Band 6 Forensic Community Mental Health Nurse Practitioner - Bristol

Job overview

We are looking for a substantive Band 6 Forensic Community Mental Health/LDA Nurse Practitioner for the FIND Team and Forensic Outreach and Liaison Service (FOLs).

The Forensic Intellectual, Neuropsychiatric & Developmental Disorders (FIND) team and Forensic Outreach and Liaison Service (FOLs) are expanding services that with an imminent expansion are going to merge, that provide support and intervention to service users transitioning from secure care to the community. The teams are based at Fromeside, Blackberry Hill Hospital. The teams provide cover across BNSSG, BSW, Somerset and Gloucester

We also offer specialist support, advice and guidance to mental health and other relevant services.

The successful applicant will care coordinate a small caseload with support from an expert MDT and jointly work with recovery teams.

This is an exciting post in an innovative developing service and we are aiming to develop a highly skilled team. There are training opportunities in a range of therapeutic skills and clinical tools, including, HCR- 20 and Dundrum.

We are looking to recruit a dynamic, motivated and experienced Registered RMN/LD Nurse. You will need to have a minimum of 2 years post qualification experience in mental Health.

For full details, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Main duties of the job

This opportunity would be perfect for someone who has relevant forensic experience with a keen interest in learning disabilities and autism.

This role is focused on providing appropriate, effective interventions and treatments, including administering depots to people with forensic LD&A needs, their carers (including friends and relatives), and their supporters in the community, enabling and assisting them to meet daily health, social care, and well‑being needs in line with personal recovery goals, and facilitating engagement with mainstream services. The post holder may also be required to provide support, advice, and supervision to team members and other mental health and CLDT teams.

Always under the overarching framework of CPA, the post holder will be responsible for the ongoing assessment, planning, delivery, and review of activities and interventions against identified health, social care, and well‑being needs, acting as care coordinator for a defined group of service users. The role will also require undertaking and delivering specific health or social care assessments and interventions, including for identified service users on other caseloads. This may be either on a one‑to‑one basis or as part of a group activity. Secure services are currently in the process of transitioning over to Your Team, You Care, Your Conversation.

It is an essential requirement that applicants have a driving licence and their own personal transport.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Working with service users with learning disabilities and/or autism and a history of extremely challenging and risky behaviour, who have typically been excluded from other services and may be difficult to engage. Working within highly complex systems. This post is emotionally demanding and requires strict adherence to appropriate personal and professional boundaries.

To undertake the full range of activities required to deliver ongoing, comprehensive care for service users with forensic needs, both in hospital and in the community. This will include:

• Standardised risk assessment tools, e.g., Dundrum, HCR‑20
• Recovery Star
• Needs assessment
• Mental state assessment
• Consideration of culture and diversity
• Functional needs assessment
• Carers’ assessments
• Evaluation of risk
• Physical health assessment
• Social care needs
• Safeguarding and public protection
• Activities of daily living
• Assessment of capacity under the Mental Capacity Act
• Administering depot medications

To be responsible for developing, delivering, and reviewing comprehensive and complex treatment interventions using appropriate frameworks in line with evidence‑based practice, including strategies to manage risk for service users with complex needs and their carers, bringing in other resources as required.

To act as care coordinator for service users as required and to provide defined interventions to individuals on other workers’ caseloads.

For full details, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.