Consultant Practitioner - Intensive Assertive Treatment

Job summary

We are seeking an experienced highly motivated consultant practitioner to lead and develop our Intensive Assertive Treatment model. This is an unique opportunity for a senior clinician with advanced practice skills to make a meaningful impact on the lives of people with complex and enduring mental health needs who may struggle to engage with traditional services.

You will provide expert clinical leadership, drive service innovation and ensure high quality, patient centre care to individuals who require intensive, flexible and community base support.

You will provide advanced clinical assessment, formulation and evidence based interventions. Work collaboratively with the MDT, lead on complex case management and offer specialist consultation to staff across mental health, social care, primary care and voluntary services.

You will champion the principles of proactive, persistent and creative engagement initiatives. You will be dynamic, forward thinking enabling the team to embody creativity and innovation in their approaches to mental health care.

Main duties of the job

• 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 learn, develop and improve (in and from practice) to promote excellence.
• Research and innovation: develop a 'knowledge-rich and inquiry' culture across the service and system that contributes to research outputs and has a positive impact on development, quality, innovation, increasing capacity and capability and the system
• You will need to use your expert knowledge and skills to provide consultancy across that takes in all pillars, to share expertise across the community mental health service as well as positively impact the whole on the mental health care system.
• You will be expected to use your skills to engage both staff and system partners to best effect to maximise opportunities to improve practice, services, communities and populations as well as to add and sustain the capacity and capability of the workforce

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 her. 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 increase the numbers of people who use out services.