Community Mental Health Support Worker- Carrick CMHT

Community Mental Health Support Worker
- Carrick CMHT Band 3

Main area Community Mental Health Support Worker Grade Band 3 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday - 9am - 5pm) Job  

Site Carrick ICMHT Town Truro Salary £25,760 - £27,476 Per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 31/08/2026 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.

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Great Care

• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

The position will be for the successful applicant to work within the Carrick iCMHT based in Truro and covering the Carrick district including surrounding areas, St Agnes and Falmouth. The successful applicant will be expected to work in the Community with individuals with Severe and Enduring Mental Health Conditions.

You will be part of a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to the effective provision of Mental Health Services to an identified caseload of service users.

You will provide a range of services including practical and emotional support to individual service users as indicated by the individual care plans provided by their lead health care professionals.

This is a community-based role that requires frequent travel to various locations throughout the county including areas that may not be accessible by public transportation. Driving is essential

• Foster and maintain good working relations with the integrated Community Mental Health Teams and other services.
• Work within the CMHT across the Mid Cornwall Locality
• Establish and maintain effect contact with service users, their relatives and carers in order to ensure good communication.
• Give information and assistance to service users and their carers so that they are aware of their rights, entitlements from the team and wider health and social care community.
• Use of appropriate community resources appropriate to the needs of the service user.
• Practice in a way that actively minimizes dependency and promotes recovery.
• Work with service users and their carers to access identified services.
• Monitor mental health and be aware of fluctuations in mental health through observations and report changes to the team practitioners so that service users are directed to appropriate services and risk is managed.

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,…