CRISS Practitioner

Are you looking for mental health jobs in Leeds, York or with one of our regional services operating across the country? We have a range of NHS job opportunities, placements and specialities in our clinical, research, and professional support teams across Leeds and York. At Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT), we strive to provide high-quality mental health and learning disability services as an employer of choice. We can only achieve this by putting our staff and the people using our services at the centre of everything we do. This starts with the people we employ. We recruit based on values and qualifications (where required) and believe lived experience is an advantage. We look for potential, not perfection, and this means that together, we are as diverse as the communities we care for.

Simply put, we seek out people who care, act with integrity and have the right skills. We want to add to our incredible colleagues, students and volunteers who share these principles, with people like you, who find empathy comes easily and who treat everyone with respect without thinking.

Main area: Crisis Resolution Intensive Support Service

Grade: Band 5

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week

Job ref: 173-68724-ACUTESite: St Mary’s House

Town: Leeds

Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 Per Annum

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 19/01/2025 23:59

Job overview: The Crisis Resolution and Intensive Support Service is a dynamic and flexible service which offers a true alternative to inpatient admission over 24 hours meeting the acute needs of working age adults across the city. We are seeking to recruit dynamic and positive practitioners to support in the service.

We’re looking to recruit permanent band 5 qualified practitioners to join the Crisis Resolution Intensive Support Service. You will have a permanent base in one area but will be expected to work citywide across the bases dependent on clinical needs. This permanent base is subject to change depending on skill mix and clinical capacity.

The successful Occupational Therapists/Mental health nurse or social worker will work with a range of service users as part of a multi-disciplinary team, providing triage, assessment and interventions to support recovery and inclusion. This will include the provision of highly skilled assessments, psychological interventions, safety planning, and contributing to formulations.

Main duties of the job:

• To present as a positive and professional role model to all staff within the team, striving to maintain a philosophy of service user involvement in continuously improving the service.
• Work as an integrated member of the clinical team, participating in all aspects of day to day service provision.
• Provide same day/urgent assessment, care planning, care delivery in collaboration with a Band 6 practitioner.
• Conduct telephone triages under the supervision of a more senior nurse.
• Complete assessments alongside a band 6 practitioner for decision making purposes and assess risk for those potentially unknown to services.
• Work closely with inpatient and community services, providing an excellent alternative to inpatient admission and supporting in transitions points for service users to community services.
• Operate within a community setting, which may require lone working, while utilizing the team to manage risks where support is needed.

Person specification:

Qualifications: Have a recognised professional qualification.

Experience: Post Registration experience of working with adults of all ages with acute mental health problems. Assessment and problem-solving skills particularly in the area of crisis assessment and treatment. Experience of formulating crisis plans/care plans for people in an acute mental health crisis. Ability to consult, liaise and negotiate with service users, carers/family members, other professionals and the wider community.

LYPFT is committed to upholding its statutory responsibilities in relation to safeguarding adults and children. Please refer to job description for further information. Patient Safety is a priority at LYPFT with a focus on system-based improvement and creating opportunities for learning. LYPFT is a member of the Disability Confident scheme and is committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. As part of the Trust's commitment to its Gold Standard Armed Forces Covenant status, members of the Armed Forces Community are entitled to a guaranteed interview subject to meeting the role criteria.