Senior Practitioner - Multi Agency Rapid Response Service (MARRS)

NHS; Bodmin; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Cornwall is seeking a Senior Practitioner in their Multi Agency Rapid Response Service to deliver urgent mental health care for children. Responsibilities include providing intensive interventions, working with families to prevent hospital admissions, and conducting assessments. Candidates should have a professional qualification in nursing or a related field, with experience in multi-agency settings. The role provides training opportunities and a supportive work environment.

Benefits

Training opportunities

Support for non-medical prescribing

Qualifications

• Experience of working with children and adolescents with complex mental health needs.
• Experience in multi-disciplinary and multi-agency settings.

Responsibilities

• Provide short-term, intensive mental health interventions for children.
• Work with families as an alternative to hospital admissions.
• Conduct psychosocial risk assessments and risk management.

Skills

Assessment and planning

Effective communication

Team collaboration

Autonomous work completion

Education

Professional Qualification - Registered Nurse or equivalent

Professional Registration - NMC/HCPC

Teaching or Training Qualification

Job description

Senior Practitioner - Multi Agency Rapid Response Service (MARRS)

Go back Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 17 December 2025

We are a multiagency 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 (Roche, Truro and Helston).

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 mentalisation 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

• 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.

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.

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.

Job 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.

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

£38,682 to £46,580 a yearPer Annum/Pro Rata