Job summary
- Main area
- Crisis Resolution Teams
- Grade
- NHS: AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent & Secondment
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (37.5 hours per week, including shift work and nights)
- Job ref
- 455-CANDI-63-P
- Employer
- Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- HIGHGATE MENTAL HEALTH CENTRE
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £42,471 - £50,364 per annum inclusive of HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Crisis Team Clinical Specialist
NHS: AfC: Band 6
At Camden and Islington NHS foundation trust our staff and service users have worked closely to create a set of values that make sure people who use our services get the best possible chance of a rapid recovery.
We have 3 key priorities which are:
- Early and Effective Intervention
- Helping People to Live Well
- Research and Innovation
The cultural pillars that help us achieve our key priorities are:
- We value each other
- We are empowered
- We keep things simple
- We are connected
By coming to work at Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust you will be joining a Trust with a national reputation for research, where services recognise that research underpins its commitment to providing high quality and innovative clinical care.
As an applicant for this role, you are urged to demonstrate within your supporting statement a combination of evidence that reflects your competence to meet the job specification and provide examples of how C&I values are an integral part of the way you have and will continue to deliver service.
Job overview
Band 6 - Crisis Team Clinical Specialist
We have a number of exciting opportunities available across our Crisis Resolution Teams in the vibrant and diverse inner London boroughs of Camden and Islington.
We would also welcome applicants who want to work part time hours and can also consider secondment opportunities.
If you are a nurse, OT or social worker 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 in as a crisis team clinical practitioner, then we would love to hear from you too!
Main duties of the job
Our Crisis Resolution Teams and Crisis Single Point of Access provides a vital service to those experiencing mental ill health. The teams provide 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.
Working for our organisation
Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) provides high quality, safe and innovative mental health care to our patients in the community, in their homes or in hospital. We provide services for adults of working age, adults with learning difficulties, and older people in the London area. We currently deliver the majority of our care to residents in the London Boroughs of Camden and Islington. However, we also provide substance misuse services in Westminster, and a substance misuse and psychological therapies service to people living in Kingston. Our trust is also a member of University College London Partners (UCLP), one of the world’s leading academic health science partnerships. In addition we have specialist programmes which provide help and treatment for: veterans living in London, young people caught in the cycle of gang culture, older people living with dementia and other age related mental health conditions. For more information, please access the following link: https://www.candi.nhs.uk/
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
By working in the CRT you will develop strong leadership and dynamic risk assessment & management skills . We have a proven track record of current staff career progression and have a number of training and development opportunities for suitable staff. We also provide our own bespoke in house crisis team training that new starters can benefit from.
Working in one of our crisis teams you will have the opportunity to work across the different aspects of the service which includes:
Crisis –Single Point of Access
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 crisis team 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, brief supportive counselling skills to work towards shared treatment goals with the service user within their social system.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential criteria
- RMN, etc evidence of further study, Level1 Safeguarding, Mentorship or willingness to undertake
Experience
Essential criteria
- Worked in a senor capacity, evidence of managing others, experience of service user care, practical experience, supervision, de-escalation of willingness to undertake, to be able to adapt to change.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Verbal and written skills, good interpersonal skills, good at ICT
Abilities
Essential criteria
- able to liaise with others, to work autonomously as well as with a team, to be able to maintain boundaries.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- 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.
Safety
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of care planning, group work, equal opportunity and diversity.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Shilpa Nairi
- Job title
- Service Manager - Islington Crisis Services
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07917559036
- Additional information
For more information please do not hesitate to contact Islington Crisis Services manager Shilpa Nairi to find out more and to arrange an informal visit to one of our Crisis Team sites.
Islington Crisis Resolution Team & Crisis Single Point of Access- Based at Highgate Mental Health Centre, N19 5NX
North Camden Crisis Resolution Team – Based at 3 Daleham Gardens, NW3 5BY
South Camden Crisis Reslolution Team – The Rivers, St Pancras Hospital NW1 0PE
Please email [email protected] or telephone 07917 559 036
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