Primary Mental Health Clinical Team Lead

Job summary

Primary Mental Health Clinical Team Lead B7: North Cornwall Coast PCN

It's a refreshing & exciting time to join our Adult Mental Health Services in Cornwall, as we are focused on enhancing our services with outstanding levels of quality care.

Our wholescale transformation of the core community mental health service offer is well under way, and we are looking for creative people to join our new workforce. We are forging and renewing partnerships between colleagues in Primary & Secondary Care Services to create innovative and transformed mental health care for our population.

Due to these positive & transformative changes, we now have an stimulating and unique opportunity for the right person to lead this transformation within North Cornwall Coast Primary Care Network under the employment of Cornwall Foundation Trust (CFT).

North Cornwall Coast Primary Care Network (PCN) represents approximately 21,423 patients and encompasses 3 friendly GP practices in North Cornwall. These 3 practices are Bottreaux Surgery, Port Isaac Practice and Wadebridge and Camel Estuary Practice . The PCN vision focuses on expanding its multidisciplinary team for the benefit of the patients. We already have a team of paramedics, pharmacists, social prescribers, and physiotherapists working across the PCN.

Main duties of the job

The aims of this role will be to:

• Deliver improved access to a broader range of care options by offering timely and expert assessment.
• Aim to include evidence informed approaches that are known to impact on both mental and physical health.
• In keeping with the national guidance on the introduction of this role, it is envisaged that the focus of a practitioner's work will generally be people whose needs cannot be met by IAPT services but who may not need ongoing care from secondary care community mental health services.
• Reduce referrals to specialist services to enable earlier interventions that will improve patient experience and outcomes.

In a supportive partnership the PCN & CFT want to achieve care that is joined up, patient centred, trauma informed, place based (locality hub) where practitioners and communities collaborate optimising community assets. By reducing repeated assessments and addressing the needs of those with complex emotional needs earlier and locally, we can reduce distress and work with those with early adversity to have more meaningful and active lives, focusing on what matters to the person. This then enables secondary care to offer expert treatment to those with severe mental illness.

About us

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, 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.

Approximately 568,000 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.