Job Overview
We have an exciting opportunity for a full-time Forensic Practitioner post within the Adult Forensic Community Team on the Mental Health and Personality Disorder Pathway. The team is based at the Humber Centre for Forensic Psychiatry.
The Forensic Practitioner will support the delivery of specialist assessment, inreach, and therapeutic intervention. These services are designed to support individuals who are transitioning from secure settings back into the community. The teams also provide a consultation and assessment service to support community mental health teams.
The post will be responsible for delivering safe, effective, and evidence-based care. They will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team and deliver therapeutic intervention in the context of a trauma-informed model of care.
The successful applicant will need to have the means to travel between various geographical distances.
Main duties of the job
The Forensic Practitioner will support the delivery of specialist assessment and therapeutic intervention with the community forensic teams.
Key Responsibilities include:
1. Clinical Responsibilities:
Utilise specialist forensic skills in consultation, assessment, and intervention.
Deliver clinical care and promote evidence-based practice.
Assist in assessment, formulation, and care planning.
Use critical thinking and clinical decision-making skills.
Handle distressing situations sensitively, including managing complex situations.
Ensure patient safety.
2. Multi-Disciplinary Working:
Support therapeutic interventions within a multi-disciplinary team.
Provide clinical support and advice to colleagues.
Work autonomously and collaboratively within the team.
Engage with service users and carers.
3. Service Development:
Participate in training and research projects.
Maintain high standards of documentation.
Manage resources.
Support managers with service development projects.
Working for our organisation
We are an award-winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. We are a forward-thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and promote equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. Work-life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where, and how you work. We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria:
* Professional qualification relevant to practice area, with study to degree level, with evidence of additional post-graduate study.
* Experience of successful policy implementation and change.
* Understanding of relevant policy, legislation, drivers, and their application to clinical practice.
Desirable criteria:
* Member of organisational group/network, locally or nationally.
* Relevant forensic experience in a range of settings.
Experience
Essential criteria:
* Evidence of sound post-registration professional practice.
* Evidence of continuing professional development.
* Be a member of a recognised professional body and hold a current professional registration.
* Educated to degree level or be able to demonstrate equivalent knowledge or experiential learning/experience.
Desirable criteria:
* Training or qualification in the delivery of therapeutic intervention.
Skills
Essential criteria:
* Ability to demonstrate effective communication skills.
* Ability to manage exposure to emotional/distressing circumstances.
* Ability to demonstrate ethical values and attitudes within a culture of equality and diversity.
* To be able to attend and complete regular mandatory training.
Applicant Requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration. The postholder will have regular contact with vulnerable people and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Seniority level
Not Applicable
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Health Care Provider
Industries
Hospitals and Health Care
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