Band 6 Mental Healthcare Coordinator

Job description

Job responsibilities

Duties and Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Providing skilled and comprehensive biopsychosocial assessments, clinical risk assessment skills and use an understanding of the occupational risks and needs of individuals to support safe and effective management of patients overseas.

• Utilising problem solving and autonomous decision making skills to undertake the safe and effective care coordination of overseas patients.

• Contributing to the provision of relevant teaching/training as required to meet the needs of the relevant overseas Chain of Command (CoC) and medical units.

• Promoting the safety and welfare of patients, visitors and staff by observing the regulations of local and national laws, regulations and policies and disseminating relevant information to the team.

For full list of duties please see job description and person specification attached.

The selection at sift stage will be based on your application. At interview, you will be tested against the following NHS Skills:

• NHS Health & Wellbeing-HWB2-Assessment & Care Planning
• NHS Health & Wellbeing-HWB6-Assessment & Treatment Planning
• NHS Health & Wellbeing-HWB7-Interventions & Treatment
• NHS General-NHS G6-People Management

Please ensure the required skills, qualifications and memberships are demonstrated in your application.

Additional information

To be eligible to be considered for this role, qualifications and memberships detailed must be held in full, prior to submitting your application.

The sift will be completed within 5 working days of the vacancy closing date and interviews will be held on a date to be confirmed.

There will be no reimbursement for any travel expenses for the interview.

There is no requirement to deploy as this is met by our uniformed personnel, but you will form the continuity of care required by our patients when based at home.

The Ministry of Defence is committed to providing a safe and healthy working environment for its staff which includes educating them on the benefits of not smoking, protecting them from the harmful effects of second-hand smoke and supporting those who want to give up smoking. Under the Smoke-Free Working Environment policy, Smoking and the use of all tobacco products (including combustible and chewing tobacco products) will not be permitted anywhere in the Defence working environment by 31st December 2022. The policy is Whole Force and includes all Defence personnel, contractors, visitors and other non-MOD personnel. All applicants seeking, considering, or accepting employment with the Ministry of Defence should be aware of this policy and that it is already in place at a number of Defence Establishments.

Please be advised that the Department is conducting a review of all pay related allowances which could impact on those allowances that the post currently being advertised attracts.

If found successful for this position, you will be required to provide evidence of your immunity to Hepatitis B. Failure to provide evidence of your immunity may result in the offer of employment being withdrawn.

If you need additional help or reasonable adjustments for the recruitment process, please contact dbscivperssgdmsresourcingteam@mod.gov.uk.

As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came in to effect on 1 January 2021, the Ministry of Defence will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points based system, where a role has been deemed to be business critical. The role currently being advertised has not been assessed as business critical and is therefore NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points based system. Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check.

We encourage all our employees and prospective ones to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 subject to any exemptions that may apply. Please see the attached further information document for full details.

All employees joining Ministry of Defence who are new to the Civil Service will be subject to a 6-month probation period (unless otherwise advised) effective from the employment start date.

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

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Person Specification

Registrations and Memberships

Essential

• Registered with one the following regulatory bodies: NMC, HCPC

Qualifications

Essential

• Health and Care Professionals Council (HCPC) registration as an occupational therapist or practitioner psychologist or Social Work England Registered Social Worker with Post-graduate training.
• or
• Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Registered Mental Health Nurse with post registration experience.
• All above with:
• Knowledge and experience of undertaking and recording detailed mental health assessments.
• Experience of working in adult community mental health.
• Broad knowledge and experience of working with patients with a broad range of diagnosis and understanding of the biopsychosocial model.
• Experience of advanced assessment, risk assessment and safety planning.
• Ability to liaise intra and inter-agency to optimise outcome and safe management of the patient

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Ministry of Defence (Defence Medical Services)

Address

DMS Whittington

Lichfield

Staffordshire

WS149PY

Employer's website

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-defence (Opens in a new tab)