Senior Mental Health Practitioner - Leeds, United Kingdom - Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

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Leeds, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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We are currently recruiting for 3 enthusiastic and highly motivated mental health nurses, occupational therapists or social workers to join our NHS England commissioned regional team based across the North of England.

We would strongly encourage occupational therapists to apply.

This exciting opportunity, within an innovative and experienced MDT and with our partner provider Combat Stress, is keen to recruit forward thinking clinicians to join the reigning clinical team of the year.

The successful applicants will join a service supporting veterans and service leavers with mental health needs related to their military experiences.

Veterans' Mental Health and Wellbeing Services (OpCOURAGE) will be changing over the coming year due to the start of a new contract.

The pathway for veterans is developing with the current component parts will becoming more integrated. The intention is that this will improve the quality of, and access to services for veterans and their families.

You will have opportunity to be part of those changes and support the journey to an integrated veteran's mental health service.

This role is community based and as such requires a high level of autonomous practice and sound clinical reasoning skills.

Clinical appointments will be delivered in person and via a range of remote technologies, and as such a car driver is essential given the geographical footprint of the service.

You will be required to provide to work as a lead professional for an allocated caseload of veterans, utilising the CPA framework and principles for the delivery of care; maintaining a focus on recovery and adopting a person-centred approach.

You will deliver stabilisation interventions to veterans on your caseload in addition to on-going assessment of mental state and risk management, promoting the active involvement of veterans and carers in all aspects of their care delivery.

You will have excellent communication, organisational and clinical reasoning skills, as well as the ability to travel across the geographical region of the service.

We are a high quality, high performing NHS foundation trust. We are the main provider of specialist mental health and learning disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York as well as some highly specialised services across the country.
We employ around 3,000 staff and every year we have contact with over 25,000 service users. Our vision is to provide outstanding mental health and learning disability services as an employer of choice.

Our ambition is to support our service users and carers, our staff and the communities we serve to live healthy and fulfilling lives.

We need people like you to help us achieve our goals; to live our lives free from stigma and discrimination; and to improve the lives of people with a learning disability and mental ill health.

We perform well against local and national targets and in our most recent CQC inspection, 85% of our services were rated good or outstanding.

As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development.

The core purpose of this role is to co-ordinate the care of a defined caseload of veterans from admission to the service and through to discharge.

The post holder will demonstrate 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

The post holder will be highly skilled and competent in conducting clinical holistic and risk assessments

The post holder will provide a range of highly skilled interventions (including group work) as determined by the service (appropriate to professional expertise) and share those skills with other team members

Whilst having access to good quality clinical supervision, the post holder will exercise a high level of professional and clinical autonomy