Job requirements
Essential
42 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Skills
Assessing, formulating and working with people presenting in heightened state of distress
- Skills
Clinical risk assessment and contingency planning
- Skills
Excellent defensible record keeping
- Skills
Brief psychological interventions/strategies for managing crisis
- Skills
Self-harm / harm minimisation skills
- Skills
Ability to manage high expressed emotions and severely challenging behaviours
- Skills
Ability to provide appropriate education and training to qualified and unqualified staff as appropriate
- Skills
Communicating (oral and written) complex/highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- Skills
Ability to understand the importance of relatives and partners involvement in care and risk assessment and management planning
- Skills
Ability to undertake a full range of physical interventions e.g. moving and handling and reducing restrictive interventions
- Skills
Ability to demonstrate effective time management and disciplined self-organisation
- Skills
Ability to value diversity and respond constructively to discriminatory behaviour
- Skills
Ability to deal with verbal aggression
- Skills
To have excellent engagement abilities
- Skills
To poses an interest in individuals and a passion for delivering high quality services
- Skills
To work as part of an MDT
- Knowledge
Excellent knowledge of mental illness, signs and symptoms
- Knowledge
Excellent mental health assessment and risk assessment skills
- Knowledge
Excellent Knowledge of a range of evidence based treatments and therapies relevant to service
- Knowledge
Excellent knowledge around harm minimisation
- Knowledge
Understanding of self-harming behaviours and the management of this
- Knowledge
Experience of working with trauma and a high degree of knowledge
- Knowledge
Models of care relevant to working with people in mental health crisis
- Knowledge
A sound knowledge of the Mental Health Act
- Knowledge
A sound knowledge of the Mental Capacity Act
- Knowledge
Knowledge of the current policy and guidance in relation to the development of Mental Health Services
- Knowledge
Excellent knowledge of community resources both statutory and non- statutory
- Knowledge
Detailed understanding of the principles of recovery
- Knowledge
Evidence of continuing professional development
- Experience
Extensive experience of working in Mental health settings
- Experience
Demonstrable experience of case managing people presenting in mental health crisis
- Experience
Substantial experience of leading in risk assessment and risk management planning
- Experience
Co-producing care plans and crisis plans alongside client and families
- Experience
Multi-agency working
- Experience
Experience of working across service boundaries with local authorities, voluntary sector and peer support services
- Experience
Involving service users and carers in care delivery
- Qualifications
Registered Mental Health Nurse
- Qualifications
Current professional registration
- Qualifications
Evidence of continued professional development
- Qualifications
Risk assessment and management training
- Qualifications
Safeguarding Level 3
- Qualifications
Menorship qualification
Desirable
15 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Skills
Mood masters
- Knowledge
Family education training
- Knowledge
Care Act
- Knowledge
Self-harming intervention
- Knowledge
Mood masters
- Knowledge
Experience of working within Trauma informed services
- Experience
Experience of working within a crisis service
- Experience
Experience of acute inpatient experience
- Experience
Working with service users and carers in service improvement
- Experience
Values based recruitment
- Qualifications
Therapies skills training/ qualification
- Qualifications
Psychosocial interventions
- Qualifications
Suicide prevention training
- Qualifications
STORM
- Qualifications
Supervision training
Job overview
- hours per week 24-hour
As part of unplanned mental health services in Doncaster we are able to offer a rare opportunity for motivated professionals to join Doncaster Crisis Team.
The role will involve the triage assessment and intervention of service users in crisis and will involve telephone, home visits and assessments in A&E.
We are seeking to recruit dynamic and positive practitioners to support in this new service.
We are looking to recruit a permanent Band 6 qualified practitioner who is enthusiastic and highly motivated to join our busy team and who has a passion and desire to work with individuals in crisis within the community delivering a caring and safe service.
Previous applicants need not apply
Main duties of the job
We are looking for passionate, reliable and progressive staff who work within a strengths and recovery based approach.
Liaison with families and supporting their understanding of crisis management is an important part of the role.
The post will require individuals to work alongside partner organisations, third sector and peer support services, transparency and openness is vital.
This is a great time to begin working in the Crisis Service as we are starting to embark in change around the community working age model and you will have the opportunity to contribute and lead in some of these changes.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached job description and person specification to view the full details about the role
We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if there are a high amount of applications
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.
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This advert is for Crisis Practitioner with Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust in Doncaster, England. It is listed as a Band 6 Mental health professionals role. The advertised salary is £39,959 - £48,117 per annum. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 18 Oct 2026.
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