Job overview
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
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 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
To safely manage the transition from forensic community services to general adult community services.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main 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 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.
• 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
Essential criteria
1. Recognised Professional Qualification in Mental Health Nursing or Social Care
2. Relevant Mentorship Qualification
Desirable criteria
3. Degree or Master level
Experience
Essential criteria
4. 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
5. Significant relevant clinical experience
6. Evidence of continuing professional development
7. Experience as a preceptor / mentor
8. Knowledge of clinical governance and audit
9. Knowledge of relevant Professional and Clinical legislation
Desirable criteria
10. Experience of taking responsibility for a ward / clinical unit
11. Experience of engaging / supporting clinical research projects
12. Experience of supporting practice development in clinical areas
13. Experience of teaching. e.g. lecturer practitioner/preceptorship
14. Experience of recruitment and selection of staff
Knowledge and skills
Essential criteria
15. Able to provide quality care that is responsive to service user’s needs.
16. Teaching ability
17. Resilient: able to cope with difficult interpersonal situations.
18. Approachable
19. Self-aware, self-confident and Intrinsically motivated to do a good job and to motivate others.
Desirable criteria
20. Problem solving, ability to identify problems, review options and take appropriate action without a predetermined framework