Senior Practitioner - Multi Agency Rapid Response Service (MARRS)

Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Bodmin; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is inviting applications for a Band 6 position in the CAMHS urgent care pathway across Cornwall, including Bodmin, Truro and Helston. The role provides short term, intensive mental health intervention for children and adolescents, with the aim of preventing hospital admission and supporting families.

You will work within a multi-disciplinary team, liaising with social care and other providers to deliver timely care across the county.

Qualifications

• Professional Qualification – Registered Nurse or other professional body such as Social Work/Occupational Therapy.
• Professional Registration - NMC /HCPC.
• Experience of working with children and adolescents with complex mental health needs in a child focussed multi-agency setting.
• Experience of working in multi-disciplinary and multi-agency setting.
• Teaching or Training Qualification.

Responsibilities

• To provide short term, intensive mental health intervention for children and adolescents with complex mental health needs.
• Working with young people and families as an alternative to hospital admission.
• To provide advice, consultation and liaison to other child & adolescent mental health providers, particularly for Children in Care and Youth Offending Team.
• To provide psychosocial risk assessment and risk management.
• To work in partnership with children’s Social Care to deliver urgent care across services for children and young people who experience mental health and social care crisis across Cornwall.
• 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.

Skills

Able to assess, plan, implement and

Communicate with children and families

Explain sensitive information clearly

Excellent teamwork and autonomy

Education

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

Professional Registration - NMC /HCPC

Experience with children/adolescents with complex MH needs in multi-agency setting

Experience in multi-disciplinary/multi-agency setting

Teaching or Training Qualification

Job description

Band 6

Main area Mental Health Grade Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours

• Full time
• Part time

37.5 hours per week (MARRS provide a 24hr service 7 days a week, with Day, Twilight and Night shift patterns.) Job ref 201-26-666-A

Site County wide/ West Cornwall TBC Town Bodmin Salary £39,959 - £48,117 Per Annum/Pro Rata Salary period Yearly Closing 01/10/2026 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 Care

• 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

We are a multiagency rapid response service (MARRS) that delivers urgent support for children and young people who experience mental health 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 with support from health and social care. We have 3 bases in Cornwall (Bodmin, Truro and Helston), to provide a county wide service we would require to discuss this at interview.

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 and supoort to complete a range of training including but not limited to: AMBIT, DBT, Solution focused, and trauma informed training.

Main duties of the job

• To provide short term, intensive mental health intervention for children and adolescents with complex mental health needs.
• Working with young people and families as an alternative to hospital admission.
• To provide advice, consultation and liaison to other child & adolescent mental health providers, particularly for Children in Care and Youth Offending Team.
• To provide psychosocial risk assessment and risk management.
• To work in partnership with children’s Social Care to deliver urgent care across services for children and young people who experience mental health and social care crisis across Cornwall.
• 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 532,000 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 and Relevant Experience

• Professional Qualification – Registered Nurse or other professional body such as Social Work/Occupational Therapy
• Professional Registration - NMC /HCPC
• Experience of working with children and adolescents with complex mental health needs in a child focussed multi-agency setting.
• Experience of working in multi-disciplinary and multi-agency setting
• Teaching or Training Qualification.

Skills and Aptitude

• Able to assess, plan, implement and evaluate treatment in young people.
• Can communicate and establish effective working relationships with children and young people and their families.
• To impart sensitive complex information when there may be barriers to understanding.
• Effective team player with the ability to initiate, prioritise and complete work autonomously.

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.

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.

The Health Jobs UK website has jobs from numerous employers, within health and care across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.

Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust provides acute medical, surgical and specialist services to a population of around 500,000 which can increase significantly during the busy holiday periods.