RISE Practitioner - Band 5

Job summary

RISE Think Family Outreach Team (TFOT) are part of an exciting pilot project to develop an enhanced day provision for children, young people and their families within the crisis pathway.

Expanding on the rise crisis pathway there are several practitioner roles available. The post holder will work as part of TFOT to support children, young people (CYP) and their families who are in emotional distress and either at risk of requiring crisis intervention or admission to a hospital setting. The clinical offer is tailored to suit each young person/family's needs and will focus on empowerment and skills.

You will provide clinical assistance and work as part of wider a team in the delivery of a range of psychoeducation interventions to support the crisis management and recovery within the day provision and community settings within rise across CWPT

We are looking for enthusiastic and motivated registered professionals to join our friendly multi-agency team and help us on our journey to offering outstanding care for CYP within Coventry and Warwickshire.

We offer our team a generous package of support, such as regular supervision, training/shadowing opportunities and wellbeing support, and believe in a good work-life balance, offering flexible working agreements.

If you would like to know more about this role or to come and meet the team, please get in touch for an informal chat or visit.

Main duties of the job

Your working day within the team will be dependent on the CYP's needs. You will be providing risk reviews, short-term intervention, psychoeducation and referrals onto other services. You will provide mental health care to CYP and their families in line with local and national guidelines. The care you will provide will be in a range of settings such as the RISE clinics, the rise day provision, Acute hospital wards, young people's homes or educational setting.

This post is an integral function of providing telephone support and advice to CYP up to 18 years' old and their families/Carers calling 111 option two/Crisis line seeking urgent help for their mental health. You will provide information, support, signposting and advice about managing mental health. You will escalate any callers or concerns to senior clinicians.

They will provide compassionate and professional support to callers (including) carers and will support and assist CYP, families, and Carers to cope more effectively with their mental health.

You will assist callers in managing their distress and difficulties and identify immediate and non-immediate responses to 111/crisis line triage assessments.

Our team operates between the hours of 8am - 8pm Monday-Sunday where you will work staggered shift patterns which can be discussed within your interview.

The team consists of team lead, clinical and clinical band 5, 6 's and support workers.

For more information on this role please see attached documentation.

About us

We are a part of an exciting expansion of Rise specialist services and the transformation of local service provisions for CYP in Crisis across Coventry and Warwickshire.

We put 'people at our heart'; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.

These include:

• generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
• flexible working opportunities
• excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
• salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle.
• wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
• staff networks and support group

We're always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.