Senior Practitioner - Forensics

ESSEX PARTNERSHIP UNIVERSITY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST; Billericay; On-site; GBP 43,000 - 57,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

27 days holiday + bank holidays

£8K relocation package

NHS Pension up to 14.5%

Staff discounts

Job summary

ESSEX PARTNERSHIP UNIVERSITY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST is seeking a Senior Forensic Practitioner (Band 7) to provide clinical and operational leadership within the Specialist Community Forensic Team. You will manage a clinical caseload and lead a multidisciplinary team to coordinate assessments, care planning and risk management across Essex.

You will chair MDTs, support service development, and help implement extended-hours working while maintaining high standards of practice and service delivery.

Qualifications

• Experience in clinical leadership within a forensic or community mental health service.
• Ability to manage caseloads while leading teams.
• Knowledge of transition and discharge planning.
• Experience in risk assessment and care planning.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical and operational leadership within the Specialist Community Forensic Team (SCFT).
• Hold a clinical caseload while leading and coordinating the team caseload with effective multidisciplinary working.
• Lead MDT meetings and contribute to service model development, including longer hours and extended regional teams.
• Contribute to supervision, staff development and service improvement, and manage clinical risk.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Team leadership

MDT meetings

Risk management

Job description

We are looking for an experienced and motivated Senior Forensic Practitioner to join the Specialist Community Forensic Team (SCFT). This Band 7 role provides clinical and operational leadership within a specialist forensic community service, working as part of a multidisciplinary team to support service users with complex social, forensic and rehabilitation needs. You will hold a clinical caseload alongside your leadership responsibilities, and contribute to the management and coordination of the wider team caseload, providing clinical leadership and supporting effective multidisciplinary working. SCFT is developing its service model to strengthen geographical working across Essex. This includes three geographical teams, shared clinical leadership and access to specialist resources across the service. The service is also introducing extended-hours working to increase planned clinical capacity and respond appropriately to changing patient need. You will contribute positively to these developments and help implement new ways of working. This includes working flexibly with colleagues across the service, supporting effective primary and secondary working arrangements, and improving continuity of care, transition and discharge. You will work closely with the Service Manager and the wider multidisciplinary team, providing clinical leadership, supporting staff and maintaining high standards of clinical practice and service delivery. As a Senior Forensic Practitioner in the Specialist Community Forensic Team (SCFT), you will provide clinical and operational leadership while holding a caseload of service users with complex needs. You will manage and coordinate the team caseload, ensuring service users receive appropriate assessment, care planning, risk management and rehabilitation support. Drawing on a detailed understanding of their needs and risks, you will contribute to effective clinical decision-making and provide advice on complex clinical and forensic matters. You will lead the multidisciplinary team, chairing MDT meetings where required. You will help develop the SCFT service model, including the move to three geographical teams, stronger local working and shared clinical responsibility. You will support primary and secondary working arrangements to maintain continuity of care, effective cross-cover and good use of the wider team's skills. As the model evolves, you will also help develop extended-hours working, supporting planned clinical activity and timely responses to changing need and risk. You will contribute to transition and discharge planning, working with inpatient services, community mental health services, local authorities and other partners to support appropriate movement through services. You will also contribute to supervision, appraisal, staff development, service improvement, partnership working and the management of clinical risk.
Valuing you. Recognising your dedication. At EPUT, we look after you.

• Receive supervision and support to help you fulfil your potential.
• Join an inclusive EPUT community and connect with others through engagement events and equality or champion networks.
• If you need help, we provide mental health and wellbeing services, occupational health advice and counselling.
  27 days holiday, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days after 10 years' service.
• Excellent pension of up to 14.5% of your pensionable pay.
• Staff discounts include Blue Light Card, NHS discount offers, and staff benefits.
• £8K relocation package if you move to Essex to join us
• Season ticket loans are interest-free to cover the cost of travelling to and from work via tram, rail, or bus.