Assistant Practitioner Crisis Team

455 North London NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

Are you an enthusiastic and passionate individual? Do you enjoy working in a fast paced, ever changing mental health service?

Would you like to enhance your clinical decision-making and assessment skills and confidence in managing numerous crisis presentations both over the telephone and face to face?

***If so this could be the job for you!***

We have a recent and exciting opportunity to appoint Assistant Practitioners in the Islington Crisis Resolution Team and are looking for enthusiastic, committed individuals who enjoy working with acutely unwell service users with a broad range of mental health and social issues.

Covering the central London Borough of Camden & Islington, the team offers an intensive crisis assessment, resolution and home treatment service providing mental health crisis care to our local residents age 18 and upwards. Crisis home treatment promotes social inclusion and also supports the social network in caring for the individual in the least restrictive environment. The Crisis Team acts as an alternative to hospital admission. In order to fulfill this role, the team provides a fully operational 24 hour service, 365 days per year.

Main duties of the job

Successful applicants will be required to have proven and post qualification experience with desirable acute setting experience . You must be willing and committed to working as part of a 24-hour rota to include weekends. As most of our service user contact takes place within their own home, you must also be able to either drive (we utilise Trust vehicles) or to be able to travel independently via public transport. Although we do work as a team, the capacity and confidence to undertake lone working is essential.

In addition to face to face interventions (brief supportive counselling, crisis de-escalation, assessment), you will also possess strong telephone negotiation and support skills and be part of a rotating staff roster which operates Camden and Islington's crisis single point of access line

Here, our staff are able to successfully support the community by offering a clinically led mental health telephone line which triages crisis calls, helping to problem solve at this initial point of contact whilst allowing colleagues on the ground to focus on delivering quality face to face contacts.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills are an expected pre-requisite as is the capacity to utilise all forms of electronic communication. The Trust uses electronic record-keeping throughout all its services and we are working towards becoming a paper-free organisation.

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 supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.

4. We will be more effective as an organisation 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

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 fall 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.

Date posted

24 February 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£31,944 to £34,937 a year per annum inclu of HCAS

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

455-CANDI-1208-A

Job locations

Highgate West Mental Health Centre

Islington Crisis Resolution Team

London

N19 5NX


Job description

Job responsibilities

The Crisis Resolution Teams offer specialised crisis service in-house training for all new staff and there are a lot of training and professional development opportunities within the Trust. These include Quality Improvement and courses in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.

All applications for this post need to be made online with reference to the Person Specification. Please apply at the end of the advert and register with this site as directed. Any application that does not meet the requirements of the Person Specification will not be shortlisted for interview. All short listed applicants will be contacted by email and are advised to check their email accounts regularly. If you have not been contacted within 4 weeks of your application being submitted then it is likely you have not been shortlisted.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The Crisis Resolution Teams offer specialised crisis service in-house training for all new staff and there are a lot of training and professional development opportunities within the Trust. These include Quality Improvement and courses in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.

All applications for this post need to be made online with reference to the Person Specification. Please apply at the end of the advert and register with this site as directed. Any application that does not meet the requirements of the Person Specification will not be shortlisted for interview. All short listed applicants will be contacted by email and are advised to check their email accounts regularly. If you have not been contacted within 4 weeks of your application being submitted then it is likely you have not been shortlisted.

Person Specification

Acute Mental Health Experience

Essential

  • eg. Worked in Ward or Crisis Team

Desirable

  • other Mental Health Experience

Skill

Essential

  • DBT or other similar training / experience

Risk Assessment

Essential

  • Demonstrate good understanding of risk

Knowledge

Essential

  • Good understanding of Mental Health Diagnosis and Mental Health Act

Team Work

Essential

  • Evidence of good Team Work and Lone Working
Person Specification

Acute Mental Health Experience

Essential

  • eg. Worked in Ward or Crisis Team

Desirable

  • other Mental Health Experience

Skill

Essential

  • DBT or other similar training / experience

Risk Assessment

Essential

  • Demonstrate good understanding of risk

Knowledge

Essential

  • Good understanding of Mental Health Diagnosis and Mental Health Act

Team Work

Essential

  • Evidence of good Team Work and Lone Working

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.

Employer details

Employer name

455 North London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Highgate West Mental Health Centre

Islington Crisis Resolution Team

London

N19 5NX


Employer's website

https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


Employer details

Employer name

455 North London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Highgate West Mental Health Centre

Islington Crisis Resolution Team

London

N19 5NX


Employer's website

https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


For questions about the job, contact:

Team Manager

Nonie Fennell-Kelly

nonie.fennell-kelly1@nhs.net

02033176961

Date posted

24 February 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£31,944 to £34,937 a year per annum inclu of HCAS

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

455-CANDI-1208-A

Job locations

Highgate West Mental Health Centre

Islington Crisis Resolution Team

London

N19 5NX


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