Multi-Agency Rapid Response Service Practitioner (Developmental)

Cornwall Partnership; Truro; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust in Cornwall is advertising Band 5 – Band 6 Developmental roles within CAMHS. This permanent, full-time post is 37.5 hours per week with shift work including possible nights, evenings and weekends.

Based across Bodmin, Truro or Helston, the post offers a salary between £32,073 and £48,117 per annum and opportunities for professional training such as AMBIT, DBT, and non-medical prescribing.

Qualifications

• Professional Qualification – Registered Nurse or other professional body such as Social Work/Occupational Therapy
• Experience of working in multi-disciplinary and multi-agency teams
• Experience of work in a variety of mental health settings
• Interested in addressing training needs identified by self and service
• Evidence of professional development plan
• Effective team player with the ability to initiate, prioritise and complete work
• Possess a Professional Development plan

Responsibilities

• Work with young people in crisis to prevent inpatient admission.
• Provide home treatment as alternative to hospital admission.
• Coordinate with CAMHS, Social Care and partner services.
• Support the team in delivering integrated, community-based care.

Skills

Child safeguarding

Child mental health

Children/young people experience

Child development

Education

Professional Qualification – Registered Nurse or other professional body such as Social Work/Occupational Therapy

Experience of working in multi-disciplinary and multi-agency teams

Experience of work in a variety of mental health settings

Interested in addressing training needs identified by self and service

Evidence of professional development plan

Effective team player with the ability to initiate, prioritise and complete work

Possess a Professional Development plan

Job description

Band 5 - Band 6 Developmental

Main area CAMHS Grade Band 5 - Band 6 Developmental Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Work is on a shift basis which may include long day, night, evening, and weekend working) Job ref 201-26-885

Site Cornwall - Base TBC Town Bodmin , Truro or Helston Salary £32,073 - £48,117 Per Annum Salary period Yearly Closing 08/10/2026 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

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.

Job overview

Childrens mental health services are changing, for the better. We have developed a multi-agency rapid response service (MARRS) that will deliver urgent care across services for children and young people who experience mental health and social care crisis across Cornwall 24/7 365 days a year. We aim to build an integrated pathway that offers support and treatment for families in a joined-up way. We have 3 bases in Cornwall (Bodmin, Truro and Helston).

We have been working with families and staff to develop a new service that puts the young person and their family at the centre of what we do.

We are an integrated, multi-disciplinary CAMHS team, who focus on ensuring children and young people, and their families, get the right help at the right time. Your expertise is essential in the new model of care to ensure adaptive mentalization based integrative treatment. You will be reaching out to those hard to engage young people and their families, working to prevent hospital admission and supporting young people and their families on their journey of recovery.

We are committed to enhancing this by offering you training opportunities to support our care delivery. You will be offered AMBIT, DBT, Solution focused, trauma informed training, and for our nursing staff we will also support you to complete your non-medical prescribing.

Main duties of the job

We work intensively with young people with acute mental health difficulties who are in crisis to prevent the need for inpatient admission where possible. As part of the Acute Care Pathway we work closely with the Southwest Provider Collaborative, our local CAMHS Inpatient Unit (Sowenna), Community CAMHS and in partnership with our children's Social Care colleagues.

The team offers short term intensive interventions to young people with a significant mental illness or who are emotionally dysregulated and displaying high risk behaviour relating to their mental health. The team also offers home treatment as an alternative to hospital admission - this can involve targeted, short term intervention.

The team currently offer urgent assessments in hospital, or in the community, and short-term intervention. We are proud to now offer intensive support at home, with those the young person care about around them, actively working with our partners to prevent children and young people being admitted into hospital.

The team will operate county wide and will be integrated with CAMHS, the wider child and family health services as well as Cornwall Council’s social work service for children and families.

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.

Just over 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

Education / Qualifications

• Professional Qualification – Registered Nurse or other professional body such as Social Work/Occupational Therapy
• Experience of working in multi-disciplinary and multi-agency teams.
• Experience of work in a variety of mental health settings.
• Interested in addressing training needs identified by self and service.
• Evidence of professional development plan.
• Effective team player with the ability to initiate, prioritise and complete work.
• Possess a Professional Development plan.

Knowledge and Abilities

• A working knowledge of child safeguarding.
• Knowledge of Child Mental Health settings
• Any relevant knowledge or experience of work with children or young people.
• Knowledge of child 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 programmesCoaching 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.

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