Job overview

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

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. 

Main duties of the job

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.

Working for our organisation

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.