Band 7 Senior Mental Health Practitioner

At Defence Healthcare Regional Group (DHRG) we are inclusive, dedicated organisation working to provide outstanding care to our entitled personnel. Are you a passionate CBT Therapist looking to make a real difference to the lives of serving members of the Armed Forces? We are looking for a clinician who is dedicated to delivering high-quality, evidence based interventions to join our multi-disciplinary community mental health team. Whether you come from a traditional core profession or have built your career through the KSA route, if you are a BABCP-accredited practitioner we want to hear from you. The vacant post is part time working 22.5 hours per week. Benefits

• Access to learning and development tailored to your role
• A working culture which encourages inclusion and diversity
• NHS Pension
• Free Parking
• Professional Registration fees Re-imbursed
Please be advised that the Department is conducting a review of all pay related allowances which could impact on those allowances that the post currently being advertised attracts., The Senior Mental Health Practitioner will work within a multi-disciplinary team (MDT) setting to provide a specialised/occupational mental health service for all Service and entitled personnel with the Department of Community Mental Health (DCMH) and network as required. The post holder will have extensive experience of delivering psychological therapy in a stepped care-service. The post holder will require robust clinical assessment skills and an understanding of an occupational role and needs of individual's presenting to the service. Work with service personnel with complex common mental health disorder related problems for which cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is demonstrated to be clinically effective, individually, in groups and via face to face and digital platforms while undertaking a programme of training for this role. To directly provide highly specialist psychological assessment and interventions to individuals and groups. Clinically supervise other members of the MDT. To be responsible for ensuring clinical outcome date is routinely entered and appropriately collated, and also lead in service evaluation, outcome measurement, audit and research projects to benefit service users.

Our success depends on our people, our Whole Force, regular and reservist military, civil servants and contractors, all working as one, working together seamlessly to deliver for us. Our civil servants are a central part of this Whole Force, developing strategy, making policy, supporting ministerial decision-making and Parliamentary processes. In fact, with over 2,000 different roles working across 650 sites around the world, now really is an excellent time to join one of the largest, most exciting departments in government. The Ministry of Defence is committed to attracting and retaining people from across the full range of backgrounds and enabling flexible ways of working as the norm. We offer maternity, adoption or shared parental leave of up to 26weeks full pay followed by 13 weeks of statutory pay and a further 13 weeks unpaid, and paternity leave of 2 weeks full pay. In return, you can expect a department that helps you learn and develop that recognises your expertise and contribution, both as an individual and part of a team. If you`ve ever wanted to do more, see more, go further or be better, we have roles in more professions and vocations than ever before. Let's see where your future will take you, together.