Senior Veteran Liaison Practitioner

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Swineshead; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional NHS mental health service is seeking an enthusiastic qualified practitioner to support veterans through the Afghan Relocation Assistance Programme. The role involves assessing mental health needs, developing care plans, and managing clinical caseloads across the East Midlands. With a focus on high standards of care, the ideal candidate will work flexibly and collaboratively to support service users and their families. Employee benefits include competitive leave, access to therapies, and a positive workplace culture.

Benefits

Early access to Psychological Therapies

Competitive annual leave allowance

Car leasing scheme

NHS pension scheme

Free eye tests

Money saving options

Discounts on major retailers

Qualifications

• Must be qualified as a Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker, or Occupational Therapist.
• Experience in mental health assessment and care planning.
• Ability to work flexibly across various pathways.

Responsibilities

• Provide high standard of clinical care for veterans and families.
• Develop and implement care plans based on assessments.
• Manage case-load and service delivery effectively.

Skills

Mental Health Nursing

Clinical Assessment

Care Planning

Communication Skills

Education

Qualified Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker, or Occupational Therapist

Job description

Job Overview

This is a specialist role, working primarily as the Afghan Relocation Assistance Programme (ARAP) Practitioner. Supporting those that are eligible for the service having relocated to the UK after supporting the British Armed Forces. As this role continues to develop there will be an expectation that you will work alongside and support the other pathways within Op Courage where possible. The role of the team is to support veterans with their mental wellbeing as well as to navigate the NHS so that the individual can access the service that will best meet their needs. We do this via a military-sensitive and holistic assessment. Practitioners in the team will develop care plans based on this assessment and will liaise with other organisations and military charities in the development and implementation of the care plan. This is a region-wide post covering the East Midlands, including Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Rutland and Northamptonshire.

To provide a high standard of clinical care ensuring safe and effective assessment, treatment and comprehensive discharge planning using highly developed clinical reasoning skills and appropriate assessment tools. To work flexibly across a 5-day-a-week service across the East Midlands region. To ensure the clinical caseload and clinical practice is of the highest standard of clinical care. To manage case‑load and service delivery in accordance with and in order to contribute towards the attainment of Service/Trust/commissioning productivity requirements. To ensure up to date care plans, risk assessments and reviews are in place. Work alongside mainstream NHS services to ensure safe care and practice. Work with individuals to assess their mental health, recognise mental illness and identify their related needs and circumstances; and enable them to understand, manage and where appropriate change their behaviour. Plan, implement, review and improve interventions to meet people's identified needs and manage their inherent risk. To assess carers' and families needs and develop, implement and review programmes of support for cares and families. Protect people from abuse, neglect and harm. To provide management supervision to junior staff members. To work flexibly across Op Courage supporting the service to manage demand across multiple pathways where appropriate.

We are looking for an enthusiastic qualified Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker, or Occupational Therapist to join Op Courage. Op Courage is an NHS mental health specialist service designed to help serving personnel due to leave the military, reservists, armed forces veterans and their families.

Working for the Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do. You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well‑led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this! We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff. Whether you're taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that's friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life. Visit beinlincolnshire.com to find out more.

Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for complete details regarding this post. When completing your application, please demonstrate how you meet the role criteria. We can also offer you many staff benefits to help support you which include:

Benefits

• Early access to Psychological Therapies and Physiotherapy
• Competitive annual leave allowance
• Car leasing scheme
• NHS pension scheme
• Free eye tests
• Money saving options through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Discounts on major high street retailers and restaurants