Mental Health Practitioner (Forensic)

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

Job summary

A leading health and social care organisation in Peterborough seeks a specialist mental health practitioner for its Forensic Community Psychiatry Service. The role involves providing assessments, care planning, and managing complex cases. The ideal candidate should have strong communication skills, a full UK driving licence, and the ability to work with challenging needs. This position offers a fulfilling opportunity to make a positive impact on service users' lives in the community.

Qualifications

• Full UK driving licence and use of a vehicle required for independent travel.
• Experience in mental health assessment and care planning.
• Ability to work within the Care Programme Approach.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist mental health practitioner assessment and care planning.
• Lead the care planning process and coordinate care interventions.
• Manage complex cases with more challenging needs.

Skills

Strong communication skills

Relationship-building skills

Ability to manage complex cases

Job description

Join Our Forensic Community Psychiatry Service!

We provide specialist assessment and treatment for people with mental illness and/or intellectual disability living in the community who pose, or could pose, a significant risk of serious harm to others. Many of our service users have a history of serious violent offending. Our focus is on safe risk management and supporting recovery.

Our team works with compassion at its core, ensuring high-quality care for both service users and staff. We’re looking for someone who shares this ethos—embedding compassion, collaboration, and recovery-oriented practice in everything they do.

As a key member of our multidisciplinary team, you’ll work closely with health and justice partners, local authorities, and voluntary organisations. Strong communication and relationship-building skills are essential to promote shared vision, high standards of care, and effective risk management.

In this role, you’ll manage complex cases, lead comprehensive assessments, and coordinate tailored interventions. Your expertise will help shape outcomes and make a real difference in people’s lives.

If you’re ready for a challenging, rewarding role where your specialist knowledge truly matters, we’d love to hear from you!

• Provide specialist mental health practitioner assessment and care planning within the Forensic Psychiatry Community Service.
• Take a lead role in the care planning process, take on care coordination responsibilities and work within the Care Programme Approach ensuring that Service and Trust policies are adhered to.
• Take a lead role and work with those people who have more complex and challenging needs across the caseload.

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. You cannot use public transport for this role as this is not a reliable form of transport and will not allow you to meet service needs. Please confirm in your application that you meet the specified criteria.

DVLA have a reciprocal arrangement with overseas countries, for further information please visit the DVLA website.

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

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.

To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.

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.

For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk

For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Fiona Collett
Job title: Team Manager
Email address: [e-mail]
Telephone number: 01223 219543