensure effective communication with the team and more senior team members during the planning, implementation and evaluations of care.
4. Liaise with other agencies, providers, service users/carers during the planning, implementation and evaluation of care as appropriate to the role. To establish and maintain close and effective relationships with inpatient and CMHT colleagues.
5. Maintains effective communication and liaison systems which ensures the accurate and timely distribution and receipt of information (on a shift by shift basis) and is able to delegate responsibilities and duties where necessary.
6. Manages and makes judgements regarding clinical work on a day to day basis, and is able to effectively coordinate a shift as appropriate.
7. Is aware of the limitations of their own role and utilises senior support and advice systems (including 24hr management advice structure) as required. May provide clinical supervision to colleagues if approached.
8. Attend local team and clinical meetings as required. Attend care group meetings as required and provide feedback as appropriate.
9. Participate in managerial supervision and participate in appraisals with an identified supervisor.
10. To provide clinical and managerial supervision, appraisal and other staff developmental work for junior staff and to act as named line manager for staff as required.
11. To adhere to all professional and Trust policies including the reporting of Trust incidents, complaints procedure and information governance.
12. In the role of senior clinician to assist and support staff from other areas with verbal and non-verbal complaints in a timely and effective manner, communicating outcomes to relevant parties, including mediating between the relevant parties.
13. Adhere to the Lone Working policy as appropriate.
14. Actively promote and support a client centred approach to care, founded in a philosophy of service user involvement.
15. Develop and follow integrated Care Plans and document Safety Plan with individual clients and their family and carers, ensuring that the service user, and where appropriate carer, has an up to date copy of their plans.
16. Post holder will be involved in the risk assessment of individuals (in conjunction with other members of the team, service users and their carers). They will ensure appropriate plans of action are in place to manage identified risks.
17. Will maintain and produce detailed contemporaneous and accurate records and reports, in accordance with agreed procedures. Will possess IT literacy skills and have the ability to work with electronic care records.
18. To use professional judgement and exercise professional accountability in all aspects of clinical practice.
19. The post holder will abide by their professional Codes of Practice and work in accordance with Trust policy and procedures.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist.

Experience

• Post Registration experience of working with adults of all ages with acute mental health problems.
• Can demonstrate experience of formulating crisis plans/care plans for people in an acute mental health crisis.

Skills

• Assessment and problems solving skills particularly in the area of crisis assessment and treatment.
• Ability to consult, liaise and negotiate with service users, carers/family members, other professionals and the wider community.
• Is able to drive and has access to a car.
• Can undertake 24/7 shift pattern.

Knowledge

• Has the applicant displayed or described a way in which they meet 1 of the 3 Trust values? Caring, Simple, Integrity?
• Has the applicant evidenced lived experience, caring or volunteering experience within the supporting statement?

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.

Where candidates are successful at interview, flexible working arrangement requests will be taken into consideration and may be accommodated where the needs of the service allow.

Please note that from 1 st 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.