[ref. l0307716] Bury - Senior Mental Health Practitioner
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Job overview
This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a large Provider Collaborative (OpCOURAGE) providing mental health and wellbeing care and support for veterans in the North of England. Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne & Wear NHS Trust are the Lead Provider.Other delivery partners are Pennine Healthcare NHS Trust, Tees, Esk & Wear Valley NHS Trust, Humber NHS Trust, Combat Stress and Walking with the Wounded.
LYPFT deliver the integrated OP Courage Enhanced pathway across the North of England, supporting veterans who are experiencing an acute period of mental health need. The post is within the Enhanced team - A Multi-Disciplinary Team consisting of SMHP’s, Psychological Therapists and Veteran Liaison Support Officers.
Op COURAGE offers a range of specialist interventions for members of the armed forces community. This includes:
- Helping veterans to recognise common and complex mental health problems including psychological trauma.
- Providing practical and psychological support including psychosocial interventions for mental health problems.
- Liaising with charities and local organisations to support wider health and wellbeing, such as help with housing, relationships, finances and employment,
- Identification and specialist support for alcohol and substance use.
- Referring to other NHS services, where needed, and
- Recognising that family may also need help and care and supporting them to access this.
- Evidence based psychological therapy
Main duties of the job
We need an experienced senior mental health practitioner (Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist), based within the North West area. You will be skilled in:
- conducting clinical holistic assessments of need including risk and safety.
- developing collaborative therapeutic relationships with service users who may be difficult to engage.
- delivering a range of psychosocial interventions including – psychoeducation on the whole range of common mental health difficulties, anxiety management, graded exposure, emotional regulation and managing social situations.
- Working in a multi-disciplinary team which includes workers with veteran lived experience
- Using clinical supervision and consultation with psychological therapists to help formulate and support their work.
This is a hybrid post, with some working from bases and some working from home.
This post requires extensive travel across the North West locality with the flexibility to cover for colleagues across the North of England where necessary.
Our operating hours are 8am-8pm, 7 days per week and includes weekend and Bank holiday duties.
Working for our organisation
The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country.As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development.
There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 - 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme, coaching, support and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more NHS Discount Offers.
We also have an incredible bank department, offering variety of roles in nursing, allied health professions, healthcare support worker and administration clerical. Permanent employees are automatically added to bank.
Applicants should be aware that any individual requiring a visa to work in the UK, the Trust provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles only (this does not include Healthcare Support Workers). This is an essential requirement, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you do not meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We recruit people based on their values and qualifications (where required) and believe that their lived experience is an advantage, this means that together we are as diverse as the communities we care for. Simply put, when we employ caring people who act with integrity and have the right skills, we can give those with mental health challenges, learning disabilities and neurodiversity high-quality care and support to live fulfilling lives, and make our staff feel purposeful, happy and valued.
All our information is available in accessible formats. Please contact the Recruitment team [email protected]
Attached to this advert is our candidates guide to values-based recruitment and supporting guidance on how to make a successful application.
If you require a reasonable adjustment, please contact the Recruitment Team or see the attached candidate guide to reasonable adjustments.
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading.
So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the Candidate Guide to Values Based Recruitment. This document provides you with information to help you apply.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Professional qualification BSc/Dip/RMN/OT/Social Work
Skills
Essential criteria- To be able to travel to locations within allocated region of the service
Experience
Essential criteria- Extensive experience of working with people with complex and enduring mental health needs
- Experience of working as a care coordinator within the community
Knowledge
Essential criteria- Demonstrates a high level of understanding of the difficulties experienced by veterans presenting with mental health and/or physical health needs and how this impacts on function. Demonstrates an awareness of military culture
Where candidates are successful at interview, flexible working arrangement requests will be taken into consideration and may be accommodated where the needs of the service allow.
Fixed Term Contracts for existing NHS Employees – temporary contracts for employees of LYPFT, or colleagues joining from another NHS Trust, will be offered on a secondment basis wherever possible. In the event this is not possible, an FTC would be issued and this would require a break in service of two weeks.
The purpose of a temporary is role could be for maternity cover, temporary funding or some other reason. At the end of which the need for the temporary work will cease. Temporary roles can stop, be extended and/or made permanent at any point during the period of work.Should the role become permanent then the post-holder will be informed of the process to be followed to convert the position to a permanent one.
Please note that from 1st July 2018, all new employees are required to subscribe to the DBS Update Service, DBS checks for volunteers remain free of charge.
Patient Safety is a priority at LYPFT with a focus on system-based improvement and creating opportunities for learning. We will ensure compassionate engagement with all those involved in an incident and all incidents are met with a proportionate response.LYPFT is committed to upholding its’ statutory responsibilities in relation to safeguarding adults and children. Please refer to job description for further information.
LYPFT is a member of the Disability Confident scheme and is committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process.
As part of the Trust's commitment to its Gold Standard Armed Forces Covenant status, members of the Armed Forces Community are entitled to a guaranteed interview subject to meeting the role criteria.
We welcome applicants with lived experience of providing unpaid care and/or support to a family member or friend with a disability, health condition, frailty, mental health problem, addiction or other health needs.
Please note that the Trust reserves the right to close the vacancy before the closing date if enough applications are received. It is in the candidate’s best interest to apply as soon as possible. In submitting an application form, you authorise Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the ESR IAT process should you be appointed to the post.
In applying for a role please ensure that you only declare qualifications that are relevant to the role itself. We reserve the right to check all declared qualifications on an application form, whether they are directly relevant to the role or not.
If you have not received any communication from us within four weeks you are asked to assume that your application has been unsuccessful. If you should have any queries regarding progress with your application form please contact us.
Please note: The Trust does not offer reimbursement of interview expenses.