Consultant Practitioner - Intensive Assertive Treatment

NHS; Bodmin; On-site; GBP 64,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider in Cornwall is seeking a Consultant Practitioner for Intensive Assertive Treatment. This unique opportunity is tailored for a senior clinician with advanced practice skills aiming to positively impact individuals with mental health needs. The role involves providing expert clinical leadership, fostering service innovation, and ensuring high-quality care. Candidates must possess a master's degree, relevant qualifications, and significant experience in mental health settings. The salary ranges from £64,455 to £74,896 annually (Pro rata).

Qualifications

• NMC or HCPC Registration is required.
• Professional Nurse Advocate Qualification necessary.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert clinical leadership and service innovation.
• Ensure high quality, patient‑centred care.
• Champion proactive and creative engagement initiatives.

Skills

Commitment to patient advocacy

Evidence of continuing professional development

Education

Master's degree in relevant subject

University Advanced Clinical Practice qualification

Job description

Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Closing date: 04 January 2026

Consultant Practitioner – Intensive Assertive Treatment

We are seeking an experienced highly motivated consultant practitioner to lead and develop our Intensive Assertive Treatment model. This is an unique opportunity for a senior clinician with advanced practice skills to make a meaningful impact on the lives of people with complex and enduring mental health needs who may struggle to engage with traditional services.

You will provide expert clinical leadership, drive service innovation and ensure high quality, patient‑centred care to individuals who require intensive, flexible and community‑based support.

You will provide advanced clinical assessment, formulation and evidence‑based interventions. Work collaboratively with the MDT, lead on complex case management and offer specialist consultation to staff across mental health, social care, primary care and voluntary services.

You will champion the principles of proactive, persistent and creative engagement initiatives. You will be dynamic, forward‑thinking enabling the team to embody creativity and innovation in their approaches to mental health care.

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 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.

Qualifications

• NMC or HCPC Registration
• Educated to master's degree level in relevant subject
• University Advanced Clinical Practice qualification or evidence of ePortfolio registered with the Academy of Advancing Practice
• Professional Nurse Advocate Qualification

Experience

• Significant experience of working with adults with mental health problems in an Inpatient and Crisis Services setting at a senior level
• Research experience

Skills and Aptitude

• 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.

Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

£64,455 to £74,896 a year (Pro rata)