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Band 6
Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working
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Senior Clinician - Crisis Resolution Team

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS TrustThe Elgar Unit, Newtown Hospital, Newtown Road, Worcester, WR5 1JG, United Kingdom£39,959 - £48,117Closes 31/08/2026

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Band
Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Pattern
Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working
Posted
17/08/2026
Closes
31/08/2026

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Role summary

Join the Crisis Resolution Team in Worcestershire to provide urgent mental health care and support to patients experiencing a crisis. This dynamic role involves rapid assessments and bespoke crisis interventions, with opportunities for continuous professional development and career progression. The team prioritises staff wellbeing through supervision and reflective practice, and promotes flexible working. You will be responsible for gatekeeping inpatient beds and managing patients in the designated place of safety.

Essential criteria

  • Registered professional with mental health specialist training
  • Evidence of CPD
  • Required to train to safety intervention level 2
  • Required to complete intermediate life support training
  • I understand that I will be asked to provide original certificates to verify my qualifications at point of offer.

Desirable criteria

  • Teaching/Assessing qualification
  • Skills & Abilities
  • Ability to prioritise workload.
  • Creative flexible approaches to risk assessment.
  • A positive attitude and able to act on feedback.
  • Knowledge of relapse prevention.
  • A broad understanding of risk assessment.
  • Knowledge of issues involved in the treatment of mental illness
  • Minimum 12 months experience of working in a mental health setting/service as a registered profession
  • Assessment and management of clinical risk
  • Working within a multi-disciplinary team
  • Managing complex needs and severe mental illness
  • Experience working with severe and enduring mental illness including those with complex emotional needs
  • Psychosocial interventions
  • Use of clinical assessment measures
  • Leadership skills
  • Registered professional with mental health specialist training
  • Evidence of CPD
  • Required to train to safety intervention level 2
  • Required to complete intermediate life support training
  • I understand that I will be asked to provide original certificates to verify my qualifications at point of offer.
  • Teaching/Assessing qualification
  • Skills & Abilities
  • Ability to prioritise workload.
  • Creative flexible approaches to risk assessment.
  • A positive attitude and able to act on feedback.
  • Knowledge of relapse prevention.
  • A broad understanding of risk assessment.
  • Knowledge of issues involved in the treatment of mental illness
  • Minimum 12 months experience of working in a mental health setting/service as a registered profession
  • Assessment and management of clinical risk
  • Working within a multi-disciplinary team
  • Managing complex needs and severe mental illness
  • Experience working with severe and enduring mental illness including those with complex emotional needs
  • Psychosocial interventions
  • Use of clinical assessment measures
  • Leadership skills

Useful to know

Band 6 pay context

Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.

This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.

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Job summary

We are

looking for a motivated and ambitious individual to join our Crisis Resolution

Team. We provide urgent care and support to people in Worcestershire who are

experiencing a mental health crisis. We are a dynamic and responsive team who

strive to continuously develop and adapt to the needs of patients in

Worcestershire providing compassionate and trauma-informed care in the best

interests of our patients. The team conduct a variety of work including rapid

and comprehensive mental health assessments and bespoke crisis interventions.

Working in

the Crisis Resolution Team will bring you variation every shift and provide

regular opportunities for CPD and further career progression opportunities are

supported. Supervision and reflective practice are prioritised to ensure the

wellbeing of staff is optimised. We promote flexible working to support the

balance between work and home life.

This is a

full-time post, but we would be flexible to offering fewer hours for the right

candidate. The shift pattern consists of days and waking nights over a 7-day

period including bank holidays working x3 days a week. The team is based in

Worcester but travel across the county may be required.

If

you are looking for a new, exciting challenge and this role interests you

please get in touch, and we would be happy to have an informal chat or visit to

the unit.

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