Consultant Practitioner - Community Mental Health

Cornwall Partnership; Bodmin; On-site; GBP 67,000 - 77,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

CPD time

Development fund

Leadership programmes

Cycle to work

Salary sacrifice car scheme

Job summary

Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Consultant Practitioner in Community Mental Health to lead clinical and leadership activities across the service. You will shape care delivery, support pathways, and drive a co-produced model with partners to meet complex needs.

You will work with an established leadership team to ensure safe, high-quality care, balancing clinical expertise with system-wide improvement and workforce development.

Qualifications

• NMC or HCPC registration is essential.
• Master’s level education in a relevant subject is required.
• Advanced clinical practice qualification or equivalent recognition.

Responsibilities

• Establish values-based practice across care pathways and systems.
• Provide strategic leadership across the care pathway and service.
• Foster learning, development and innovation across the system.
• Develop a knowledge-rich culture contributing to research and improvement.
• Engage staff and system partners to improve practice and services.
• Lead clinical and leadership efforts within community mental health.

Skills

Commitment to patient advocacy, staff

Staff development

Service improvement

Continuing professional development

Education

Master’s degree level in relevant subject

Advanced Clinical Practice qualification

NMC/HCPC Registration

Job description

Consultant Practitioner - Community Mental Health

Band 8b

Main area Consultant Practitioner - Community Mental Health Grade Band 8b Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 201-26-944

Site Bodmin Town Bodmin Salary £66,582 - £77,368 Per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 29/10/2026 23:59

Thank you for your interest in joining us at Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.

Strategic Themes

• 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.

Job overview

Adult community mental health services are going through an exciting period of transition as we develop and enhance our services for people with complex mental health problems. Formerly known as Assertive Outreach we are modernising our service offering to create an intensive and assertive treatment model within our community mental health services.

We are looking for an consultant practitioner with a special interest in substance misuse and psychosis to offer clinical expertise in the development of this service. You will support the creation of a co-produced model of care that enables those with complex needs to engage with services. You will have a lead role in enabling the service to evolve using existing pathways and new investments. You will work with the health and social care system to ensure that we are offering the highest quality of care.

You will join a highly motivated and experienced leadership team and will be a take a key clinical and leadership role within the community mental health division. You will have an active role working alongside an established operational and clinical leadership team to ensure that we are delivering safe and effective care to those with complex mental health needs. You will take a clinical leadership role and be proactive in the delivery of care.

This is a newly developed role and is an exciting opportunity for you to take the lead in shaping services and care delivery.

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 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.

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

Education / Qualifications and Relevant Experience

• NMC or HCPC Registration
• University Advanced Clinical Practice qualification or evidence of ePortfolio registered with the Academy of Advancing Practice
• Educated to master’s degree level in relevant subject
• Significant experience of working with adults with mental health problems in an Inpatient and Crisis Services setting at a senior level
• Research experience
• Professional Nurse Advocate Qualification

Skills and Aptitude/Knowledge and abilities

• 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

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
• Salary sacrifice car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• The Trust reimburses all application costs for staff eligible to apply for EU settlement status.

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

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Beth Ford Job title Associate Director of Community Mental Health Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 07818405172 Additional information

Sarah-Lou Skitt - Head of Nursing & Allied Health Professionals. sarah.skitt@nhs,net