Overview
Veterans Senior Practitioner - Band 6. Permanent, full time role. Are you passionate about ensuring that our ex-British Armed Forces (Navy, Army and RAF) servicewomen and men have excellent mental health care? Are you driven and professionally skilled in engaging, assessing and helping to navigate patients that can be difficult-to-engage, complex and risky? Working alongside our veterans and their families to ensure they receive timely and appropriate support, often helping to navigate other systems and services. Are you determined, can-do 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 team-playing, initiative-taking, persuasive and robust? This is an exciting opportunity to join OP Courage, bringing together all the three elements of NHS mental healthcare for our veterans.
Responsibilities
* Engaging, assessing and helping to navigate patients that can be difficult-to-engage, complex and risky, with veterans and their families across the West Midlands region.
* Liaising with other NHS services and third sector agencies to ensure collaborative working across the patch.
* Attending assessment clinics regionally 3/4 times a month to meet with and assess veterans and their families referred into the service.
* Working within the team, covering a designated geographical area (West Midlands) from a satellite base in Rugby.
* Collaborating with the Midlands OpCourage urgent and treatment pathway colleagues as part of the wider service.
* Being part of a team dedicated to providing a service you would want for your own loved ones, with a spirit of fun, camaraderie and trust.
Location and Team
West Midlands region; satellite base in Rugby. Part of the Midlands OpCourage urgent and treatment pathway team.
Qualifications and Experience
* First-hand experience or knowledge of veteran mental health or working within the military community is desirable.
Benefits
* Generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us.
* Excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more.
* Salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more.
* Discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes.
* Wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more.
* Staff networks and support groups.
Additional Information
We’re always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.
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