MHSPA Crisis Care Practitioner( Nurse)

Job overview

Are you looking for a challenging and rewarding role within frontline mental health crisis care?

The Mental Health Single Point of Access (MH SPA) is seeking experienced Band 6 Crisis Care Practitioners to join our dynamic and supportive team in London.

This is a unique opportunity to work within a fast paced, high pressure crisis service supporting patients across both the MH SPA and NHS 111 Mental Health service. The role combines telephone triage, complex clinical decision making, face to face community assessments and support to junior colleagues, offering excellent exposure to a broad range of acute mental health presentations.

As part of our service, you will play a vital role in supporting individuals experiencing mental health crisis, often managing high risk, complex and emotionally demanding situations requiring rapid assessment, sound clinical judgement and confident decision making.

This is an excellent development opportunity for clinicians wishing to strengthen their crisis assessment, risk management and autonomous practice skills within a senior clinical role.

We are proud to offer a supportive and collaborative working environment, with strong peer support, reflective practice and leadership oversight in recognition of the emotionally demanding nature of crisis work.

Main duties of the job

As a Crisis Care Practitioner, you will provide urgent mental health assessment and intervention for individuals contacting the service in crisis, whether for themselves or others.

The role involves:

• Managing complex and high risk triage calls, undertaking robust mental health and risk assessments in time-sensitive situations
• Completing face to face community assessments for patients requiring urgent in person review
• Formulating risk management and crisis plans to support safe and effective patient care
• Working autonomously to make clinical decisions within a fast paced environment
• Liaising with partner agencies including GP’s, police, ambulance services, emergency departments and community mental health teams to coordinate safe care pathways
• Supporting and guiding junior staff with clinical decision making and risk formulation
• Managing referrals effectively to ensure patients access the most appropriate service and unnecessary hospital admissions are avoided
• Maintaining accurate, contemporaneous clinical documentation and records
• Contributing to service improvement and ongoing development of crisis pathways

This role requires clinicians who are resilient, adaptable and able to remain calm and professionally curious under pressure. Successful applicants must be confident managing competing demands, uncertainty and emotionally challenging situations whilst maintaining compassionate, patient centred care.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view as attached

The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.