# Community Mental Health Support Worker- Carrick CMHT

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Carrick ICMHT
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Healthcare support worker
- **Salary:** £25760.00 to £27476.00
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday - 9am - 5pm)
- **Closing date:** 2026-08-31T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-08-17T14:54:32.837Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8182413
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8182413?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.cornwallft.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

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

### Main duties of the job

- 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.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To view a detailed job description and person specification including the main responsibilities of this role please see ‘supporting documents’.

### Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

## Person Specification

### Skills and Aptitude

**Essential**

- Working with clients with a range of mental health problems.

**Desirable**

- Working within a community setting in either the statutory or voluntary sector.

### Education / Qualifications and Relevant Experience

**Essential**

- NVQ3 in healthcare or equivalent qualification or experience
- Must be willing to undertake relevant training
- IT literacy
- A basic understanding of current National Guidelines and Mental Health Act/ Mental Health Capacity Act requirements

**Desirable**

- Understanding of CBT methodology

## Documents

- [autism support (pdf, 38.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=977)
- [dyslexia support (pdf, 76.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1833)
- [parental entitlement (pdf, 300.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1834)
- [functional requirements form (pdf, 49.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10485865)
- [recruitment complaints policy (pdf, 113.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=976)
- [job description & person specification (pdf, 390.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10485864)

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