Primary Mental Health Clinical Team Lead

**Primary Mental Health Clinical Team Lead**:**Band 7**:
**Main area**

Primary Mental Health
**Grade**

Band 7
**Contract**

Permanent
**Hours**

Full time - 37.5 hours per week

**Job ref**

201-22-340

**Site**

North Coastal PCN - Wadebridge/ Port Issac
**Town**

Wadebridge
**Salary**

£40,057 - £45,839 Per annum
**Salary period**

Yearly
**Closing**

Today at 23:59

**Thank you for your interest in working for **Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust**:
**Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust prides itself in striving to be an employer of choice.**
- Our Trust objectives are:_
- Improve health and wellbeing and reduce inequalities by working in partnership and creating opportunities for our citizens.
- Provide safe, high quality, timely and compassionate care and support, in local communities wherever possible, and informed by experience of people who use services.
- Make Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly a great place to work in health and social care.
- Working efficiently so health and care funding give maximum benefits.
- Create the underpinning infrastructure and capabilities that are critical to delivering high quality care and support.

All external appointments to the Trust will be required to attend a full Trust Corporate Induction which will be held at Carew House, Beacon Technology Park, Dunmere Road, Bodmin, PL31 2QN.

At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

**Primary Mental Health Clinical Team Lead B7: North Cornwall Coast PCN**

It’s a refreshing & exciting time to join our Adult Mental Health Services in Cornwall, as we are focused on enhancing our services with outstanding levels of quality care. Our transformation of our core community mental health service offer is well under way, and we are looking for creative people to join our new workforce. We are forging and renewing partnerships between colleagues in Primary & Secondary Care Services to create innovative and transformed mental health care for our population.

Due to these positive & transformative changes, we now have an exciting and unique opportunity for the right person to lead this transformation within North Cornwall Coast Primary Care Network under the employment of Cornwall Foundation Trust (CFT). The North Cornwall Coast PCN practices includes Port Isaac Surgery, Wadebridge & Camel Estuary Medical Practice and Bottreaux Surgery. Our practices are friendly, supportive, and already supporting a broad range of clinical staff focused on delivering a high standard of patient care.

The aims of this role will be to:
- Deliver improved access to a broader range of care options by offering timely and expert assessment.
- Aim to include evidence informed approaches that are known to impact on both mental and physical health.
- In keeping with the national guidance on the introduction of this role, it is envisaged that the focus of a practitioner’s work will generally be people whose needs cannot be met by IAPT services but who may not need ongoing care from secondary care community mental health services.
- Reduce referrals to specialist services to enable earlier interventions that will improve patient experience and outcomes.

In a supportive partnership the PCN & CFT want to achieve care that is joined up, patient centred, trauma informed, place based (locality hub) where practitioners and communities collaborate optimising community assets. By reducing repeated assessments and addressing the needs of those with complex emotional needs earlier and locally, we can reduce distress and work with those with early adversity to have more meaningful and active lives, focusing on what matters to the person. This then enables secondary care to offer expert treatment to those with severe mental illness.

The mental health practitioner may be any registered clinical role including, but not limited to, a Community Psychiatric Nurse, and Mental Health Occupational Therapist. You need to be proactive approach to innovation and be passionate about providing a high-quality holistic approach to the care. This is a fantastic opportunity for you to develop your career and skills, whilst working with a highly innovative and transformative group of professionals. The co-location of Primary and Specialist Mental Health Services places you in a unique position and will enable you to create meaningful working relationships that enhance care. You can influence the future pathway model and y