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Job summary

Main area
Mental Health Child and Adolescent
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
325-7216034-CYPS-B
Employer
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Gatton Place
Town
Redhill
Salary
£50,008 - £56,908 Incl 5% Fringe HCAS, pa, pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
14/08/2025 23:59

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Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust logo

Crisis Intervention Practitioner

NHS AfC: Band 7

Would you like to work in an organisation that sits in the top 10 best NHS Mental Health, Learning Disability and Community Services Trust  to work for.  This ranking is based on staff feedback in the 2023 NHS Staff Survey.

Job overview

Due to exciting changes, we are seeking  Band 7 Crisis Intervention Practitioners within the Mindworks Crisis Intervention Service for Surrey.

Are you an RMN, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist with experience working with Children and Young people, looking to lead & support assessments and interventions for young people who are in crisis?

Our team provide a 7 day week crisis intervention service, offering discovery conversations to children, young people & their families presenting with emotional and mental health crisis in local acute hospitals and community bases. Our operational hours are 9am-5pm Monday to Sunday including Bank Holidays. Weekend and bank holiday shifts will be expected.

The successful candidate will hold an appropriate professional registration with NMC or HCPC or SWE. Experience and competence in working with vulnerable people in crisis is essential. Experience of working with children and young people is required.

There has never been a better time to join our developing and dynamic Crisis Intervention service; set within our friendly and supportive teams we encourage enthusiastic applicants to apply.

2 x Full-time position - Gatton Place, Redhill

1 x Full-time position - Azalea House, Guildford

 

Main duties of the job

The main duties within this role are leading and supporting assessment, risk and care planning alongside Children and Young People (CYPS), their family or carers and the acute staff to safely facilitate discharge with follow up care planned in the community.

Supporting junior staff to provide high quality care, sharing learning and developing skills through supervision and training while maintaining KPI's and collecting data to support the service growth and development are all part of this exciting role. These posts offer structured career progression with recognised training packages including modules in Crisis intervention with young people, DBT skills with an opportunity to join CYPIAPT.

GOLDEN HELLO

We are pleased to announce that we are in a position to offer a Golden Hello payment of £3,000 (pro rata) for this vacancy eligible to the external candidates only. Payment would be made in three instalments. Further details can be found in the supporting documents. 

Working for our organisation

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.

We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.

Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.

Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.

For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.

Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.

Working from home contracts do not attract high cost area payments.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please check the job description and personal specification document for more information on the requirement for this job. 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Qualification in Nursing, Social Work or Occupational Therapy

Experience

Essential criteria
  • 3 years post qualifying experience, 1 of which must have been a year as a Band 6 in community. Experience working with CYP with mental health needs in the community crisis setting
  • Experience in undertaking mental health assessments, risk assessments, risk formulations, crisis and contingency planning and use of outcome measures.
Desirable criteria
  • Working with other agencies and as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
  • Good understanding of family functioning and knowledge and awareness of Safeguarding procedures

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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.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Caroline Musendo
Job title
GM for CIS and PLN Service
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07765221621
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