Crisis Clinician

Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

Crisis Clinician

The closing date is 11 November 2025

We are looking for caring, compassionate, energetic and motivated individuals who are 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 evidence‑based interventions with the aim to prevent and reduce difficulties experienced by service users and carers during mental health crisis.

The team operates 24/7 providing an All Age Crisis telephone service, Crisis Assessment Service 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.

Candidates must have 18 months post qualifying experience including sign off of appropriate preceptorship or competency framework.

Main duties of the job

• Provide rapid assessment and brief evidence based clinical interventions
• Responsibility for the development, planning and implementation of brief care and treatment interventions for individual patients within the Intensive Home Based Treatment Pathway.
• Ensure that individual episodes of care are delivered in a timely, effective and integrated manner.
• 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.
• Undertake clinical risk assessments, based on latest empirical evidence and compliant with local policies and procedures.
• Act as the patients and relatives advocate.
• Enable patients and carers to manage disability, loss and change.
• 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.

About us

We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family.

We want you to feel like you are part of a close knit team at TEWV.

It\’s important to us that you valued and appreciate and that are why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer.

Some of our benefits are highlighted here:

• Generous pay, pensions and leave, we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package.
• Work life balance, flexible working and support a range of flexible options, such as: part‑time working and job sharing.
• Career development, There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes.
• Car lease, our staff benefits from competitive deals to lease cars.
• NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well‑known retail brands through the NHS Discounts website.

Other benefits include:

• Counselling services
• Long service awards
• Cycle to work scheme

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.

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.

Person Specification

Qualification

• Current professional registration with an approved professional body.
• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development.
• For registered nurses: MIP, FLIP, ENB 998 Teaching & Assessing in Clinical Practice or City & Guilds 730 Teaching in Adult Education. Must be achieved within agreed timescale.
• 18 months post qualifying experience including sign off of appropriate preceptorship or competency framework
• 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)
• Post‑graduate qualification in a relevant area.

Skills

• 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.

Experience

• 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

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.

Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

£38,682 to £46,580 a year (pro rata) per annum