Specialist Community Forensic Team Practitioner

**The closing date is 23rd Mar 2025**

**Job summary**:
A unique opportunity has arisen for a Specialist Community Forensic Team Practitioner for full time or part time practitioners. This role is an integral part of our established multi-disciplinary teams which include Doctors, Nurses, Psychologists, Occupational Therapists and Speech and Language Therapists.

The Specialist Community Forensic Service operates across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight and aims to reduce patients' length of stay in forensic units. The team is multi-disciplinary (including forensic psychiatry, mental health nursing, clinical psychology, social work and occupational therapy).

The team works with patients who have a diagnosis of mental illness and have been in contact with the criminal justice system and are transitioning out of secure inpatient services. The team work closely with our patients as they move into the community so that they can eventually live safely and independently with the support of our community mental health services. The focus is on offering the least restrictive care possible and providing an alternative to a secure inpatient setting.

**Main duties, tasks & skills required**:

- To act as care co-ordinator to an agreed caseload of service users with severe and enduring mental illness with a forensic history.
- To undertake ongoing assessment, treatment and evaluation for service users known to the service.
- To use professional knowledge to assess, monitor and review social care needs of individuals, relatives and carers within a specific care group in accordance with agreed competencies, quality standards and professional good practice in relation to case and risk management.
- To work in partnership with patients, carers, relatives and other agencies to identify current and future service requirements and contribute to service development within the scope of the role.
- As a core member of the MDT, facilitate safe and appropriate discharge for patients by co-ordinating the discharge process.
- Carry a case load of complex patients.
- Provide advice and guidance to staff within the service and refer to external partners when required.

**About us**:
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a newly established organisation, combining the expertise and services of multiple NHS providers to deliver high-quality healthcare across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
With a dedicated workforce exceeding 12,000 staff and a footprint that spans more than 200 sites across Hampshire, we offer an extensive range of services, including mental health, learning disabilities, community, and physical health care, reaching diverse communities across urban, rural, and coastal areas.
We are committed to delivering care with compassion, accountability, respect, and excellence, ensuring that our patients and service users are at the heart of everything we do. By working closely with our partners, we're creating a forward-thinking, inclusive organisation that champions staff development, well-being, and collaboration.
Join us and be part of an organisation dedicated to delivering exceptional healthcare; where your skills and ambitions can make a real difference to the communities we serve, now and in the future.

**Job description**:
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

**Person specification**:
**Qualifications**:
**Essential**:
Registered Nurse, Social Worker, Mental Health Practitioner or O.T.

Computer skills

Significant post qualifying experience

Mentorship course

Clinical supervision training

**Disclosure and Barring Service Check**:
**UK Professional Registration**:
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Wendy Scott

**Pay scheme**:
Agenda for Change

**Band**:
Band 6

**Salary**:

- £37338.00 to £44962.00 Yearly

**Contract**:
Permanent

**Working pattern**:
Part-Time, Full-Time

**Reference number**:
348-SS-7508

**Job locations**:
Tatchbury Mount
Calmore
Southampton
Hampshire
SO40 2RZ