Job summary
Mental Health Crisis Assessment Practitioners provide face-to-face assessments to provide clinical assessment, formulation and short-term care planning for people presenting in mental health crisis. They will respond to people referred wherever they are including at home, in the community and other services area. They will ensuring patients get the right care, at the right time, in the right place to ensure people's care move on to the correct next stage for that person.
Clients will be screened and tele-triaged by clinicians from our existing 24/7 - 365 Single Point of Access (SPA). Following this Mental Health Crisis Assessment Practitioners will use a range of brief interventions to empower patients, carers and their families in decision making and divert to a range of health and social care resources for support including crisis support at home, intensive treatment and if necessary care and treatment to be delivered in a hospital setting.
Main duties of the job
Mental Health Crisis Assessment Practitioners provide face-to-face assessments to provide clinical assessment, formulation and short-term care planning for people presenting in mental health crisis. They will respond to people referred wherever they are including at home, in the community and other services area. They will ensuring patients get the right care, at the right time, in the right place to ensure people's care move on to the correct next stage for that person.
Clients will be screened and tele-triaged by clinicians from our existing 24/7 - 365 Single Point of Access (SPA). Following this Mental Health Crisis Assessment Practitioners will use a range of brief interventions to empower patients, carers and their families in decision making and divert to a range of health and social care resources for support including crisis support at home, intensive treatment and if necessary care and treatment to be delivered in a hospital setting.
About us
CNWL can offer:
- Flexible working
- Staying well at work service for tailored employment related support to staff
- Staff wellbeing zone for free and confidential online health and wellbeing programmes
- A range of staff networks: The PRIDE@CNWL Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and other sexual and gender minorities (LGBT+) network
- Lived Experience of Mental Health staff network
- Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Network (BAME)
- Discounts and savings at hundreds of retailers nationwide with My Trust benefits: you can save money on your weekly food shops, household bills, toiletries and cosmetics, cinema tickets, meals out and holidays or weekend breaks.
- Childcare vouchers
- Salary sacrifice
- Travel discounts
As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Provide evidence based clinical needs and risk assessment, making autonomous clinical decisions about the most appropriate urgent and acute offer to meet assessed need
- Take decision allocate to the Home Treatment Caseloads or decisions to admit (DTAs) and share these recommendations through collaborative working and support.
- Be able to make and articulate your autonomous decision making in a high paced area, enabling positive risk taking which other services may challenge
- Undertake clinical risk assessments, based on latest clinical research evidence and compliant with local policies and procedures.
- 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.
- 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.
- Prepared to work as part of a team feeding into the central Urgent Care Service hub, providing support and empowerment across the team.
- Ability to understand and adapt to system-wide needs, working flexibility across geographies covered by CNWL as required, particularly out of hours.
12. Lead or contribute to handover and communication with colleagues
Person Specification
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- You are expected to have the skills required to act as a professional, registered clinician and to adhere to your professional Code of Conduct
- Ability to communicate at all levels, with the multi- disciplinary team, with other teams internal and external to CNWL, GPs, external stakeholders (such as the policy, ambulance service), carers and family.
- Ability to communicate in writing, and skills in writing letters and reports
- Clinical risk assessment and contingency planning
- Ability to communicate, triage and assess clinical information over the telephone
- Ability to co-ordinate and prioritise tasks.
Desirable
- Brief psychological interventions/strategies for managing crisis
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Mental Health Nurse Qualification (RMHN) or Social Work Qualification OR adult / LD nursing qualification with mental health experience
- Current NMC/HCPC Registration
- Evidence of relevant continuing professional development.
Desirable
- Teaching (clinical practice) qualification/certificate or equivalent experience/Mentorship qualification
Experience
Essential
- Previous experience as a clinician in an acute or community mental health setting.
- Multi-agency working/working across service interfaces.
- Working with people presenting in mental health crisis
Other
Essential
- Willingness to work unsocial hours and different shift patterns
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website .
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants .
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website .
Employer details
Employer name
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Mental Health Crisis Assessment Service (MHCAS)
St Charles Hospital
London
W10 6DZ