Crisis Team Clinical Specialist

Band 6 - Crisis Team Clinical Specialist

We have a number of exciting opportunities available in our Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team in the vibrant and diverse inner London borough of Islington.

Our Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team and integrated Crisis Single Point of Access provides a vital service to those experiencing mental ill health. The team provides intensive support to adults experiencing a mental health crisis within their own communities as an alternative to hospital admission. We operate 24 hours a day, 365 days per year.

If you are a nurse or OT and have experience working in an acute or community mental health setting and are looking for that exciting next move in your career, do drop us a line to find out more.

If you are newly qualified and think you may be up for the challenge of starting your career as a crisis team clinical practitioner, then we would love to hear from you too! We would also welcome applicants who want to work part-time hours and can consider secondment opportunities.

Main duties of the job

By working in a multidisciplinary CRHTT, you will develop strong leadership and dynamic risk assessment & clinical management skills. You will contribute to the effective management of service users across a shared caseload and formulate appropriate specific, highly specialist care and treatment plans; providing highly skilled and specialist interventions and care to service users with acute mental health problems.

You will provide direct care to service users with acute mental health problems in their homes and community settings and ensure that safe, evidence-based, effective, culturally competent care is delivered in a timely manner to service users.

You will have the opportunity to contribute to governance and audit within the team, ensuring that team members are supported and developed to their potential and that new team members are comprehensively inducted and successfully integrated into the team. You will regularly take a lead in organizing the shift for the team and provide clinical supervision and support to junior staff.

About us

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

Our Five-Year Strategy:

1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough, we will ensure equity of outcome for all.
3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with a supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
4. We will be more effective as an organization by pioneering research, quality improvement, and technology.

Why NLFT?

We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.

We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.

NHS Discounts, generous annual leave, and NHS pension scheme.

Excellent internal staff network.

The post holder will be aligned with our Values:

• We Are Kind
• We Are Respectful
• We Work Together
• We Keep Things Simple
• We Empower
• We Are Proudly Diverse

In order to meet the needs of the Trust, you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that falls under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey, or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

Job responsibilities

You will have the opportunity to work across the different aspects of the CRHTT service which includes:

Crisis Hub

A 24/7 telephone service offering support, advice, and signposting for people in crisis, as well as triaging referrals and booking in face-to-face CRHTT assessments.

Assessments

Undertaking holistic assessments of people in crisis and deciding on collaborative treatment plans as an alternative to acute inpatient care or signposting to appropriate other community or third sector services.

Home Treatment Team

Working as part of a supportive multidisciplinary team to deliver high-quality person-centred care. You will be using and offered training around the use of CBT/DBT, de-escalation techniques, managing risks, and brief supportive counselling skills to work towards shared treatment goals with the service user within their social system.

Person Specification

Education & Qualification

• Evidence of Continued Professional Development e.g., mentorship training.

Experience

• Experience of acute mental health service user care.
• Evidence of managing/supervising others.
• Experience working in a crisis resolution and home treatment team.

Skills

• Excellent verbal and written skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• ICT literate.
• Ability to work as a team and work autonomously, maintaining boundaries.

Knowledge

• Knowledge of causes of mental illness, mental health law, assessment tools, risk assessment, understanding of own role, needs and difficulties of people with complex mental health needs and/or substance misuse. Awareness of research.
• Knowledge of care planning, group work, equal opportunity, and diversity.

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.

£44,806 to £53,134 a year per annum inclusive of HCAS.