Crisis Team Clinician
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 04/09/2026
- Closes
- 06/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for a qualified and registered Nurse, Social Worker, or Occupational Therapist to join the Crisis Response and Home Treatment Team in Buckinghamshire. The clinician will develop individualised care packages for service users, deliver home treatment interventions, and participate in an online acute treatment programme and clinics. The role involves managing risk in a fast-paced environment and participating in a duty rota covering 7 days a week.
Essential criteria
- Registered Occupational Therapist educated to degree level or equivalent.
- Teaching qualification or working towards qualification.
Desirable criteria
- Prescribing qualification.
- Phlebotomy qualification.
- Health promotion qualification , including smoking cessation.
- PSI qualification.
- Understanding of team working models.
- Experience of implementing evidence-based practice.
- Ability to cope under pressure and problem solve when managing complex situations and competing priorities
- Experience of being part of a service improvement project.
- Good negotiation skills and able to use initiative
- Good working knowledge physical health management strategies and interventions.
- High level of clinical knowledge and skill including knowledge of recent national, regional and local health strategies.
- Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance.
- Able to communicate at various levels with empathy.
- Experience of working independently and set own priorities in line with team vision.
- Knowledge of a range of IT programs including Microsoft excel and office.
- Ability to contribute to the identification of individual / team / service training and development needs.
- Ability to analyse professional and ethical issues
- Registered Occupational Therapist educated to degree level or equivalent.
- Teaching qualification or working towards qualification.
- Prescribing qualification.
- Phlebotomy qualification.
- Health promotion qualification , including smoking cessation.
- PSI qualification.
- Understanding of team working models.
- Experience of implementing evidence-based practice.
- Ability to cope under pressure and problem solve when managing complex situations and competing priorities
- Experience of being part of a service improvement project.
- Good negotiation skills and able to use initiative
- Good working knowledge physical health management strategies and interventions.
- High level of clinical knowledge and skill including knowledge of recent national, regional and local health strategies.
- Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance.
- Able to communicate at various levels with empathy.
- Experience of working independently and set own priorities in line with team vision.
- Knowledge of a range of IT programs including Microsoft excel and office.
- Ability to contribute to the identification of individual / team / service training and development needs.
- Ability to analyse professional and ethical issues
Useful to know
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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Oxford Health NHS Trust
Crisis Team Clinician
The closing date is 06 September 2026
Job summary
Are you a qualified and registered Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist seeking a new and exciting challenge?
The Crisis Response and Home Treatment Team in Buckinghamshire Mental Health Services is a key part of the Urgent Care Pathway meeting the demands of the Ten-Year Plan to provide Crisis Response and Home Treatment Services to the county of Buckinghamshire.
Clinicians employed into the team are part of an exciting and developing service aimed at supporting our most vulnerable patients and their families in the least restrictive setting possible, by providing a variety of highly intensive interventions at home.
Main duties of the job
A Crisis can manifest with a range of needs and whether you have a background in mental health nursing, social care or occupational therapy we want you to use your skills as part of a team to develop individualised care packages for our service users and their families.
We deliver home treatment interventions, as well as an online acute treatment programme and clinics at Saffron House, with support from psychiatrists, psychologist and the other clinicians. Training in brief interventions is encouraged and fully supported, as well as any other training related to Crisis Intervention and Home treatment.
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