Job Description

The NHS Veterans Mental Health and Wellbeing Service is recruiting a clinical specialist from a nursing or allied health professional background to carry out specialist assessments, deliver veteran-sensitive interventions and advice, and to support a complex caseload. The service, whose London hub is based at St Pancras Hospital, operates in a range of community settings to support consistent access to care and treatment. The post holder will work with a mixture of cases, some requiring at-home visits, some requiring liaison with other Trusts.



Op COURAGE is an NHS-led partnership alongside three Forces-friendly charities, Walking with the Wounded, Stoll and The Ripple Pond. We offer a proactive, mobile, wrap-around treatment service which bolsters existing NHS emergency care and crisis services operating on a 24/7 basis. It aims to offer immediate psychological, social and other stabilization options, to secure longer-term treatment for veterans, to reduce crisis admissions and shorten inpatient stays.



The role will involve swift triage of referrals into the service, liaison with referrers, engaging veterans, and then conducting in-depth assessments at the veterans' location, using a high level of expertise. The post holder will draw up and co-ordinate specialist veteran-specific risk assessments and care plans involving multiple others, including partner agency workers and peers. Liaison with wider NHS, statutory bodies, local authorities and the third sector is key to ensure the appropriate support is in place for veterans and their families.



North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

Our Five-Year Strategy:

We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.



With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all



We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.



We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.



Why NLFT?



We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.



We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.



NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme



Excellent internal staff network

The post holder will be aligned with our values:

We Are Kind



We Are Respectful



We Work Together



We Keep Things Simple



We Empower



We Are Proudly Diverse



In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington.



The post-holder will offer psychologically informed case management interventions, including with dual diagnosis and personality disorder. They will also play a key role in supporting veterans' friends, family and carers.



Case management of complex clinical cases will focus on maximising service users' recovery and any transition to civilian life and will aim to provide a co-ordinated wrap around service of care. Part of the role will be creating and sustaining good working links with military and charitable organisations in the sector, as well as other NHS/statutory organisations, and experience of working in partnership with existing veterans' organisations is desirable.



The post holder will be expected to travel daily across the London region and work core hours 9 to 5pm, and in addition may be required to work flexibly outside these hours depending on service requirements.