Community Forensic Learning Disability/RMN Nurse

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Dartford; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in Dartford is looking for a specialist to join their Forensic Intellectual and Neurodevelopmental Disabilities Community Team. Role entails coordination of care for high-risk individuals with learning disabilities and autism, managing complex caseloads, and ensuring compliance with statutory requirements. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in mental health care, possess strong communication skills, and demonstrate capability in risk management and care planning. Opportunities for professional development and mentorship are provided.

Qualifications

• Experience in providing care coordination and managing complex caseloads.
• Demonstrable experience in a mental health or forensic setting.
• Ability to conduct risk assessments and evidence-based interventions.

Responsibilities

• Manage a caseload of complex and high-risk clients.
• Develop and implement care packages in line with CPA guidelines.
• Engage with multidisciplinary teams for comprehensive client support.

Skills

Care coordination

Psychiatry experience

Risk management

Communication

Education

Relevant professional qualification in mental health or social work

Job description

Overview

This is an exciting and unique opportunity to join the newly developed Forensic Intellectual and Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (FIND) Community Team in Oxleas. You will be working within the Forensic Directorate in providing care coordination and support to individuals with learning disabilities / Autism, as per the teams operational policy and inclusion criteria. This includes providing intensively supported placements for men and women with a longer than average length of inpatient stay to gain and develop the skills necessary to live in the community. Focus will be on vocational and occupational skills, with social inclusion through a combination of support, access to community facilities, work experience, training, and employment support. There is an emphasis on service user involvement and peer worker support.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist knowledge and care coordination, including social supervision, through active management and follow up of a defined caseload as well as providing expert advice and consultation e.g. CMHT's, Community LD teams, Community Forensic mental health teams, courts, police liaison meetings, probation and mental health hostels.
• Assess, develop and implement care packages for patients within the framework of the CPA in conjunction with other members of the MDT. Works within codes of practice and professional guidelines and is accountable for own professional practice.
• Ensure observance and the working of all relevant legal and statutory requirements.
• Require to act within broad occupational policies without guidance or direct supervision.
• To participate fully in continuous professional development and supervision.
• To regularly provide mentorship and supervision to students on placement
• To administer risk management strategies including the administration of depot medication in the clients home. Organisation and delivery of prescribed medication to the client for the purposes of close monitoring of medication concordance. Random urine screening for illicit substance misuse as directed by Home Office directions.

About Oxleas

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

Additional role notes

• To manage a defined caseload of complex and challenging clients who present as high risk and will have demonstrated this through the nature and gravity of their offending.

• You will be expected to manage the conflict between the therapeutic alliance whilst keeping within the statutory and legal framework.

• You will be accountable for the assessment of care needs, risk assessment, development, implementation and evaluation of treatment packages and ensure that reviews take place within the Trust CPA policy.

• Provide care co ordination and / or joint working for a designated caseload of community clients who have committed serious offences and may be subject to formal statutory supervision e.g. conditionally discharged by the Home Office.

• Develop and implement evidence based interventions in the management of MDO's in the community including acting in the capacity as social supervisor and care coordinator.

• Ensure clinical effectiveness in working with patients, families and carers, including people who disengage from services, by facilitating engagement and therapeutic co-operation through the use of flexible and responsive engagement strategies which by the very nature of the client group can be complex and demanding.

• Preparation of social circumstances reports including Mental Health Review Tribunal reports as requested.

• Encounter distressing accounts of offending behaviour whilst undertaking assessments as well as in the course of your day to day duties e.g. extreme violence or of serious sexual assault

This advert closes on Wednesday 4 Feb 2026