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Job overview

This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a large Provider Collaborative (OpCOURAGE) providing mental health and wellbeing care and support for veterans in the North of England.  Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne & Wear NHS Trust are the Lead Provider.  Other delivery partners are Pennine Healthcare NHS Trust, Tees, Esk & Wear Valley NHS Trust, Humber NHS Trust, Combat Stress and Walking with the Wounded.
Op COURAGE offers a range of specialist support and treatment for members of the armed forces community. This includes:
•    helping to recognise and treat early signs of mental health problems, as well as more advanced mental health conditions and psychological trauma,
•    providing support and treatment for co-occurring mental health and substance use,
•    liaising with charities and local organisations to support wider health and wellbeing, such as help with housing, relationships, finances and employment,
•    referring to other NHS services, where needed, and
•    recognising that family may also need help and care and supporting them to access this.

Main duties of the job

We need an experienced senior mental health practitioner (Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist) to work in our North West of England Team, based at Arundel House in Bury with access to alternative bases across the North of England . This may be the ideal post for you. 

Op COURAGE offers a range of support and treatment, including:

•    triage, assessment, stabilisation interventions, social and peer support and psychological therapy.
•    supporting with intensive emergency care and treatment for veterans in a crisis
•    helping Veterans to access and engage with other NHS mental health services

You will be required provide triage and assessment to veterans with mental health difficulties, as well as providing stabilisation interventions within case management.

You will have excellent communication, organisational and clinical reasoning skills. You will support assessments, psychological formulation, risk management and interventions for veterans, working with the MDT to support them to deliver effective care for veterans experiencing mental health difficulties.

This is a hybrid post, with some working from base and some working from home.

This post requires extensive travel across the North West with the flexibility to cover other areas in the North of England where necessary. 

Our operating hours are 8am-8pm, 7 days per week and you will be required to undertake shifts across those operational hours.

Working for our organisation

The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country. As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development.
There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 - 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme, coaching, support and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more NHS Discount Offers.
We also have an incredible bank department, offering variety of roles in nursing, allied health professions, healthcare support worker and administration clerical. Permanent employees are automatically added to bank. 

Applicants should be aware that for any individual who requires a visa to work in the UK, the Trust provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles only. This is an essential requirement of the role, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you are unable to meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa. 

 

 

 

 

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Applications are welcomed from candidates who wish to apply for a position on the basis of a smarter (Hybrid) or flexible working arrangement – please contact the Recruitment Team if you have any queries regarding this in terms of your initial application.

Where candidates are successful at interview, flexible working arrangement requests will be taken into consideration and may be accommodated where the needs of the service allow.

Please note that from 1^st July 2018, all new employees are required to subscribe to the DBS Update Service, DBS checks for volunteers remain free of charge.

LYPFT is committed to upholding its’ statutory responsibilities in relation to safeguarding adults and children.  Please refer to job description for further information.

Patient Safety is a priority at LYPFT with a  focus on system-based improvement and creating opportunities for learning. We will ensure compassionate engagement with all those involved in an incident and all incidents are met with a proportionate response. 

LYPFT is a member of the Disability Confident scheme and is committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process.

As part of the Trust's commitment to its Gold Standard Armed Forces Covenant status, members of the Armed Forces Community are entitled to a guaranteed interview subject to meeting the role criteria. 

We welcome applicants with lived experience of providing unpaid care and/or support to a family member or friend with a disability, health condition, frailty, mental health problem, addiction or other health needs. 

Please note that the Trust reserves the right to close the vacancy before the closing date if a sufficient number of applications are received. It is in the candidates best interest to apply as soon as possible.

In view of Home Office Immigration Regulations all applicants must state their current immigration status, including expiry dates.

In submitting an application form, you authorise Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the ESR IAT process should you be appointed to the post.

 

In submitting an application for a role please ensure that you only declare qualifications that are relevant to the role itself. We reserve the right to check all declared qualifications on an application form, whether they are directly relevant to the role or not. 

If you have not received any further communication from us within four weeks you are asked to assume that your application has been unsuccessful. If you should have any queries regarding progress with your application form please contact us.

Please note: The Trust does not offer reimbursement of interview expenses.