Main area Mental Health Grade NHS AfC: Band 4 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday) Job ref 334-NUR-7051343-AP
Employer South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Jeanette Wallace House& Croydon Health & Wellbeing Space Town Croydon Salary £31,081 - £33,665 per annum inclusive of HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 26/06/2025 23:59
Crisis Support & Recovery Practitioner
NHS AfC: Band 4
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.
We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’.
We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone’s potential as change makers.
The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role.We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I’m going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you’ll be part of something special.
As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job overview
We ae excited to advertise a new role within the Croydon A&L service which will involve working in conjunction with the Croydon Health & wellbeing space to support Service Users in the community.
The Croydon Assessment & Liaison (A&L) Service is made up of three teams North, South & Central. We provide advice on the best treatment and care options available to people between the ages of 18-65 living in the London Borough of Croydon who have moderate to severe mental illness, such as anxiety, depression or personality disorder. We work closely with the Croydon Health & Wellbeing space, GPs, patients and carers.
The Croydon Health and Wellbeing Space (CHWS) is a drop-in service located in the heart of a busy shopping centre in Croydon (The Whitgift Centre). The space is open 6 days a week, 9-5pm. We operate drop-in times, 10-1pm, and the times outside this are for support appointments. The post holder will support with the assessment and delivery of psychological interventions for both individual and groups. Briefly, this may involve the assessment/triage of new referrals for psychology, followed by either the appropriate sign-posting of clients to alternative talking therapy services, or the offer and delivery of support in the form of group and individual psychological interventions. These psychological interventions will be supervised by a qualified clinical psychologist. The role will be during week days and operate between 9am and 5pm.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work across the Croydon Assessment & Liaison Team (3 days a week) and The Croydon Health and wellbeing space (2 days a week), providing group and individual work, including psychoeducation, crisis management, carers support, and psychological and emotional support. The post holder will be responsible for co-facilitating groups at the CHWS and supporting a small caseload of patients in Croydon A&L.
Working for our organisation
Some of our benefits are highlighted here:
· Generous pay, pensions and leave, we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.
· Work life balance, flexible working and support a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working and job sharing.
· Career development, There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes
· NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands though Health Service Discounts website.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification for details regarding the job description and main responsibilities.
Person specification
Qualifications
* NVQ Level 3 completed in a mental health setting or equivalent qualification.
* Undergraduate degree (e.g. Bsc Psychology, or equivalent
* Training in other specific interventions e.g. CBT/ DBT therapy, solution focused therapy
Experience
* Experience of working in community mental health or acute inpatient settings
* Experience of facilitating psychological or emotional support groups
* Experience of supporting patients during a mental health crisis
* Experience that supports working with, and addressing issues of, diversity within local communities
* Experience of delivering psychoeducation
* Experience of supporting carers/relatives
Knowledge
* Good theoretical knowledge of the problems experienced by and needs of at least one client group and of methods of assessment and treatment.
* Ability to present information both written and oral and communicate this effectively
* Knowledge of psychological therapies (i.e. CBT, MBT, DBT, ACT)
* Knowledge of social care needs and support available
* Ability to conduct clinical audits
abilities
* Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team, participating in effective team functioning and holding team roles.
* Ability to identify and follow relevant clinical governance procedures
* Ability to communicate complex, sensitive or contentious information to people who may have impediments to understanding
The Trust is committed to providing services which embrace diversity and that promote equality of opportunity. We are a Disability Confident Employer, we welcome applicants from all sections of the community and people of all protected characteristics. We provide reasonable adjustments for candidates with a disability and are committed to treating people fairly with compassion, respect and dignity and in promoting equality and human rights. We aim to put this commitment into practice by:
* Embedding our commitment to tackling inequality, eliminating discrimination and harassment; promoting equality of opportunity and fostering good relations in our everyday practice
* Ensuring that all our services and all staff understand and support our commitment
* We believe that people who use our services, their carers and our staff, should be treated with compassion, respect and dignity
Please note:
* That all applications for this post will need to be made online
* That you read and understand the Job Description and Personal Specification attached to the role. Your Statement in Support should reflect the requirements specified as your application will be judged against these criteria
* That the closing date listed is a guide only and that the vacancy may close earlier should sufficient number of applicants have been received. We advise that you submit your application as early as possible
* That once you have submitted your application you agree to your application being transferred to a 3rd party e-recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs
* That should you not have heard from us within three weeks from the closing date your application has not successful
* That priority consideration for applications may be given to at-risk NHS employees
* That should you be successful and appointed, you authorise South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust to confirm your previous NHS service via an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process
* That we are a smoke-free Trust
SLaM is a Stonewall Diversity Champion, Stonewall is the largest Lesbian, Gay, Bi and Trans (LGBT) rights charity in Europe’
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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.
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