Consultant Practitioner – Community Mental Health

This Consultant Practitioner post sits within adult community mental health services at Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, which is reshaping its complex-needs services. The work centres on shaping a co-produced model of care for people with complex needs and leading the service’s development. The post carries a special interest in substance misuse and psychosis, combining clinical practice with leadership across the division. Fit depends on a master’s degree, non-medical prescribing and senior inpatient or crisis experience.

What the job involves

• Establish values-based practice across the care pathway, service, organisation and system
• Provide strategic and enabling leadership across pathways, services and wider systems
• Develop a learning culture that builds staff potential and improves practice
• Build a knowledge-rich, inquiry-led culture that contributes to research and innovation
• Provide expert consultancy across the community mental health service and wider system
• Engage staff and system partners to improve practice, services and workforce capability
• Support the co-production of a model of care for people with complex needs
• Lead the evolution of the service using existing pathways and new investment
• Work with the health and social care system to maintain high-quality care
• Take a clinical and leadership role within the community mental health division

What’s required

Qualifications

• University Advanced Clinical Practice qualification or ePortfolio registered with the Academy of Advancing Practice
• Master’s degree in a relevant subject
• Non-medical prescribing qualification

Registration & licences

• NMC or HCPC registration

Experience

• Significant senior experience working with adults with mental health problems in inpatient and crisis services
• Research experience

Skills & knowledge

• Commitment to patient advocacy, staff development and service improvement
• Evidence of continuing professional development

Nice to have

• Professional Nurse Advocate qualification
• Leadership qualification

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