Community Practitioner

Job overview

OpCourage North - The Veterans Mental Health and Wellbeing Service is a provider collaborative delivering specialist mental health services to Veterans, reservists, and their families across the North of England.

The collaborative is made up of Cumbria, Northumberland Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust as the lead provider, working with NHS partners Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust, Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust and Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust and Charitable organisation partners Combat Stress and Walking With The Wounded.

The OpCourage service recognises the importance of personalisation of the care journey for veteran and supporting them to access the right care from the right services.

Op COURAGE offers a range of specialist support and treatment for members of the armed forces community, which includes:

• helping to recognise and treat early signs of mental health problems, as well as more advanced mental health conditions and psychological trauma
• providing support and treatment for co-occurring mental health and substance use
• liaising with charities and local organisations to support wider health and wellbeing, such as help with housing, relationships, finances and employment
• referring to other NHS services, where needed
• recognising that family may also need help and care and supporting them to access this.

Main duties of the job

We look forward to welcoming applications for a full time Band 6 Senior Mental Health Practitioner from either registered Mental Health Nurses,  Social Workers or Occupational Therapists  with at least two years post qualifying experience. We would consider part time working arrangements if there were 2 appointable candidates to fill the full time hours.

This is an opportunity to be a part of a very supportive team, where your contribution and development are highly valued. Successful applicants will work exclusively with individuals who have served with the UK Armed Forces, their families, and non-mobilised reservists.

You will be able to work autonomously and be willing and able to develop your skills and knowledge for this specialist role. You will be involved in completing holistic assessments and delivering evidence-based therapeutic interventions to people on our caseload. There is a clear flexible framework in relation to specific slots in your working week in order to complete assessment, triage, and clinical intervention time.

The service is committed to developing the skills of practitioners, so there will be ongoing opportunities to work within both assessment and intervention roles, whilst also having the opportunity to gain further therapeutic skills through training.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Candidates must have relevant registration with either NMC, HCPC or SWE and have 2 years post qualifying experience including sign off of appropriate preceptorship or competency framework.

Please note our office base within Monkwearmouth Hospital is temporary until a local permanent office base is obtained.

Please find attached job description for full details.

Advertising date : 2nd June 2026

Closing date : 16th June 2026

We welcome your application.