# Forensic Practitioner (Care Coordinator)

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Willerby Hill Trust Headquarters
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Care coordinator
- **Grade:** Band 6
- **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 Per anum
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-09-16T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-08-28T14:01:03.545Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/East_Yorkshire/Hull/Humber_Teaching_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Forensic_Practitioner/Forensic_Practitioner-v8263083
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8263083?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.humber.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

The Community Forensic Teams have undergone service transformation, and an exciting opportunity has arisen for a Forensic Practitioner to become part of our Adult Community Forensic Team providing a service across the Hull and East Riding area with a base at the Humber Centre for Forensic Psychiatry.

We are seeking to appoint a skilled practitioner as a care coordinator for a community forensic caseload. You will be a practitioner who is able to work compassionately, understanding the impact of trauma whilst also managing risk of harm. Who is excited by the opportunity of working alongside professional colleagues in a dynamic, growing, and evolving Adult Community Forensic Service.

The successful applicant will be a registered Mental Health Nurse, Learning Disability Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Social Worker and support the delivery of consultation, specialist assessment, therapeutic intervention, and care co-ordination within the Community Forensic Team. You will hold responsibility for delivering safe, effective, and evidenced care to support a community-to-community forensic pathway in the context of a trauma informed model of care.

The successful applicant will need to have the means to travel.

### Main duties of the job

The Forensic Practitioner will support the delivery of specialist assessment, therapeutic intervention, and care co-ordination with the community forensic team.

Key Responsibilities include:

Clinical Responsibilities

Utilise specialist forensic skills in consultation, assessment, intervention and care co-ordination.

Deliver clinical care and promote evidence-based practice.

Assist in assessment, formulation and care planning.

Use critical thinking and clinical decision-making skills.

Handle distressing situations sensitively, including managing complex situations.

Ensure patient safety.

Multi-Disciplinary Working

Support therapeutic interventions within a multi-disciplinary team.

Provide clinical support and advice to colleagues.

Work autonomously and collaboratively within the team.

Engage with service users and carers.

Service Development

Participate in training and research projects.

Maintain high standards of documentation.

Manage resources.

Support managers with service development projects.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information with regard to this vacancy please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

### Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

## Person Specification

### Skills

**Essential**

- Ability to demonstrate effective communication skills
- Ability to manage exposure to emotional/distressing circumstances
- Ability to demonstrate ethical values and attitudes within a culture of equality and diversity
- Ability to attend and complete regular mandatory training.

### Experience

**Essential**

- Evidence of sound post-registration professional practice
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Educated to degree level or be able to demonstrate equivalent knowledge or experiential learning/experience

**Desirable**

- Training or qualification in the delivery of therapeutic intervention

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- Professional qualification relevant to practice area, with study to degree level, with evidence of additional post graduate study
- Registered practitioner with professional body

**Desirable**

- Member of organisational group/network, locally or nationally
- Relevant forensic experience in a range of settings

## Documents

- [being humber (pdf, 1.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2687)
- [staff benefits (pdf, 1.4mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2760)
- [recruitment of ex-offenders (pdf, 336.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2269)
- [application guide & interview tips (pdf, 600.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3021)
- [job description and person specification (pdf, 328.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10577086)

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