Community Forensic Learning Disability/RMN Nurse

Job 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.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be expected to:

• 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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• 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 co ordinator.   •    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