Senior MH Practitioner (Op Courage Integrated Veterans Service)

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Job summary

Senior Mental Health Practitioner (Op Courage Integrated Veterans Service)

We are excited to be able to offer this opportunity for a Band 6 Mental Health Nurse/Occupational Therapist/Social Worker within the new Op Courage Integrated Veterans Mental Health Service.

NSFT is pleased to be part of a collaboration with other local providers to provide this new service for armed forces veterans across the East of England. The lead provider is EPUT (Essex Partnership University Trust) and we will also work in collaboration with specialist veteran-specific organisations such as Walking With the Wounded, the Warrior Programme, Outside the Wire and Mental Health Matters as well as the other clinicians within the multi-disciplinary team. The new service aims to amalgamate some existing clinical services for veterans, such as TILS (Transition Intervention and Liaison Service), CTS (Complex Treatment Service) and HIS (High Intensity Service) into one simplified and comprehensive service.

Main duties of the job

We are particularly interested to hear from applicants who demonstrate experience in the welfare and mental health treatment of veterans, or who have an understanding of their particular needs and experiences. These often include psychological trauma, social disadvantage and obstacles to their engagement with mental health services. Therefore, our staff require a fundamental commitment to addressing these needs and overcoming such obstacles to provide the best possible care to this particular client group.

The service will operate across the East of England so some availability to travel will be necessary. It is also a 7 day service so some commitment to working weekends on an a rota basis will be required.

In return, we can offer the opportunity to be part of a new and exciting service, specialist supervision, and close links to existing national NHS services for Veterans.

We welcome any informal discussions from potential applicants.

About us

This is an exciting opportunity to join Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust within the Op Courage Service. NSFT achieved Veteran Aware accreditation in 2021 and has been at the forefront of the development of mental health services for armed forces veterans.

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established nursing networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you'll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We're an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!

Some of the benefits you can expect:

• NHS pension
• a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
• career progression
• starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
• staff physio service
• NHS discounts and many more

Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.

Please visit our Facebook and Twitter page @NSFTjobs

Job description
Job responsibilities

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!

Some of the benefits you can expect:

• NHS pension
• a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
• career progression
• starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
• staff physio service
• NHS discounts and many more

Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.

Please visit our Facebook and Twitter page @NSFTjobs

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Nursing degree or equivalent, Dip OT, Clinical Psychology or Equivalent.
• Mentorship qualification or ENB 998.
• Ongoing professional development working towards degree level.
• Higher degree or post graduate certificate in area of clinical / therapeutic practice.

Desirable

• Good to great management course, or equivalent.

Experience

Essential

• Able to demonstrate an appropriate level of knowledge of mental health practice from previous experience.
• Demonstrate effective risk assessment and risk management experience.
• Experience in the delivery of clinical interventions.
• Experience in working in team delivering person centred treatment packages

Desirable

• Experience in delivering group based interventions.
• Experience in supporting service development.

Skills

Essential

• Excellent communication skills.
• Competent assessment Skills.
• Competent and effective treatment skills.
• Care planning skills.

Desirable

• PMA Training.
• Medicine Management.

Knowledge

Essential

• Able to demonstrate an appropriate level of knowledge of mental health practice from previous experience.
• Experience in the delivery of clinical interventions.
• Experience in working in team delivering person centred treatment packages

Desirable

• Specific experience of involvement in the mental health care of Veterans and/or armed forces personnel and of working alongside the partner agencies involved in such care.

Person Specification
Qualifications

Essential

• Nursing degree or equivalent, Dip OT, Clinical Psychology or Equivalent.
• Mentorship qualification or ENB 998.
• Ongoing professional development working towards degree level.
• Higher degree or post graduate certificate in area of clinical / therapeutic practice.

Desirable

• Good to great management course, or equivalent.

Experience

Essential

• Able to demonstrate an appropriate level of knowledge of mental health practice from previous experience.
• Demonstrate effective risk assessment and risk management experience.
• Experience in the delivery of clinical interventions.
• Experience in working in team delivering person centred treatment packages

Desirable

• Experience in delivering group based interventions.
• Experience in supporting service development.

Skills

Essential

• Excellent communication skills.
• Competent assessment Skills.
• Competent and effective treatment skills.
• Care planning skills.

Desirable

• PMA Training.
• Medicine Management.

Knowledge

Essential

• Able to demonstrate an appropriate level of knowledge of mental health practice from previous experience.
• Experience in the delivery of clinical interventions.
• Experience in working in team delivering person centred treatment packages

Desirable

• Specific experience of involvement in the mental health care of Veterans and/or armed forces personnel and of working alongside the partner agencies involved in such care.

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.
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Additional information
Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the .

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. .
UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

Employer details

Employer name

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust
Address

Hellesdon Hospital/Remote Working (Service covers the East of England)

Norwich/Remote

NR6 5BE

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