Consultant in CAMHS Multi Agency Rapid Response Team

Consultant in CAMHS - (Multi Agency Rapid Response Team) NHS Medical & Dental:
Consultant

Main area CAMHS Grade NHS Medical & Dental:
Consultant Contract Permanent: 10 PA/Week Hours

• Full time
• Part time
• Job share
• Flexible working

Site Sowenna Town Bodmin Salary £113,565 - £150,569 PA Pro Rata Salary period Yearly Closing 30/10/2026 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 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.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust as a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist within our innovative Multi-Agency Rapid Response Service (MARRS). Based at the Sowenna Unit, Bodmin, this post offers the chance to lead and shape a highly regarded crisis service supporting children and young people experiencing significant mental health difficulties across Cornwall.

MARRS is a countywide, multi-disciplinary and multi-agency service operating 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, providing rapid assessment, intervention and intensive support to young people in mental health crisis. Working across community, acute hospital and social care settings, the service collaborates closely with paediatrics, police, children's social care, education and inpatient services to ensure timely, compassionate and effective care for young people and their families.

This is a role that combines clinical excellence with genuine work-life balance. You will join a supportive consultant peer network, benefit from dedicated SPA time, research and teaching opportunities.

The Trust is committed to innovation, professional development and consultant wellbeing, making this an outstanding opportunity for both newly qualified and experienced consultant.

We offer an attractive recruitment incentive package for the successful candidate, subject to eligibility and agreement.

The post holder will provide senior medical leadership to the specialist countywide crisis service supporting children and young people experiencing acute mental health difficulties.

Key responsibilities include:

Providing psychiatric assessment, diagnosis, formulation and treatment for children and young people presenting with complex and acute mental health difficulties.

Delivering clinical leadership within the MARRS multidisciplinary team.

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