Senior Mental Health Practitioner

This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a large Provider Collaborative (OpCOURAGE) providing mental health & 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 & Walking with the Wounded. LYPFT deliver the integrated OP Courage pathway across West & South Yorkshire, supporting veterans who are experiencing a wide range of military experience related mental health needs. The post is within the Core team - A Multi-Disciplinary Team consisting of SMHP's, Psychological Therapists, Substance Misuse Nurse and Recovery Worker, Peer Support Coordinator & some Medic input. Op COURAGE Core Team offers a range of specialist interventions for members of the armed forces community. This includes: + Helping veterans to recognise common & complex mental health problems including psychological trauma. + Providing practical and psychological support including psychosocial interventions for mental health problems. + Liaising with charities and local organisations to support wider health & wellbeing, such as help with housing, relationships, finances & employment, + Identification & specialist support for alcohol & substance use. + Referring to other NHS services, where needed + Recognising that family may also need help & care & supporting access. + Evidence based psychological therapy, We need an experienced senior mental health practitioner (Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist), based within West/South Yorkshire. This may be the ideal post for you. The post holder will be highly skilled and competent in

• conducting clinical holistic assessments of need including risk and safety.
• developing collaborative therapeutic relationships with service users who may be difficult to engage.
• delivering a range of psychosocial interventions including - psychoeducation on the whole range of common mental health difficulties, anxiety management, graded exposure, emotional regulation and managing social situations.
• Working in a multi-disciplinary team which includes workers with veteran lived experience
• Using clinical supervision and consultation with psychological therapists to help formulate and support their work.
You will have excellent communication, organisational and clinical reasoning skills. This is a hybrid post, with some working from base and some working from home. This post requires extensive travel across the West/South Yorkshire locality with the flexibility to cover for colleagues where necessary. Our operating hours are 9am-5pm, Monday to Friday.

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., 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.