Trosolwg o'r swydd

The Community Forensic Teams have undergone service transformation, and an exciting opportunity has arisen for a Forensic Practitioner to become part of our Adult Community Forensic Team providing a service across the Hull and East Riding area with a base at the Humber Centre for Forensic Psychiatry.

We are seeking to appoint a skilled practitioner, with experience relevant to the role, who is excited by the opportunity of working alongside professional colleagues in a dynamic, growing, and evolving Adult Community Forensic Service.

The successful candidate will work primarily across the Learning Disability and/or Autism pathway but with scope to work into the Mental Health and Personality Disorder Pathway. A registered practitioner with experience relevant to either pathway will be considered. The successful candidate will support the delivery of consultation, specialist assessment and therapeutic intervention within the Community Forensic Team. They will hold responsibility for delivering safe, effective, and evidenced care to support a community-to-community forensic pathway 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.

Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd

The Forensic Practitioner will support the delivery of specialist assessment and therapeutic intervention with the community forensic teams.

Key Responsibilities include: 

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.

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.

Service Development

Participate in training and research projects.

Maintain high standards of documentation.

Manage resources.

Support managers with service development projects.  

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website

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 are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you’ll need to get you started.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes 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. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.

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.

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