OpCourage Urgent Pathway Senior Practitioner - Band 6
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Job summary
Veterans Urgent Pathway Senior Practitioner - Band 6
Permanent, full time role
Are you passionate about ensuring that our ex-British Armed Forces (Veterans) - 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 sometimes can be difficult-to-engage, complex and risky?
Are you determined, can-do and resourceful to help support the urgent care pathway team as part of the wider NHS OP Courage services , supporting veterans and their families at times of mental health crisis?
Are you team-playing, initiative-taking, persuasive and robust? This is an exciting opportunity to join the recently rebranded OP Courage, bringing together all the three elements of NHS mental healthcare for our veterans,
This service was previously called the Veteran High Intensity Service ( now urgent pathway)
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Main duties of the job
Engaging, assessing and helping to navigate patients that sometimes can be difficult-to-engage, complex and risky. Working with veterans and their families in times of crisis across the West Midlands region.
Liaising with other NHS services and third sector agencies to ensure collaborative working across the patch.
You will be joining a team of highly committed people from the Midlands OpCourage non-urgent and treatment pathway who are all dedicated to the cause and working to provide the kind of service that you would want for your own loved ones all with the right spirit of fun, camaraderie and trust in each other.
Together we can go further to ensuring that the NHS fulfils its commitment and picks up and responds to the particular needs of veterans and their families in times of crisis. You will work within the team, covering a designated geographical area (Herefordshire, Worcestershire @ CWPT ) from a satellite base in Rugby.
For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.
About us
At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.
We put 'people at our heart'; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.
These include:
- 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
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
First-hand experience or knowledge of veterans mental health or working within the military community is essential.
For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.
Job description
Job responsibilities
First-hand experience or knowledge of veterans mental health or working within the military community is essential.
For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Relevant Professional Qualification i.e. RMN, DipCOT
- Current unrestricted registration with HCPC/NMC
- Expertise within a discipline underpinned by theory
- Professional clinical knowledge acquired through degree/ diploma
- Evidence of post-qualification professional development ENB998 or equivalent
- Experience of supervising qualified staff
- Ability to work autonomously skilled in the assessment of complex patient material including crisis intervention and risk management
- Experience of working as a care coordinator for those with complex needs (working knowledge of MHA/MCA)
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Excellent written communication skills
- Excellent verbal communication skills
- Effective organisational and delegation skills
- Ability to demonstrate and apply understanding of policies and procedures
- Ability to demonstrate and apply understanding of Equal Opportunities
- Ability to demonstrate and apply understanding of confidentiality
- Ability to demonstrate and apply understanding safety issues
- Ability to demonstrate and apply problem solving skills to a variety of situations
- Knowledge/Understanding of Armed Forces and the mental health needs of veterans and their families.
- Audit/evaluation skills
Experience
Essential
- Experience in a Community Mental health care setting
- Experience of undertaking formulation, risk assessment and positive risk management
- Experience of staff supervision
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Other
Essential
- Must have full driving licence and access to a motor vehicle for business use
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Relevant Professional Qualification i.e. RMN, DipCOT
- Current unrestricted registration with HCPC/NMC
- Expertise within a discipline underpinned by theory
- Professional clinical knowledge acquired through degree/ diploma
- Evidence of post-qualification professional development ENB998 or equivalent
- Experience of supervising qualified staff
- Ability to work autonomously skilled in the assessment of complex patient material including crisis intervention and risk management
- Experience of working as a care coordinator for those with complex needs (working knowledge of MHA/MCA)
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Excellent written communication skills
- Excellent verbal communication skills
- Effective organisational and delegation skills
- Ability to demonstrate and apply understanding of policies and procedures
- Ability to demonstrate and apply understanding of Equal Opportunities
- Ability to demonstrate and apply understanding of confidentiality
- Ability to demonstrate and apply understanding safety issues
- Ability to demonstrate and apply problem solving skills to a variety of situations
- Knowledge/Understanding of Armed Forces and the mental health needs of veterans and their families.
- Audit/evaluation skills
Experience
Essential
- Experience in a Community Mental health care setting
- Experience of undertaking formulation, risk assessment and positive risk management
- Experience of staff supervision
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Other
Essential
- Must have full driving licence and access to a motor vehicle for business use
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such 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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
Additional information
UK Registration
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Employer details
Employer name
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust
Address
The Railings
Rugby
CV21 2AW
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