Job Description
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) is one of the largest healthcare systems in the United Kingdom, employing approximately 40,000 staff across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical professions and roles. We deliver acute hospital, primary, community and mental health services to a population of over 1.15 million people, and to a wider population of 2.2 million when regional and national services are included.
The role:
The Crisis Service will provide a comprehensive multi-agency team approach of care, rapidly responding to people in acute psychiatric distress, until the crisis has been resolved and the service user is linked to on going care. This will be delivered on the basis of least restrictive alternative and minimum disruption to the lives of service users, and offer a credible alternative to hospitalisation, whenever possible. This will take due note of the supports available and the needs of carers involved in the