Senior Mental Health Practitioner OpCourage

To be a Mental Health Nurse or Mental Health Social Worker within the Op Courage service to veterans and “service leavers” with a six month discharge date from Military, within the North West of England.

As part of the OpCourage North collaborative, assist in triage/ screening referrals for the collaborative, alongside specifically NW clients.

The post consists of hybrid working between office, home base, online/ virtual appointments, face to face and community settings.

Responsibilities Include

• Participation in a Duty rota including liaising with referrers and other services, providing support to members of the Multi-Disciplinary Team in relation to risk management and safeguarding issues
• Case management of veterans, clinical interventions and signposting/ liaising with local services.

The service delivery of clinical interventions occurs within a range of venues (including MoD venues) across the North West or home setting where clients’ needs necessitate this.

Senior mental health practitioners would be expected to carry out initial face to face mental health, social care and risk assessments using the OpCourage standard assessment (including collecting outcome measures); case management of an assigned group of clients who require on-going monitoring of their mental health and risk management; emotional and practical support; and the delivery of evidence based

interventions supported by the psychological team. The evidence based intervention for the clients identified needs relating to their time in the military with a goal of accessing military attributable therapy.

We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.

Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We’re really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we’re a great place to work.

All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.

If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:

• Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
• Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
• Access to Continued Professional Development
• Involvement in improvement and research activities
• Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
• Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Helen Birbeck Job title: Recruiting Manager Email address: Sign in to view email