Consultant Practitioner

We are looking for an innovative Consultant Practitioner to work within the inpatient and crisis services in Cornwall.

The scope of the post covers acute, PICU, low secure and rehabilitation wards as well as home treatment, helpline and emergency assessments services in ED.

You will need to be a highly competent, visible, experienced, and autonomous practitioner, effectively functioning across the four practice pillars to develop the practise within the services.

**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 inpatient and crisis 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.

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.

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