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Specialist Veterans Mental Health Practitioner | Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 23 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £43,742 - £50,056 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 22 June 2024 |
| Location: | Portsmouth, PO1 4JT |
| Company: | Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6337529/371-MHS410 |
Summary
Are you an enthusiastic and motivated Mental Health Practitioner looking for an opportunity to hone your clinical skills within a specialist service? If so, our flagship specialist veterans service is keen to meet you.
Op Courage is the NHS Veterans Mental Health and Wellbeing Service. Our service covers the central area of Southern England. The successful candidate for this post will be based in either Hampshire/Berkshire. As part of a multi-disciplinary team, carrying out assessment, care planning, onward referral and offering psycho education for veterans with mental health issues, including Post traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), depression, anxiety disorders, substance misuse and anger issues. You will be fully supported, with training where needed.
A passion for supporting our ex Armed Forces community (veterans) is essential.
Your self-care and wellbeing is important to us. We pride ourselves on offering excellent clinical and peer support within the team.
The post holder will:
· Support the triage/duty team to oversee new referrals into the service.
· Provide a holistic assessment incorporating risk assessment/management and care planning.
· Liaise with other services/organisations as required to ensure veterans receive the care they need in a timely manner.
· Hold a caseload, manage risk and liaise with CMHT’s and Crisis services as required
· Attend regular multi-disciplinary meetings to help facilitate the smooth running of the service and build relationships and shared learning between staff members across the wider team.
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire.
We value diversity and are proud to be a Stonewall Top 100 Employer.We work hard to create an inclusive environment where you’ll be supported by friendly and professional colleagues to flourish.
Our values at Berkshire Healthcare:
• Caring for and about you is our top priority
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services
• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions
We welcome people who share these values to come and work for us.
Benefits of working for us include:
• Flexible working options to support work-life balance.
• 27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Excellent learning and career development opportunities
• ‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme
• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
• Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities and armed forces community to support equality
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave.
• Free parking across Trust sites
The “must haves” for this role:
• RMN or equivalent professional Qualification/ Qualified Social worker/Occupational Therapist
• Broad experience, gained over a minimum of 2 years with mental health needs in a range of clinical settings.
• Evidence and experience of working with adults presenting with complex mental health difficulties.
• Enthusiasm for working with the Ex armed force community.
Our OpCourage Veterans Mental Health and Wellbeing Service covers the area of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, and Hampshire including the Isle of Wight.
You will be joining a multi-disciplinary team. The service operational administrative base is in Erlegh House at the University of Reading, Berkshire. The team come together once monthly for a business meeting, and on other specified occasions as necessary.
For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted. For further application tips – see the help with your application document attached once you click apply.
If you’re someone who shares our passion for excellence and care, you belong at Berkshire Healthcare!
We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please don’t hesitate to call: Maria Warburton on 0118 904 7222 or email: maria.warburton@berkshire.nhs.uk who’ll be delighted to help.
We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics. Reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled applicants where required.
This advert closes on Sunday 16 Jun 2024
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