Senior Mental Health Practitioner

Job overview

Are you passionate about ensuring that our ex-British Armed Forces (Veterans) – have excellent mental health care?

Are you driven and professionally skilled in engaging, assessing and helping to navigate Veterans that sometimes can be difficult-to-engage, complex and risky? Working alongside our Veterans and their families ensuring they receive timely and appropriate support, often supporting to navigate other systems and services.

Are you determined and resourceful to help support the service as part of the wider NHS OP Courage services, including our urgent and treatment pathway colleagues.

Are you a team player, initiative-taking and robust? This is an exciting opportunity to join OP Courage, bringing together all the three elements of NHS mental healthcare for our Veterans.

Together we can go further to ensuring that the NHS fulfils its commitment and picks up and responds to the specialist needs of Veterans and their families. You will work within the team, covering a designated geographical area.

Main duties of the job

The core purpose of this role is to provide a liaison, advice and support service for veterans accessing crisis and in-patient services; supporting the co-ordination of care of  service users from admission to the service and through to discharge.

The post holder will be highly skilled and competent in conducting clinical holistic and risk assessments (in accordance with the identified care pathway).

The post holder will provide a range of highly skilled interventions (including group work) as determined by the community mental health pathway (appropriate to professional expertise) and share those skills with other team members.

Whilst having access to good quality clinical supervision, the post holder will exercise a high level of professional and clinical autonomy.

The post holder will provide a high level of skill in supervision, education and skills sharing to other team members including learners

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For the main duties and responsibilities for this role please read the attached job description and person specification.  When completing your application please ensure your supporting statement reflects the criteria set out in these documents by showing how your experience and skills apply to this post.

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