Senior Mental Health Practitioner

Job summary

We are looking to for enthusiastic qualified Mental Health Nurses, Social Workers, or Occupational Therapists to join Op Courage. Op Courage is a NHS mental health specialist service designed to help serving personnel due to leave the military, reservists, armed forces veteran's and their families.

Anyone can be affected by mental ill health, but armed forces veteran's may have seen and experienced things that few others - thankfully - will. That can create a special set of challenges which working with military charities helps to overcome and that it what is at the heart of Op Courage - ensuring that the NHS is a National Hero Service. Over the last 5 years the National Health Service has expanded mental health services as part of the NHS Long Term Plan.

The role of the team is to support veteran's with their mental wellbeing as well as to navigate the NHS so that the individual can access the service that will best meet their needs. We do this via a military sensitive and holistic assessment. Practitioners in the team will develop care plans based on this assessment and will liaise with other organisations and military charities in the development and implementation of the care plan.

This is a region wide post covering the East Midlands, including Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Rutland and Northamptonshire. Please note two posts are available, post one is 37.5 hours per week, post two is 30 hours per week.

Main duties of the job

• To provide a high standard of clinical care ensuring safe and effective assessment, treatment and comprehensive discharge planning using highly developed clinical reasoning skills and appropriate assessment tools.
• To work flexibly across a 5-day-a-week service across the East Midlands region.
• To ensure the clinical caseload and clinical practice is of the highest standard of clinical care.
• To manage case-load and service delivery in accordance with and in order to contribute towards the attainment of Service/Trust/commissioning productivity requirements.
• To ensure up to date care plans, risk assessments and reviews are in place.
• Work alongside mainstream NHS services to ensure safe care and practice.
• Work with individuals to assess their mental health, recognise mental illness and identify their related needs and circumstances; and enable them to understand, manage and where appropriate change their behaviour.
• Plan, implement, review and improve interventions to meet people's identified needs and manage their inherent risk.
• To assess carers' and families needs and develop, implement and review programmes of support for cares and families.
• Protect people from abuse, neglect and harm.
• Enable individuals to develop independent living skills and live in the community.

About us

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!

We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.

This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.