Social Inclusion Team Lead

Band 6 Main area Social inclusion Grade Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday 9-5) Job  
-A Site Engineers House Town St Austell, Cornwall Salary £38,682 - £46,580 Per Annum Salary period Yearly Closing 08/03/2026 23:59

Thank you for your interest in joining us at Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
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We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.

• Care based on what matters to people.
• Care provided at home or close to home.
• Improvement through learning, research and innovation.
• Prevention and alternatives to hospital.

• Buildings that support health and wellbeing.
• Technology enabled care.
• Care teams are supported by responsive corporate services.
• Safe, efficient, effective and productive.

• A place people love to work and feel valued.
• Living our values with staff (all voices count).
• Attract, grow and develop talent.
• Leaders with compassion, who continuously learn and listen.

• Encourage and enable effective partnerships.
• Joined-up community services.
• Work with others to maximise workforce opportunities.
• Reduce our impact on the environment.

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 thats 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.

We are developing adult mental health rehabilitation services in Cornwall in line with the NHSE transformation programme. Our provision includes a 12-bedded inpatient unit and a growing Community Mental Health Rehabilitation Team supporting smooth transitions and helping people remain well  caseload focuses on people with complex psychosis who may need short inpatient admissions for symptom stabilisation, medication review, physical health monitoring and support with daily living.

We have created a dedicated transition pathway and are offering an exciting opportunity for a motivated, compassionate RMN to lead this work and support our Social Inclusion Workers. You will take a person-centred approach, using the Dialogue+ model to co-produce individualised plans. A key part of the role is enabling timely, sustainable discharges from acute wards. Strong communication skills are essential, as you will work closely with families, carers, acute services, crisis teams, HTT, housing providers, VCSE partners and patient-flow teams.

You will also provide clinical supervision to Social Inclusion Workers, each holding a short-term caseload. Join us at a pivotal time as we expand our countywide service. Our team is compassionate, innovative and committed to high-quality care. If you are interested whether already in CFT or considering relocation please get in touch for an informal conversation.

• To be responsible for the assessment of care needs and clinical management of the rehabilitation outreach caseload within the Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (CFT) Mental Health Service.
• To carry continuing responsibility for the development, implementation, and evaluation of programs of care, utilising the Lead HPC/ co-ordination system.
• The Social inclusion team lead is expected to provide clear clinical operational leadership to the Community Team including the social inclusion team, staff nurses and healthcare assistants. They will do this, first and foremost by themselves providing exemplary practice.
• This post requires you to be office based the majority of the time.
• They will also take on specific management duties within the Community Team that are commensurate with their grade and provide general management in the absence of the Community Manager.
• They will provide clear clinical leadership and direction in the on-going benchmarking and good practice service evolution.
• To develop the interface between primary and secondary care services so the patients/carers are offered focused and coordinated packages of care that are appropriate to their needs.

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 peoples 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 peoples homes, in…