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OpCourage Urgent Pathway Senior Practitioner - Band 6

Job details
Posting date: 24 April 2024
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: £35,392 - £42,618 per annum
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 24 May 2024
Location: Rugby, CV21 2AW
Company: Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 6257944/444-6120535A-CG

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Summary

A Vacancy at Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust.


Veterans Urgent Pathway 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 support the urgent care pathway team as part of the wider NHS OP Courage services,supporting 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 recently rebranded OP Courage, bringing together all the three elements of NHS mental healthcare for our veterans,

This service was previously called the Veteran High Intensity Service ( now urgent pathway)

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 across the West Midlands region.

Liaising with other NHS services and third sector agencies to ensure collaborative working across the patch.

You will be joining a team of highly committed people from the Midlands OpCourage non-urgent and treatment pathway who are 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 ) from a satellite base in Rugby.

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.

At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.

We put ‘people at our heart’; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.

These include:
• generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
• excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
• salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
• discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
• wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
• staff networks and support groups

We’re always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.

First-hand experience or knowledge of veteran’s mental health or working within the military community is essential.

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.




This advert closes on Wednesday 15 May 2024

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