Crisis Clinician: Sponsorship Available

Job summary

We are looking for a caring, compassionate, energetic and motivated individual who is passionate about improving the mental health of our service users. This is a band 6 post open to Mental Health Nurses, and Allied Health professionals who are currently registered with the NMC, HCPC or SWE.

This is a pivotal role with the acute services pathway as our team is focused on providing evidenced based interventions with the aim to prevent and reduce difficulties experienced by service users and carers during mental health crisis.

The team operates over a 24/7 period providing an All-Age Crisis telephone service, Crisis Assessment Service, Health Based Place of Safety and Intensive Home Treatment pathway.

The service can be fast paced, and the ideal applicant will be extremely organised and self-motivated to provide high-quality assessment, triage and formulation for service users accessing our service.

The post holder will be responsible for the clinical leadership of more junior members of the team, prioritising workload and utilising resources appropriately to ensure that service user needs are met.

You will be well supported, with continuing opportunities for your on-going professional development.

Main duties of the job

You will be offered a staff induction period, during which you will be supernumerary whilst existing team members support you to share your existing knowledge and skills with the team whilst providing you the opportunity to learn and develop new skills from others.

The successful candidate will provide rapid assessment and brief evidence based clinical interventions and have responsibility for the development, planning and implementation of brief care and treatment interventions for individual patients within the Intensive Home Based Treatment Pathway.

You will ensure that individual episodes of care are delivered in a timely, effective and integrated manner and promote a recovery model that empowers patients, carers and relatives to be at the forefront of decision making and ownership of their packages of care and treatment.

The post holder is expected to undertake clinical risk assessments, based on latest empirical evidence and compliant with local policies and procedures. Additionally, you will act as the patients and relatives advocate, enable patients and carers to manage disability, loss and change and champion patients’ rights, including dignity, equality, diversity, choice and respect.

When undertaking all of the above ensure good documentation is provided and entered within the appropriate systems of record sharing.

Person Specification

Qualification

Essential

• Current professional registration with an approved professional body.
• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development.
• 18 months post qualifying experience including sign off of appropriate preceptorship or competency framework (at the point of application)
• Clinical Supervisor
• Recognised sign-off mentor, clinical educator or equivalent. Must be achieved within agreed timescale
• Key skills in literacy, numeracy and ITQ level 2 (or equivalent)

Desirable

• Leadership or management qualification.
• Post-graduate qualification in a relevant area.

Skills

Essential

• Provide leadership, monitor, co-ordinate and prioritise the activities of a team.
• Communicate complex and sensitive information effectively to patients, carers/families and all members of the multidisciplinary team.
• Work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team and undertake lead professional responsibilities.
• Provide effective clinical supervision, teaching, training and assessing in clinical practice
• Write reports
• Use multimedia materials for presentations in professional settings
• Use approved breakaway techniques

Experience

Essential

• Significant experience working with people with mental ill health in a community setting
• Working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers
• Providing clinical supervision to individuals or groups as professionally appropriate.
• Mentoring or facilitating students on practice placement.
• Working in a multi-disciplinary team
• Quality improvement activities

Desirable

• Leadership or management experience

Closing Date: 8 November 2026