NHS England – Specialist Practitioner Op Courage (South-West Region) in Plymouth

We are looking for a Specialist Practitioner to join OpCourage South West, covering the Plymouth, Cornwall and Devon area.

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 can be difficult-to-engage, complex and risky? Working alongside our Veterans and their families ensures they receive timely and appropriate support, often helping 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 the three elements of NHS mental healthcare for our Veterans. Together we can go further to ensure that the NHS fulfils its commitment and responds to the specialist needs of Veterans and their families. You will work within the team, covering a designated geographical area.

Main duties of the job

The core purpose of this role is to provide liaison, advice, and support services for veterans, supporting the coordination of care from referral to the service through to discharge. You will work in a hybrid way, using a mix of online platforms, telephone, and face-to-face contacts as required. The team meets at regular intervals, and full support will be provided to develop the role alongside colleagues.

Working for our organisation

We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust): a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care. We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.

Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.

AWP is committed to support and create a positive research and evidence-based environment and culture, which can have a beneficial impact on everyone who works for the organisation and the care we provide to those who use our services.

At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.