The Crisis Assessment Practitioner role will involve carrying out rapid clinical risk and mental health assessments, formulation, short-term contingency planning and onward referral for people presenting in mental health crisis in the borough of Lambeth. Assessments typically take place in people's homes, however can be at team base or GP surgeries.

The service operates Monday to Friday 9-5pm currently however there is a proposal to extend working hours to include late evening and weekend cover.

Working within the community, the Crisis Assessment Practitioner will provide face-to-face assessments and work closely with other mental health services and agencies across the borough of Lambeth, including stakeholders in the Lambeth Alliance. They will act as a trusted assessor for SLaM and decide on the most appropriate crisis response and treatment pathway for people contacting the Crisis Outreach Service, in collaboration with the Band 7 Advanced Practitioner in the team.

Using a range of NICE recommended approaches including brief solution-focused interventions, Crisis Assessment Practitioners in the Crisis Outreach Service will empower patients, carers and their families in decision making and to access a range of health and social care resources for support.

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 Crisis Outreach Service
• 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

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) provide the widest range of NHS mental health services in the UK as well as substance misuse services for people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol. We work closely with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London and are part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre. There are very few organisations in the world that have such wide-ranging capabilities working with mental illness. Our scope is unique because it is built on three major foundations: care and treatment, science and research, and training.

SLaM employ around 5000 staff and serve a local population of 1.1 million people. We have more than 230 services including inpatient wards, outpatient and community services. Currently, provide inpatient care for approximately 5,300 people each year and treat more than 45,000 patients in the community in Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark as well as substance misuse services for residents of Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich.

By coming to work at SLaM, you will gain experience of being part of an organisation with a rich history and international reputation in mental health care. You will have access to professional development and learning opportunities, and have the chance to work alongside people who are world leaders in their field.

Job description

Job responsibilities

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 Crisis Outreach Service 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.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Professional qualification eg RMN, OT
• Current registration with professional body
• Evidence of continuing professional development

Desirable

• Mentorship qualification

Experience

Essential

• Mental health care/providing treatment relevant to crisis services
• Working with people presenting in mental health crisis
• Multi agency working/working across service interfaces
• Working within a multicultural framework

Knowledge/skills

Essential

• Evidence based clinical interventions relevant to the service
• Models of care and treatment relevant to working with people in mental health crisis
• Assessing, formulating and working with people presenting in heightened state of distress

Desirable

• Relevant specialist clinical courses/training.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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 (Opens in a new tab) .

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 (Opens in a new tab) .

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Orchard House, Lambeth Hospital

108 Landor Road

Stockwell

SW9 9NU

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