Job summary
37.5 hours per week 24-hour
As part of unplanned mental health services in Doncaster we are able to offer a rare opportunity for motivated professionals to join Doncaster Crisis Team.
The role will involve the triage assessment and intervention of service users in crisis and will involve telephone, home visits and assessments in A&E.
We are seeking to recruit dynamic and positive practitioners to support in this new service.
We are looking to recruit a permanent Band 6 qualified practitioner who is enthusiastic and highly motivated to join our busy team and who has a passion and desire to work with individuals in crisis within the community delivering a caring and safe service.
Previous applicants need not apply
Main duties of the job
We are looking for passionate, reliable and progressive staff who work within a strengths and recovery based approach.
Liaison with families and supporting their understanding of crisis management is an important part of the role.
The post will require individuals to work alongside partner organisations, third sector and peer support services, transparency and openness is vital.
This is a great time to begin working in the Crisis Service as we are starting to embark in change around the community working age model and you will have the opportunity to contribute and lead in some of these changes.
About us
Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust (RDaSH) employ around 3700 talented colleagues who are very much appreciated, valued, and respected.
We have a wide portfolio which includes mental health, physical health, learning disability and drug and alcohol services.
We are passionate about enhancing the quality of our service and we work hard to attract and select the right colleagues for our organisation. Our goal is to employ those who share our passion for providing first class care while remaining committed to our vision and values. Please view our Strategy using the link below:
https://www.rdash.nhs.uk/documents/clinical-and-organisational-strategy-2023-to-2028/
To find out more about working for RDaSH and the fantastic benefits we offer visit our website:
https://workwithrdash.co.uk/
We are committed to inclusive cultures and really value people in our organisation, view our Allyship video on YouTube to find out more:
https://youtu.be/WMJSkLoTk4Q
The main terms and conditions of service can be found here:
https://www.nhsemployers.org/publications/tchandbook
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please view the attached job description and person specification to view the full details about the role
We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if there are a high amount of applications
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please view the attached job description and person specification to view the full details about the role
We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if there are a high amount of applications
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Mental Health Nurse
- Current professional registration
- Evidence of continued professional development
- Risk assessment and management training
- Safeguarding Level 3
- Menorship qualification
Desirable
- Therapies skills training/ qualification
- Psychosocial interventions
- Suicide prevention training
- STORM
- Supervision training
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience of working in Mental health settings
- Demonstrable experience of case managing people presenting in mental health crisis
- Substantial experience of leading in risk assessment and risk management planning
- Co-producing care plans and crisis plans alongside client and families
- Multi-agency working
- Experience of working across service boundaries with local authorities, voluntary sector and peer support services
- Involving service users and carers in care delivery
Desirable
- Experience of working within a crisis service
- Experience of acute inpatient experience
- Working with service users and carers in service improvement
- Values based recruitment
Knowledge
Essential
- Excellent knowledge of mental illness, signs and symptoms
- Excellent mental health assessment and risk assessment skills
- Excellent Knowledge of a range of evidencebased treatments and therapies relevant to service
- Excellent knowledge around harm minimisation
- Understanding of self-harming behaviours and the management of this
- Experience of working with trauma and a high degree of knowledge
- Models of care relevant to working with people in mental health crisis
- A sound knowledge of the Mental Health Act A sound knowledge of the Mental Capacity Act
- Knowledge of the current policy and guidance in relation to the development of Mental Health Services
- Excellent knowledge of community resources both statutory and non- statutory
- Detailed understanding of the principles of recovery
Desirable
- Evidence of continuing professional development Family education training
- Care Act
- Self-harming intervention
- Mood masters
- Experience of working within Trauma informed services
Skills/Abilities
Essential
- Assessing, formulating and working with people presenting in heightened state of distress
- Clinical risk assessment and contingency planning
- Excellent defensible record keeping
- Brief psychological interventions/strategies for managing crisis
- Self-harm / harm minimisation skills
- Ability to manage high expressed emotions and severely challenging behaviours
- Ability to provide appropriate education and training to qualified and unqualified staff as appropriate
- Communicating (oral and written) complex/highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- Ability to understand the importance of relatives and partners involvement in care and risk assessment and management planning
- Ability to undertake a full range of physical interventions e.g. moving and handling and reducing restrictive interventions
- Ability to demonstrate effective time management and disciplined self-organisation Ability to value diversity and respond constructively to discriminatory behaviour
- Ability to deal with verbal aggression
- To have excellent engagement abilities
- To poses an interest in individuals and a passion for delivering high quality services
- To work as part of an MDT
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Mental Health Nurse
- Current professional registration
- Evidence of continued professional development
- Risk assessment and management training
- Safeguarding Level 3
- Menorship qualification
Desirable
- Therapies skills training/ qualification
- Psychosocial interventions
- Suicide prevention training
- STORM
- Supervision training
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience of working in Mental health settings
- Demonstrable experience of case managing people presenting in mental health crisis
- Substantial experience of leading in risk assessment and risk management planning
- Co-producing care plans and crisis plans alongside client and families
- Multi-agency working
- Experience of working across service boundaries with local authorities, voluntary sector and peer support services
- Involving service users and carers in care delivery
Desirable
- Experience of working within a crisis service
- Experience of acute inpatient experience
- Working with service users and carers in service improvement
- Values based recruitment
Knowledge
Essential
- Excellent knowledge of mental illness, signs and symptoms
- Excellent mental health assessment and risk assessment skills
- Excellent Knowledge of a range of evidencebased treatments and therapies relevant to service
- Excellent knowledge around harm minimisation
- Understanding of self-harming behaviours and the management of this
- Experience of working with trauma and a high degree of knowledge
- Models of care relevant to working with people in mental health crisis
- A sound knowledge of the Mental Health Act A sound knowledge of the Mental Capacity Act
- Knowledge of the current policy and guidance in relation to the development of Mental Health Services
- Excellent knowledge of community resources both statutory and non- statutory
- Detailed understanding of the principles of recovery
Desirable
- Evidence of continuing professional development Family education training
- Care Act
- Self-harming intervention
- Mood masters
- Experience of working within Trauma informed services
Skills/Abilities
Essential
- Assessing, formulating and working with people presenting in heightened state of distress
- Clinical risk assessment and contingency planning
- Excellent defensible record keeping
- Brief psychological interventions/strategies for managing crisis
- Self-harm / harm minimisation skills
- Ability to manage high expressed emotions and severely challenging behaviours
- Ability to provide appropriate education and training to qualified and unqualified staff as appropriate
- Communicating (oral and written) complex/highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- Ability to understand the importance of relatives and partners involvement in care and risk assessment and management planning
- Ability to undertake a full range of physical interventions e.g. moving and handling and reducing restrictive interventions
- Ability to demonstrate effective time management and disciplined self-organisation Ability to value diversity and respond constructively to discriminatory behaviour
- Ability to deal with verbal aggression
- To have excellent engagement abilities
- To poses an interest in individuals and a passion for delivering high quality services
- To work as part of an MDT
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
