Job overview
We are a multiagency rapid response service (MARRS) that delivers urgent support for children and young people who experience mental health crisis across Cornwall 24/7 365 days a year. We aim to build an integrated pathway that offers support and treatment for families in a joined-up way with support from health and social care. We have 3 bases in Cornwall (Bodmin, Truro and Helston), to provide a county wide service we would require to discuss this at interview. We are an integrated, multi-disciplinary CAMHS team, who focus on ensuring children and young people, and their families, get the right help at the right time. Your expertise is essential in the new model of care to ensure adaptive mentalization based integrative treatment. You will be reaching out to those hard to engage young people and their families, working to prevent hospital admission and supporting young people and their families on their journey of recovery. We are committed to enhancing this by offering you training opportunities to support our care delivery. You will be offered and supoort to complete a range of training including but not limited to: AMBIT, DBT, Solution focused, and trauma informed training.
Main duties of the job
- To provide short term, intensive mental health intervention for children and adolescents with complex mental health needs.
- Working with young people and families as an alternative to hospital admission.
- To provide advice, consultation and liaison to other child & adolescent mental health providers, particularly for Children in Care and Youth Offending Team.
- To provide psychosocial risk assessment and risk management.
- To work in partnership with children’s Social Care to deliver urgent care across services for children and young people who experience mental health and social care crisis across Cornwall.
- The team will operate county wide and will be integrated with CAMHS, the wider child and family health services as well as Cornwall Council’s social work service for children and families.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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Person specification
Skills and Aptitude
Essential
- Able to assess, plan, implement and evaluate treatment in young people.
- Can communicate and establish effective working relationships with children and young people and their families.
- To impart sensitive complex information when there may be barriers to understanding.
- Effective team player with the ability to initiate, prioritise and complete work autonomously.
Education / Qualifications and Relevant Experience
Essential
- Professional Qualification – Registered Nurse or other professional body such as Social Work/Occupational Therapy
- Professional Registration - NMC /HCPC
- Substantial post registration experience
- Experience of working with children and adolescents with complex mental health needs in a child focussed multi-agency setting.
- Experience of working in multi-disciplinary and multi-agency setting
Desirable
- Teaching or Training Qualification.
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This advert is for Senior Practitioner - Multi Agency Rapid Response Service (MARRS) with Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust in Bodmin, South West, England. It is listed as a Band 6 Nurse practitioner role. The advertised salary is £39,959 - £48,117 Per Annum/Pro Rata. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 02 Aug 2026.
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