Consultant Practitioner - Community Mental Health Band 8b Main area Community Mental Health Grade Band 8b Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 201-25-045 Site Bodmin Town Bodmin Salary £62,215 - £72,293 Per annum/Pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 27/01/2025 23:59
Thank you for your interest in joining us at Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.
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Strategic Themes
Great Care
* Care based on what matters to people.
* Care provided at home or close to home.
* Improvement through learning, research and innovation.
* Prevention and alternatives to hospital.
Great Organisation
* Buildings that support health and wellbeing.
* Technology enabled care.
* Care teams are supported by responsive corporate services.
* Safe, efficient, effective and productive.
Great People
* A place people love to work and feel valued.
* Living our values with staff (all voices count).
* Attract, grow and develop talent.
* Leaders with compassion, who continuously learn and listen.
Great Partner
* Encourage and enable effective partnerships.
* Joined-up community services.
* Work with others to maximise workforce opportunities.
* Reduce our impact on the environment.
At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites. Unless exempt, we encourage and support staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19.
Job overview
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.
Working for our organisation
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 here. 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 increases the numbers of people who use our services.
Detailed job description and main 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 criteria
* 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 criteria
* Professional Nurse Advocate Qualification
* Leadership qualification
Experience Essential criteria
* 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 criteria
* Commitment to patient advocacy, staff development and service improvement
* Evidence of continuing professional development
At Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust we are proud to prioritise the development of our people. To support this, the following opportunities are available:
* Career conversations and individual development plans for succession planning and talent management
* Protected CPD time for registered staff
* Access to a dedicated central development fund supporting CPD for all staff
* Leadership and Management development programmes
* Coaching and mentoring opportunities
* A full clinical induction programme for operational skills
* Access to a care certificate programme for our band 1-4 clinical staff
* A bespoke and robust preceptorship programme to support newly qualified staff
* Individual professional development programmes
Being part of a successful NHS Foundation Trust brings a portfolio of rewards and benefits for our staff. These include:
* Suite of health and wellbeing initiatives to support our colleagues' physical and mental health
* Free access to individual HARP portfolios to support revalidation for nursing staff
* Free DBS checks where required
* Discounts available from retailers, UK hotels and main attractions
* NHS Pension Scheme
* Salary sacrifice car scheme
* Cycle to work scheme
* The Trust reimburses all application costs for staff eligible to apply for EU settlement status.
The Trust reserves the right to close this advert once a sufficient number of applications have been submitted. It is encouraged that you complete the application at your earliest convenience to avoid disappointment.
If you are successful at the shortlisting stage of the recruitment process you will be contacted via TRAC.jobs email regarding interview details.
Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust welcomes and values individuals with lived experience of mental or physical ill health joining our workforce. We aspire to have a culture that develops, promotes and supports lived experience roles - throughout the organisation.
If you are successful, you agree to Occupational Health accessing your health records from your current or previous employer to check the status of your inoculations and screening tests. Appointments are subject to full three-year satisfactory references therefore please ensure you include correct contact details for your nominated referees including email addresses.
Any general recruitment queries, please contact our recruitment team on 01208 834644
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