Senior Mental Health Practitioner

Go back Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Senior Mental Health Practitioner

The closing date is 20 May 2025

This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a large Provider Collaborative (OpCOURAGE) providing mental health and 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 and Walking with the Wounded.LYPFT deliver the integrated OP Courage Enhanced pathway across the North of England, supporting veterans who are experiencing an acute period of mental health need. The post is within the Enhanced team - A Multi-Disciplinary Team consisting of SMHP's, Psychological Therapists and Veteran Liaison Support Officers.Op COURAGE offers a range of specialist interventions for members of the armed forces community. This includes:

• Helping veterans to recognise common and 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 and wellbeing, such as help with housing, relationships, finances and employment,
• Identification and specialist support for alcohol and substance use.
• Referring to other NHS services, where needed, and
• Recognising that family may also need help and care and supporting them to access this.
• Evidence based psychological therapy

Main duties of the job

We need an experienced senior mental health practitioner (Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist), based within the North West area. You will be skilled 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 bases and some working from home.

This post requires extensive travel across the North West locality with theflexibility to cover for colleagues across the North of England where necessary.

Our operating hours are 8am-8pm, 7 days per week and includes weekend and Bank holiday duties.

About us

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 any individual requiring a visa to work in the UK, the Trust provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles only (this does not include Healthcare Support Workers). This is an essential requirement, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you do not meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa.

Job responsibilities

We recruit people based on their values and qualifications (where required) and believe that their lived experience is an advantage, this means that together we are as diverse as the communities we care for. Simply put, when we employ caring people who act with integrity and have the right skills, we can give those with mental health challenges, learning disabilities and neurodiversity high-quality care and support to live fulfilling lives, and make our staff feel purposeful, happy and valued.

All our information is available in accessible formats. Please contact the Recruitment team

Attached to this advert is our candidates guide to values-based recruitment and supporting guidance on how to make a successful application.

If you require a reasonable adjustment, please contact the Recruitment Team or see the attached candidate guide to reasonable adjustments.

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading.

So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Guide to Values Based Recruitment. This document provides you with information to help you apply.

Person Specification Qualifications Skills

• To be able to travel to locations within allocated region of the service

Experience

• Extensive experience of working with people with complex and enduring mental health needs
• Experience of working as a care coordinator within the community

Knowledge

• Demonstrates a high level of understanding of the difficulties experienced by veterans presenting with mental health and/or physical health needs and how this impacts on function. Demonstrates an awareness of military culture

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.

Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust