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Clinical Lead - Mental Health services
The closing date is 03 November 2025
Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is passionate about promoting good mental health and wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise and resources within our organisation and through our partnerships, to deliver high quality services that are safe and focused on people's recovery. Our Home Treatment and Crisis service provision is a pivotal part of the acute care pathway for people with acute mental health difficulties, and we are investing substantially in them to improve care. Your experience and enthusiasm could be just what we need to expand our teams.
This is an exciting opportunity to lead on a new service within Cornwall. The Mental Health Response Vehicle (MHRV) is in collaboration with SWAST and will be inline with MHRV service that has successfully responded to mental health crisis in other areas of South West.
This job is currently only open to people who already work for the NHS in Cornwall or the Isles of Scilly. We are committed to supporting our dedicated staff, so only current employees of the following organisations can apply:
* Cornwall Foundation Trust
* Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust
* Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Integrated Care Board
If you do not currently work for one of these NHS organisations, your application will not be considered at this time.
Main duties of the job
* To provide expert advice, line management, clinical leadership, caseload management, supervision and training to the team and will be responsible for ensuring the consistent provision of high quality mental health care to people in mental health crisis in the community.
* To provide expert clinical knowledge and prompt bio psychosocial assessment and treatment for the Crisis Hubs, HTT and SPOA patients with mental health or self-harm problems.
* To provide direct patient care to people in their home/ Crisis Hub who are acutely mentally ill and who do not require immediate physical health care.
* To be responsible for the rapid response to referrals, face to face assessment and gate keeping of admissions to hospital and facilitating discharge from in-patient services once the risk to the individual or others has decreased.
* To be expected to undertake urgent front line assessments from GP's and other referrers such as police, ambulance and local authority and make clinical decisions around appropriate care pathways.
* To demonstrate excellent risk assessment skills whilst also applying a holistic approach to assessing the health and social needs of people experiencing severe and enduring mental illness.
* To be responsible for referring and signposting to secondary mental health services, or alternative statutory or non-statutory agencies, and will be required to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
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.
Job responsibilities
To view a detailed job description and person specification including the main responsibilities of this role please see supporting documents.
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications and Relevant Experience
* Current professional registration NMC/HCPC/SWEngland
* Substantial Home Treatment Team Crisis resolution Practitioner experience and working knowledge of crisis assessment and intervention
* Extension experience of conducting clinical assessments including risk assessments
* Management / Leadership qualifications or current study
Skills and Aptitude
* Confident in their abilities to make rapid and effective decision
* Ability to lead, motivate and supervise a team of staff demonstrating the highest clinical standards
* Proven interpersonal, communication and supervision skills
Knowledge and abilities
* Ability to work flexibly and independently in pressured clinical environments
* Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the principles and knowledge base underpinning crisis assessment and intervention
* Sound knowledge of the Mental Health Act 1983 and other mental health legislation
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
£47,810 to £54,710 a yearPer Annum / Pro Rata
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