# Consultant Practitioner - Community Mental Health > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/consultant-practitioner-community-mental-health/7036cf37-53c8-47bb-910d-873e078d0e88 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/consultant-practitioner-community-mental-health/7036cf37-53c8-47bb-910d-873e078d0e88.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Bodmin Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Advanced clinical practitioner - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £66,582 - £77,368 Per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-10-29T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-15T09:00:51.844Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Cornwall/Bodmin/Cornwall_Partnership_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Consultant_Practitioner_Community_Mental_Health/Consultant_Practitioner_Community_Mental_Health-v8332330 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8332330?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.cornwallft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Adult community mental health services are going through an exciting period of transition as we develop and enhance our services for people with complex mental health problems. Formerly known as Assertive Outreach we are modernising our service offering to create an intensive and assertive treatment model within our community mental health services. We are looking for an consultant practitioner with a special interest in substance misuse and psychosis to offer clinical expertise in the development of this service. You will support the creation of a co-produced model of care that enables those with complex needs to engage with services. You will have a lead role in enabling the service to evolve using existing pathways and new investments. You will work with the health and social care system to ensure that we are offering the highest quality of care. You will join a highly motivated and experienced leadership team and will be a take a key clinical and leadership role within the community mental health division. You will have an active role working alongside an established operational and clinical leadership team to ensure that we are delivering safe and effective care to those with complex mental health needs. You will take a clinical leadership role and be proactive in the delivery of care. This is a newly developed role and is an exciting opportunity for you to take the lead in shaping services and care delivery. ### 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 ### 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 You must have appropriate UK professional registration. 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/Knowledge and abilities **Essential** - Commitment to patient advocacy, staff development and service improvement - Evidence of continuing professional development ### Education / Qualifications and Relevant Experience **Essential** - NMC or HCPC Registration - University Advanced Clinical Practice qualification or evidence of ePortfolio registered with the Academy of Advancing Practice - Educated to master’s degree level in relevant subject - Non- Medical Prescribing qualification - Significant experience of working with adults with mental health problems in an Inpatient and Crisis Services setting at a senior level - Research experience **Desirable** - Professional Nurse Advocate Qualification - Leadership qualification ## 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) - [job description (pdf, 303.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10655441) - [parental entitlement (pdf, 300.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1834) - [functional requirements (pdf, 204.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10655442) - [recruitment complaints policy (pdf, 113.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=976) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.