Community Mental Health Practitioner - Forensic

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional health services provider in Cambridge seeks registered Mental Health Practitioners. This full-time role involves providing specialist assessments and interventions for individuals with complex mental health needs. Candidates should hold relevant qualifications and a full UK driving licence. The position includes working in a multi-disciplinary team and shift-based work to ensure continuous care delivery.

Qualifications

• Experience in mental health support and care delivery.
• Strong communication skills for teamwork.
• Ability to handle complex cases and provide assessments.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist assessment and care planning.
• Lead care coordination and management processes.
• Deliver interventions for individuals with complex needs.

Skills

Registered Mental Health Practitioner

Full UK driving licence

Ability to work within a multi-disciplinary team

Education

Nursing, Social Work, or Occupational Therapy qualification

Job description

Overview

A Vacancy at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust.

This is a developmental post and will provide the opportunity for successful candidates to progress to Band 6, upon completion of agreed competencies.

We are looking to recruit registered Mental Health Practitioners (Nurses, Social workers, Occupational Therapists) on a full-time permanent basis.

CPFT are one of six providers of specialist mental health and learning disability care in the East of England, working collaboratively to ensure there is a seamless pathway of care, that is closer to home for the communities that we serve.

This enhanced specialist service consists of a multi-disciplinary team, based in Cambridge and Peterborough, which cover the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough population. The service works with adults diagnosed with a mental health condition and/or learning disability who present with a risk of significant harm to others, to achieve optimal management of risk and minimize re-offending.

Working closely with the individual, we produce a tailored care package together that is focused around their personal needs. The service adopts a compassionate and trauma informed approach to promote relapse prevention and recovery, so enabling individuals to realise their full potential whilst supporting them to continue to build and live meaningful lives in the community.

The services aims to:

• Ensure the shortest inpatient to community journey
• Provide a robust discharge by means of a collaborative wrap around service.
• Deliver a seamless pathway of care that is centred around the individuals needs.

You will be joining an experienced multidisciplinary team of professionals including psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, support workers and administrators who all share a passion and drive for delivering high quality care and treatment to service users with forensic histories.

The post will also involve working closely with a low secure unit to ensure a smooth pathway of care from inpatient to community.

The service will run 7 days a week, excluding bank holidays, and will include shift work on a rotational basis.

Please note for this role you will be required to travel independently around the county meeting strict time deadlines. You will need to hold a full UK driving licence and have use of a vehicle.

Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health & social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health & wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting & empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services not only via inpatient and primary care setting but also with the community. These services include Children, Adult & Older Peoples mental & physical health, Forensic & Specialist mental health, Learning Disabilities, Primary Care & Liaison psychiatry, Substance misuse, Social care, Research & Development.

To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high calibre candidates that share our vision & values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people & members of our ethnic minorities & LGBTQ+ communities.

Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.

Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• To work within the Forensic Psychiatry Community Service to provide specialist assessment, care planning and interventions.
• To take a lead role in the care planning process, take on care co – ordination responsibilities and work within the Care Programme Approach ensuring that Service and Trust policies are adhered to.
• To take a lead role and work with those people who have more complex and challenging needs across the caseload.
• To develop practice within the teams in the assessment of health and well – being needs.
• Working closely with the Consultant Forensic Psychiatrists and other members of the multi – disciplinary team, act as a central link in the ongoing management of complex cases for the team.
• To provide specialist knowledge and advice to other agencies for the purposes of public protection.
• To provide written reports in respect of Mental Health Tribunals as required.
• To act as a ‘social supervisor’ for those people who remain subject to Mental Health Act restrictions whilst living out of hospital.
• Take part in the evaluation of the care of individuals at review meetings, case conferences, ward rounds etc.
• To attend and contribute to team meetings, providing specialist professional advice and support to staff regarding the management of individual service users and their programmes of care.
• To provide specialist clinical advice across the Trust as required.
• To liaise with community statutory and non- statutory community and inpatient services.

This advert closes on Monday 6 Oct 2025