Job Description

Is a role where you can provide a safe and calm space for people suffering from mental health crisis appealing to you ?



This could be the job for you. We're looking for talented mental health professionals, including nurses, social workers and occupational therapists to work in our 111 Mental Health Option Crisis Service in Suffolk.



Our vision is to ensure that all service users, carers and professionals have access to a crisis service 24/7 that can provide support, advice and assessment in a compassionate, patient and recovery focused way. We believe that crisis is self-determined by the person or people experiencing the situation and that this requires an empathetic and non-judgmental approach, which holds those experiencing the crisis at the very centre.



Working via telephone conducting assessments across the crisis pathway, our Crisis Care Practitioners are experts in validating, de-escalating crisis and coaching people in distress tolerance and emotional regulation strategies.



Using a range of brief psychological interventions, our Crisis Care Practitioners work within the recovery model of care by empowering patients, carers and families to manage distress and crisis effectively.



You'll be undertaking clinical risk assessments, based on latest empirical evidence and compliance with local policies and procedures with awareness and knowledge of safeguarding of adults and children and positive risk management.



Job description subject to job evaluation


The post involves working with clients of the Mental Health Crisis Service over the phone. The working environment includes exposure to high levels of distress in others. There is a requirement for substantial periods of concentration and sitting as well as being able to move flexibly within the crisis pathway.



We are proud of our culture of honesty, team involvement and ownership of quality patient care with job satisfaction. There will be opportunities to be involved with training, strategy and service development.

Benefits included with this role are:

NHS pension



comprehensive in house & external training programmes



career progression



starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)



staff physio service



NHS discounts and many more



Please find attached our and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!



Answering calls from Service Users and on occasion professionals



Triaging and assessing over the phone



Safety Planning



Documentation of above including referrals, Notes, referrals to other teams



Liaison with other professionals and teams



On occasion, creating formulations and plans for our regular callers

Taking lead/champion subjects such as:

Learning Disability,



Youth, Drug & Alcohol, perinatal, etc. Within that is opportunity for training, sharing knowledge with the team, attending conferences or meetings



Face to face assessments where appropriate



Shadowing other teams where appropriate/possible



Brief intervention over the phone where appropriate



Quality Improvement



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