OpCourage Senior Practitioner - Band 6

OpCourage Senior Practitioner – Band 6

The closing date is 16 March 2026

Are you passionate about ensuring that our ex-British Armed Forces (Veterans) – Navy, Army and RAF servicewomen and men have excellent mental health care?

Are you driven and professionally skilled in engaging, assessing and helping to navigate patients 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 to navigate other systems and services.

Are you determined, can‑do 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 team‑playing, initiative‑taking, persuasive and robust? This is an exciting opportunity to join OP Courage, bringing together all the three elements of NHS mental healthcare for our veterans.

You will be joining a team of highly committed people from the Midlands OpCourage urgent and treatment pathway who are all dedicated to the cause and working to provide the kind of service that you would want for your own loved ones all with the right spirit of fun, camaraderie and trust in each other.

Main duties of the job

Engaging, assessing and helping to navigate patients that sometimes can be difficult‑to‑engage, complex and risky. Working with veterans and their families struggling with their mental health across the West Midlands region.

Liaising with other NHS services and third sector agencies to ensure collaborative working across the patch.

Attending assessment clinics regionally 3/4 times a month to meet with and assess veterans and their families, whom have been referred into the service.

Together we can go further to ensuring that the NHS fulfils its commitment and picks up and responds to the particular needs of veterans and their families. You will work within the team, covering a designated geographical area (West Midlands) from a satellite base in Stratford or Rugby.

For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.

About us

At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.

We put \’people at our heart\’; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.

These include:

• generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
• excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
• salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
• discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
• wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
• staff networks and support groups

We\’re always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.

Job responsibilities

First‑hand experience or knowledge of veterans mental health or working within the military community is desirable.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Relevant Professional Qualification i.e. RMN, DipCOT
• Current unrestricted registration with HCPC/NMC
• Expertise within a discipline underpinned by theory
• Professional clinical knowledge acquired through degree/ diploma
• Evidence of post‑qualification professional development ENB998 or equivalent
• Experience of supervising qualified staff
• Ability to work autonomously skilled in the assessment of complex patient material including crisis intervention and risk management
• Experience of working as a care coordinator for those with complex needs (working knowledge of MHA/MCA)

Knowledge and skills

• Effective organisational and delegation skills
• Ability to demonstrate and apply understanding of policies and procedures
• Ability to demonstrate and apply understanding of Equal Opportunities
• Ability to demonstrate and apply understanding confidentiality
• Ability to demonstrate and apply understanding safety issues
• Ability to demonstrate and apply problem solving skills to a variety of situations
• Knowledge/Understanding of Armed Forces and the mental health needs of veterans and their families.

Experience

• Experience in a Community Mental health care setting
• Experience of undertaking formulation, risk assessment and positive risk management
• Experience of staff supervision
• Evidence of continuing professional development

Other

• Must have full driving licence and access to a motor vehicle for business use

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.

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust