Job summary
Veterans High Intensity 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 develop the Midlands Pathfinder High-Intensity Service HIS as part of the wider NHS OP Courage servicesto support 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 bigger-picture developments of OP Courage -NHS mental healthcare of our veterans, through the Transition Intervention Liaison Service TILS and Complex Treatment Services CTS now joining together with High Intensity Service HIS.
Please note Trust interviews are currently taking place through Microsoft Teams, this can be downloaded either through the App Store or Google Play for use on your phone/tablet.
Main duties of the job
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.
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.
Liaising with other NHS services and third sector agencies to ensure collaborative working across the patch.
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About us
You will be joining a team of highly committed people from the Midlands TILS and CTS who are and 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 & Leicestershire) from a satellite base in Rugby.
Job description
Job responsibilities
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.
First-hand experience or knowledge of veterans mental health or working within the military community is essential.
Subject to Parliamentary approval, from 1st April 2022 all NHS workers in England who have face to face contact with patients must be fully vaccinated against Covid-19. Only those with specified medical exemptions will be excluded from this requirement. Please consider this mandatory requirement when applying for this position.
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust encourage and support vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19.
Job description
Job responsibilities
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.
First-hand experience or knowledge of veterans mental health or working within the military community is essential.
Subject to Parliamentary approval, from 1st April 2022 all NHS workers in England who have face to face contact with patients must be fully vaccinated against Covid-19. Only those with specified medical exemptions will be excluded from this requirement. Please consider this mandatory requirement when applying for this position.
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust encourage and support vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19.
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
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
