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Forensic Community Care Coordinator
The closing date is 11 May 2026
We are looking for an enthusiastic and proactive forensic care coordinator to join our community forensic team based at Queens Resource Centre in Croydon. The forensic community team aims to provide assessment, treatment, rehabilitation and aftercare to those service users with a mental disorder and associated offending behaviour. The level of service involvement will be determined by a combination of a service user's current mental health, historical factors, the nature of offending behaviour and the degree of risk posed, as well as the specific criteria of the local service.
Main duties of the job
To provide care coordination and case management to defined caseload of service users with offending history within the framework of the Care Programme Approach (CPA).
To care co-ordinate mentally disordered offenders in the least restrictive setting.
To oversee/monitor and coordinate the discharge of mentally disordered offenders from secure forensic inpatient settings.
To ensure the safe and sustainable transition of service user to the community from secure care.
Care and support for patients requiring specialist interventions to address mental health and criminogenic needs, and to reduce the risk of relapse and reoffending.
To provide consultation and training to local mental health teams and external agencies.
To safely manage the transition from forensic community services to general adult community services.
About us
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) provide the widest range of NHS mental health services in the UK as well as substance misuse services for people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol. We work closely with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London and are part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre. There are very few organisations in the world that have such wide-ranging capabilities working with mental illness. Our scope is unique because it is built on three major foundations: care and treatment, science and research, and training.
SLaM employ around 5000 staff and serve a local population of 1.1 million people. We have more than 230 services including inpatient wards, outpatient and community services. Currently, provide inpatient care for approximately 5,300 people each year and treat more than 45,000 patients in the community in Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark; as well as substance misuse services for residents of Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich.
Job responsibilities
The Forensic Community Service aims to provide assessment, treatment, rehabilitation and aftercare to those service users with a mental disorder and associated offending behaviour. The level of service involvement will be determined by a combination of a service users current mental health, historical factors, the nature of offending behaviour and the degree of risk posed, as well as the specific criteria of the local service.
To provide care coordination and case management to defined caseload of service users with offending history within the framework of the Care Programme Approach (CPA).
To care co-ordinate mentally disordered offenders in the least restrictive setting.
To oversee/monitor and coordinate the discharge of mentally disordered offenders from secure forensic inpatient settings.
To ensure the safe and sustainable transition of service user to the community from secure care.
Care and support for patients requiring specialist interventions to address mental health and criminogenic needs, and to reduce the risk of relapse and reoffending.
To provide consultation and training to local mental health teams and external agencies.
To safely manage the transition from forensic community services to general adult community services.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Recognised Professional Qualification in Mental Health Nursing or Social Care
* Degree or Master level
Experience
* Experience of research based/reflective practice, e.g. understanding and ability to use supervision to reflect on skills, attitude and knowledge and develop these by using evidence-based practice
* Significant relevant clinical experience
* Evidence of continuing professional development
* Experience as a preceptor / mentor
* Knowledge of clinical governance and audit
* Knowledge of relevant Professional and Clinical legislation
* Experience of taking responsibility for a ward / clinical unit
* Experience of engaging / supporting clinical research projects
* Experience of supporting practice development in clinical areas
* Experience of teaching. e.g. lecturer practitioner/preceptorship
* Experience of recruitment and selection of staff
Knowledge and skills
* Able to provide quality care that is responsive to service user's needs.
* Teaching ability
* Resilient: able to cope with difficult interpersonal situations.
* Approachable
* Self-aware, self-confident and Intrinsically motivated to do a good job and to motivate others.
* Problem solving, ability to identify problems, review options and take appropriate action without a predetermined framework
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
£44,485 to £52,521 a yearper annum inclusive of HCAS
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