Job Description

Veterans 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? Working alongside our veterans and their families ensuring they receive timely and appropriate support, often supporting to navigate other systems and services.



Are you determined, can-do and resourceful to help support the service as part of the wider NHS OP Courage services, including our urgent and treatment pathway colleagues.



Are you team-playing, initiative-taking, persuasive and robust? This is an exciting opportunity to join OP Courage, bringing together all the three elements of NHS mental healthcare for our veterans



You will be joining a team of highly committed people from the Midlands OpCourage 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.



Engaging, assessing and helping to navigate patients that sometimes can be difficult-to-engage, complex and risky. Working with veterans and their families struggling with their mental health across the West Midlands region.



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



Attending assessment clinics regionally 3/4 times a month to meet with and assess veterans and their families, whom have been referred into the service.



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. You will work within the team, covering a designated geographical area ( West Midlands) 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 desirable.



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.