Job summary
The NHS Veterans Mental Health and Wellbeing Service is recruiting a clinical specialist from a nursing or allied health professional background to carry out specialist assessments, deliver veteran-sensitive interventions and advice, and to support a complex caseload. The service, whose London hub is based at St Pancras Hospital, operates in a range of community settings to support consistent access to care and treatment. The post holder will work with a mixture of cases, some requiring at-home visits, some requiring liaison with other Trusts.
Op COURAGE is an NHS-led partnership alongside three Forces-friendly charities, Walking with the Wounded, Stoll and The Ripple Pond. We offer a proactive, mobile, wrap-around treatment service which bolsters existing NHS emergency care and crisis services operating on a 24/7 basis. It aims to offer immediate psychological, social and other stabilization options, to secure longer-term treatment for veterans, to reduce crisis admissions and shorten inpatient stays.
Main duties of the job
The role will involve swift triage of referrals into the service, liaison with referrers, engaging veterans, and then conducting in-depth assessments at the veterans' location, using a high level of expertise. The post holder will draw up and co-ordinate specialist veteran-specific risk assessments and care plans involving multiple others, including partner agency workers and peers. Liaison with wider NHS, statutory bodies, local authorities and the third sector is key to ensure the appropriate support is in place for veterans and their families.
About us
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
Our Five-Year Strategy:
- We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
- With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
- We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
Why NLFT?
- We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
- We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
- NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
- Excellent internal staff networ
In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post-holder will offer psychologically informed case management interventions, including with dual diagnosis and personality disorder. They will also play a key role in supporting veterans friends, family and carers.
Case management of complex clinical cases will focus on maximising service users recovery and any transition to civilian life and will aim to provide a co-ordinated wrap around service of care. Part of the role will be creating and sustaining good working links with military and charitable organisations in the sector, as well as other NHS/statutory organisations, and experience of working in partnership with existing veterans organisations is desirable.
The post holder will be expected to travel daily across the London region and work core hours 9 to 5pm, and in addition may be required to work flexibly outside these hours depending on service requirements.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post-holder will offer psychologically informed case management interventions, including with dual diagnosis and personality disorder. They will also play a key role in supporting veterans friends, family and carers.
Case management of complex clinical cases will focus on maximising service users recovery and any transition to civilian life and will aim to provide a co-ordinated wrap around service of care. Part of the role will be creating and sustaining good working links with military and charitable organisations in the sector, as well as other NHS/statutory organisations, and experience of working in partnership with existing veterans organisations is desirable.
The post holder will be expected to travel daily across the London region and work core hours 9 to 5pm, and in addition may be required to work flexibly outside these hours depending on service requirements.
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
- Current professional registration for nursing/social work/occupational therapy (e.g. 1st level NMC registration)
Essential
Essential
- Experience of highly skilled assessment and on-going care coordination/care planning for service users with complex needs, including trauma related mental health problems and substance misuse difficulties.
Essential
Essential
- Experience of assessing and managing a range of psychiatric difficulties as well as risk to self or to others whether chronic, acute or immediate (face-to-face).
Essential
Essential
- Experience and understanding of multi-disciplinary team working and of liaison and inter-agency working (working with both statutory and third sector organisations, including veteran-specific agencies).
Essential
Essential
- Working knowledge and application of Mental Health/Substance Misuse/Social Care legislation/policy and knowledge and experience of safeguarding adults/children
Essential
Essential
- Ability to engage and work with complex and difficult to engage populations.
Desirable
Desirable
- Experience serving in the UK armed forces or of working with ex-serving UK Armed Forces
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
- Current professional registration for nursing/social work/occupational therapy (e.g. 1st level NMC registration)
Essential
Essential
- Experience of highly skilled assessment and on-going care coordination/care planning for service users with complex needs, including trauma related mental health problems and substance misuse difficulties.
Essential
Essential
- Experience of assessing and managing a range of psychiatric difficulties as well as risk to self or to others whether chronic, acute or immediate (face-to-face).
Essential
Essential
- Experience and understanding of multi-disciplinary team working and of liaison and inter-agency working (working with both statutory and third sector organisations, including veteran-specific agencies).
Essential
Essential
- Working knowledge and application of Mental Health/Substance Misuse/Social Care legislation/policy and knowledge and experience of safeguarding adults/children
Essential
Essential
- Ability to engage and work with complex and difficult to engage populations.
Desirable
Desirable
- Experience serving in the UK armed forces or of working with ex-serving UK Armed Forces
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
