Consultant Practitioner - Community Mental Health
Job summary
Are you a Consultant Nurse Practitioner passionate about working with adults in a community mental health setting?
Do you want to be part of a motivated, supportive leadership team responsible for helping the team deliver best possible outcomes for people requiring mental health support?
Do you have the skills to develop our interventions within a high-quality assessment and brief intervention service?
If this sounds interesting, then the role of Consultant Practitioner could be for you!
Adult mental health services are going through an exciting period of transition as we welcome mental health and wellbeing practitioners into the service to better enable us to support people to access secondary services and provide brief psychological interventions.
We are an experienced team of mental health nurses and allied healthcare professionals, mental health and wellbeing practitioners, administrators and VCSE colleagues with potential for further expansion of psychological provision.
We are currently piloting a new way of working to support smoother transitions through services and provide crucial psychological interventions for those people who fall through the gap between services.
We are looking for a senior practitioner who can join clinical leads and operational management to foster a psychologically safe and supportive team environment and help us better integrate with primary care services across an evolving integrated care area model.
Main duties of the job
- Expert practice: establish values-based practice across the care pathway, service, organisation and system, working with individuals, families, carers, communities and others.
- Strategic and enabling leadership: provide values-based and strategic leadership across the care pathway, service and systems within changing and complex situations.
- Learning, developing, and innovation across the system: develop a learning culture to develop staff potential, add to and transform the workforce and help people to learn, develop and improve (in and from practice) to promote excellence.
- Research and innovation: develop a 'knowledge-rich and inquiry' culture across the service and system that contributes to research outputs and has a positive impact on development, quality, innovation, increasing capacity and capability and the system
- You will need to use your expert knowledge and skills to provide consultancy across that takes in all pillars, to share expertise across the community mental health service as well as positively impact the whole on the mental health care system.
- You will be expected to use your skills to engage both staff and system partners to best effect to maximise opportunities to improve practice, services, communities and populations as well as to add and sustain the capacity and capability of the workforce
About us
We're an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people's physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.
We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you'll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK.
Over 4,000 people make up the Trust. This includes doctors, nurses, therapists, plus admin and support staff.
We work in people's homes, in community clinics and bases. Some staff work from one of our 13 community hospitals. Our aspiration is to have great people, provide great care, be a great place to work and a great partner.
Approximately 568,000 people live her. A third of people who live in Cornwall are supported by acute hospital services in Devon. As a result, we also work closely with our partners in Devon. In the summer, and during other holidays lots of people choose to visit the area. This increase the numbers of people who use out services.
Date posted
16 January 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 8b
Salary
£62,215 to £72,293 a year Per annum/Pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
201-25-045
Job locations
Bodmin
Banham House Bodmin Hospital
Bodmin
PL31 2QT
Job description
Job responsibilities
To view a detailed job description and person specification including the main responsibilities of this role please see supporting documents.
Job responsibilities
To view a detailed job description and person specification including the main responsibilities of this role please see supporting documents.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Current professional registration - NMC, HCPC
- University qualification in autonomous practice/clinical skills (e.g. University Advanced Clinical Practice Masters/Advanced Clinical Skills PG Cert)
Desirable
- Professional Nurse Advocate Qualification
- Leadership qualification
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of working with adults with mental health problems in an Inpatient and Crisis Services setting at a senior level
- Research experience
Skills
Essential
- Commitment to patient advocacy, staff development and service improvement
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Qualifications
Essential
- Current professional registration - NMC, HCPC
- University qualification in autonomous practice/clinical skills (e.g. University Advanced Clinical Practice Masters/Advanced Clinical Skills PG Cert)
Desirable
- Professional Nurse Advocate Qualification
- Leadership qualification
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of working with adults with mental health problems in an Inpatient and Crisis Services setting at a senior level
- Research experience
Skills
Essential
- Commitment to patient advocacy, staff development and service improvement
- Evidence of continuing professional development
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Bodmin
Banham House Bodmin Hospital
Bodmin
PL31 2QT
Employer's website
https://www.cornwallft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer details
Employer name
Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Bodmin
Banham House Bodmin Hospital
Bodmin
PL31 2QT
Employer's website
https://www.cornwallft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
For questions about the job, contact:
Associate Director of Community Mental Health
Beth Ford
07818405172
Date posted
16 January 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 8b
Salary
£62,215 to £72,293 a year Per annum/Pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
201-25-045
Job locations
Bodmin
Banham House Bodmin Hospital
Bodmin
PL31 2QT
Supporting documents
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