Are you passionate about ensuring that our ex-British Armed Forces (Veterans) have excellent mental health care? Are you driven and professionally skilled in engaging, assessing and helping to navigate Veterans 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 them to navigate other systems and services. Are you determined 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 a team player, initiative‑taking and robust? This is an exciting opportunity to join OP Courage, bringing together all three elements of NHS mental healthcare for our Veterans.
Responsibilities
- The core purpose of this role is to provide a liaison, advice and support service for veterans accessing crisis and in‑patient services; supporting the co‑ordination of care of service users from admission to the service and through to discharge.
- Conduct clinical holistic and risk assessments (in accordance with the identified care pathway).
- Provide a range of highly skilled interventions (including group work) as determined by the community mental health pathway, appropriate to professional expertise.
- Exercise a high level of professional and clinical autonomy, supported by good quality clinical supervision.
- Lead in supervision, education and skills sharing with other team members, including learners.
Qualifications & Experience
- Highly skilled and competent in conducting clinical holistic and risk assessments.
- Experience in delivering group work and other community mental health interventions.
- Strong educational and supervisory skills.
About Dorset HealthCare
We’re on a mission to empower people to make the most of their lives through our outstanding, joined‑up healthcare services. We’re a dynamic, forward‑looking Trust, running 12 community hospitals, specialist inpatient facilities and a wide range of integrated community and mental health services for a population of almost 800,000 people. We’re an inclusive workplace, where everyone is welcome, everyone can be authentic, and we are all encouraged to be the best version of ourselves.
Contact
For further details / informal visits contactStuart Lane, Business ManagerEmail: stuart.lane1@nhs.netTelephone: 07551‑684855
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