Band 5 Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner OpCourage Veterans Service

Job summary

OP Courage, The Veterans Mental Health and Well-being Service is an NHS mental health specialist service designed to help serving personnel due to leave the military, reservists, armed forces veterans and their families.

The Midlands Veterans Op courage is a partnership of eight specialist organisations that provide an integrated service across the whole Midlands region. The Birmingham Hub covers the west-midlands regional geographic area and works closely with Veterans to provide a military culturally sensitive service, while ensuring care delivery meets and addresses the issues of complex mental health needs, spirituality, equality diversity and rights in accordance with good practice and legislation. The service is expected to travel across the designated West Midlands geographical patch to ensure ease of access for our Veterans.

Main duties of the job

This is an exciting opportunity for a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner to develop their career beyond primary care, in a specialist service. The role is an opportunity to work with clients, with complex presentations, for extended periods, adapting existing skills to meet clients' needs in a genuinely supportive multi-disciplinary team that emphasises flexible client centred working.

The successful candidate will be provided with appropriate clinical and management supervision, to maintain their BABCP accreditation, and access to continued professional development training to maintain and develop their clinical skills.

The main roles will include:

- Face to face, video and telephone work with clients with complex mental health difficulties as part of a team of professionals

- Work within practice teams including liaison with GPs, Community Mental Health Team, Third sector agencies and service users and carers.

- Networking with the wider health and social care system.

- To work autonomously within the team and possess excellent organisational and time management skills, in order to cope with the demands of the service.

- To have undertaken the "Post Graduate Certificate in Primary Care" course and be qualified as a PWP.

- The post holder will demonstrate respect and value service users' and their carers.

About us

Welcome to Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. Our 4000 clinical and support staff help us to improve mental health wellbeing and meet the needs of the 70,000 people we serve each year. We provide a range of mental healthcare services across Birmingham and Solihull, as well as specialised services nationally. We also offer medical, nursing and psychology training and are proud of our international reputation for both research and innovation.

Our population is culturally diverse, characterised in places by high levels of deprivation which create an increasing demand for our services and a necessity for us to make sure everyone can access the help they need. We are a team of compassionate, inclusive and committed people working together to provide excellent care to support our community. If you are looking for a place to belong, where you can make a real difference to people's lives, join our team where our warm welcome is waiting for you.