Consultant Practitioner - Community Mental Health

Main area Consultant Practitioner
- Community Mental Health Grade Band 8b Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job  

Site Bodmin Town Bodmin Salary £66,582 - £77,368 Per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 29/10/2026 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.

Adult community mental health services are going through an exciting period of transition as we develop and enhance our services for people with complex mental health problems. Formerly known as Assertive Outreach we are modernising our service offering to create an intensive and assertive treatment model within our community mental health services.

We are looking for an consultant practitioner with a special interest in substance misuse and psychosis to offer clinical expertise in the development of this service. You will support the creation of a co-produced model of care that enables those with complex needs to engage with services. You will have a lead role in enabling the service to evolve using existing pathways and new investments.

You will work with the health and social care system to ensure that we are offering the highest quality of care.

You will join a highly motivated and experienced leadership team and will be a take a key clinical and leadership role within the community mental health division. You will have an active role working alongside an established operational and clinical leadership team to ensure that we are delivering safe and effective care to those with complex mental health needs. You will take a clinical leadership role and be proactive in the delivery of care.

This is a newly developed role and is an exciting opportunity for you to take the lead in shaping services and care delivery.

• Expert practice: establish values-based practice across the care pathway, service, organisation and system, working with individuals, families, carers, communities and others.
• Strategic and enabling leadership: provide values-based and strategic leadership across the care pathway, service and systems within changing and complex situations.
• Learning, developing, and innovation across the system: develop a learning culture to develop staff potential, add to and transform the workforce and help people to…