Senior Practitioner - Multi Agency Rapid Response Service (MARRS)

Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Bodmin; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust in Cornwall is seeking current NHS employees to join their multi-agency rapid response service for children's mental health. The role focuses on providing intensive support to young people and their families in crisis, with an emphasis on preventing hospital admissions. Training opportunities in various therapeutic approaches will be available, and the service operates county-wide across Cornwall. Applications are only open to current employees of specific NHS organizations.

Benefits

Training opportunities

Supportive work environment

Qualifications

• Current NHS employee within Cornwall or the Isles of Scilly required.
• Experience in mental health intervention preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide short term, intensive mental health intervention for children and adolescents.
• Work with families as an alternative to hospital admission.
• Consult and advise other mental health providers.

Job description

About the role

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 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., This job is currently only open to people who already work for the NHS in Cornwall or the Isles of Scilly.We are committed to supporting our dedicated staff, so only current employees of the following organisations can apply.

Eligibility: Current NHS Employees Only

• Cornwall Foundation Trust
• Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust
• Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Integrated Care Board

Note: If you do not currently work for one of these NHS organisations, your application will not be considered at this time.

Key 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.

About the Trust

We are an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. 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.