Visa Note
While this employer offers a Certificate of Sponsorship for qualified candidates, applicants must verify their eligibility to work in the UK with the employer directly. Even with sponsorship, there may be specific requirements regarding professional registration, language proficiency, and criminal record checks that must be met before employment can be confirmed.
Job Details
Company: Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust
Location: Foss Park Hospital, Haxby Road, York, YO31 8TA
Salary: £38,682 to £46,580 a year pro rata, per annum
Schedule: Part-time (20.5 hours)
Employment Type: Permanent
Language: English
Application Deadline: 28 December 2025
Reference Number: 346-NYA-185-25-B
About the Role
We are currently looking for a part-time (20.5 hours) Crisis Clinician to join the Crisis Team in York. This is a Band 6 position open to Mental Health Nurses and Allied Health professionals who are currently registered with the NMC, HCPC or SWE. The ideal candidate will be caring, compassionate, energetic, and motivated, with a passion for improving the mental health of service users.
This pivotal role is part of the acute services pathway, focused on providing evidence-based interventions to prevent and reduce difficulties experienced by service users and carers during mental health crisis. The team operates 24/7, providing an All Age Crisis telephone service, Crisis Assessment Service, Health Based Place of Safety, and Intensive Home Treatment pathway.
The service can be fast-paced, requiring the ideal applicant to be extremely organised and self-motivated to provide high-quality assessment, triage, and formulation for service users accessing our service. The post holder will be responsible for the clinical leadership of more junior team members, prioritising workload and utilising resources appropriately to ensure service user needs are met.
Key Responsibilities
The main duties of this Crisis Clinician position include:
- Providing rapid assessment and brief evidence-based clinical interventions
- Developing, planning, and implementing brief care and treatment interventions for individual patients within the Intensive Home Based Treatment Pathway
- Ensuring individual episodes of care are delivered in a timely, effective, and integrated manner
- Promoting a recovery model that empowers patients, carers, and relatives to be at the forefront of decision making and ownership of their packages of care and treatment
- Undertaking clinical risk assessments based on the latest empirical evidence and compliant with local policies and procedures
- Acting as the patients’ and relatives’ advocate
- Enabling patients and carers to manage disability, loss, and change
- Championing patients’ rights, including dignity, equality, diversity, choice, and respect
- Maintaining good documentation within appropriate systems of record sharing
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential:
- Current professional registration with an approved professional body
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
- For registered nurses: MIP, FLIP, ENB 998 Teaching & Assessing in Clinical Practice or City & Guilds 730 Teaching in Adult Education (must be achieved within agreed timescale)
- 18 months post qualifying experience including sign off of appropriate preceptorship or competency framework
- Clinical Supervisor qualification
- Recognised sign-off mentor, clinical educator or equivalent (must be achieved within agreed timescale)
- Key skills in literacy, numeracy and ITQ level 2 (or equivalent)
Desirable:
- Leadership or management qualification
- Post-graduate qualification in a relevant area
Knowledge and Skills
Essential:
- Demonstrable knowledge to post-graduate level of evidence-based practice in caring for patients in the designated field
- Ability to provide leadership, monitor, co-ordinate, and prioritise the activities of a team
- Ability to communicate complex and sensitive information effectively to patients, carers/families, and all members of the multidisciplinary team
- Ability to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team and undertake lead professional responsibilities
Experience
Essential:
- Significant experience working with people with mental ill health in a community setting
- Experience working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers
- Experience providing clinical supervision to individuals or groups as professionally appropriate
- Experience mentoring or facilitating students on practice placement
- Experience working in a multi-disciplinary team
- Experience with quality improvement activities
About the Employer
Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust is committed to ensuring staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work-life balance. We offer an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. At TEWV, we want you to feel like part of a close-knit team.
We value our staff and appreciate their contributions, which is why we offer a comprehensive benefits package. Some of our benefits include:
- Generous pay, pensions and leave: We offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package
- Work-life balance: We support flexible working and a range of flexible options, such as part-time working and job sharing
- Career development: There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career, supported through mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership, and other talent programmes
- Car lease: Our staff benefits from competitive deals to lease cars
- NHS discounts: With discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands through the Health Service Discounts website
Additional benefits include counselling services, wellbeing events, long service awards, and a cycle to work scheme.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975, and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled Worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants applying for entry clearance into the UK have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information, please see the NHS Careers website for overseas health professionals.
How to Apply
Apply Instructions: Apply via NHS Jobs website.
For international applicants specifically:
- Verify your eligibility for a Certificate of Sponsorship with the employer before applying
- Ensure you have all required documentation, including proof of professional registration and qualifications
- Contact Lauren Dye (Team Manager) at [email protected] or 01904461133 with any questions about the application process
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Contact Information
For questions about the job, contact:
Name: Lauren Dye
Title: Team Manager
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 01904461133
Additional Information
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying. Supporting documents, including the full job description, can be downloaded from the application portal.
Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, or age.
For more information about the trust, please visit our website: https://www.tewv.nhs.uk/
Please note that all applications will be treated in the strictest confidence, and we may contact referees prior to interview.
The closing date for applications is 28 December 2025. We encourage early applications as this vacancy may be filled before the advertised closing date.
Join our dedicated team at TEWV and make a real difference in the lives of people experiencing mental health crises in York and surrounding areas.
