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.