Crisis Practitioner

Essential

• Registered Mental Health Nurse
• Current professional registration
• Evidence of continued professional development
• Risk assessment and management training
• Safeguarding Level 3
• Menorship qualification

Essential

• Extensive experience of working in Mental health settings
• Demonstrable experience of case managing people presenting in mental health crisis
• Substantial experience of leading in risk assessment and risk management planning
• Co-producing care plans and crisis plans alongside client and families
• Multi-agency working
• Experience of working across service boundaries with local authorities, voluntary sector and peer support services
• Involving service users and carers in care delivery

Desirable

• Experience of working within a crisis service
• Experience of acute inpatient experience
• Working with service users and carers in service improvement
• Values based recruitment

Essential

• Excellent knowledge of mental illness, signs and symptoms
• Excellent mental health assessment and risk assessment skills
• Excellent Knowledge of a range of evidence based treatments and therapies relevant to service
• Excellent knowledge around harm minimisation
• Understanding of self-harming behaviours and the management of this
• Experience of working with trauma and a high degree of knowledge
• Models of care relevant to working with people in mental health crisis
• A sound knowledge of the Mental Health Act
• A sound knowledge of the Mental Capacity Act
• Knowledge of the current policy and guidance in relation to the development of Mental Health Services
• Excellent knowledge of community resources both statutory and non- statutory
• Detailed understanding of the principles of recovery
• Evidence of continuing professional development

Essential

• Assessing, formulating and working with people presenting in heightened state of distress
• Clinical risk assessment and contingency planning
• Excellent defensible record keeping
• Brief psychological interventions/strategies for managing crisis
• Self-harm / harm minimisation skills
• Ability to manage high expressed emotions and severely challenging behaviours
• Ability to provide appropriate education and training to qualified and unqualified staff as appropriate
• 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
• Ability to understand the importance of relatives and partners involvement in care and risk assessment and management planning
• Ability to undertake a full range of physical interventions e.g. moving and handling and reducing restrictive interventions
• Ability to demonstrate effective time management and disciplined self-organisation
• Ability to value diversity and respond constructively to discriminatory behaviour
• Ability to deal with verbal aggression
• To have excellent engagement abilities
• To poses an interest in individuals and a passion for delivering high quality services
• To work as part of an MDT