Specialist Forensic Practitioner

Job overview

Are you a Registered RMN, OT, Social Worker or Psychological Therapist seeking a new challenge?

We're looking for a part time Specialist Forensic Practitioner to join our Forensic Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (FCAMHS) team, supporting children and adolescents with complex mental health needs. This role offers valuable experience in a community forensic setting within a small, supportive team of experienced clinicians, including Clinical Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Nurses, and Admin staff. While the role includes key tasks such as providing training in specialist assessments and risk work not typically available in similar positions.

You'll receive regular clinical supervision and take part in monthly team meetings focused on wellbeing and reflective practice.

Applicants should hold a professional qualification either in Mental Health Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Social Work, with experience in mental health-preferably working with young people and ideally in a forensic setting.

Strong communication, organisation, and IT skills (including Microsoft Office and basic Excel) are essential, along with a genuine interest in supporting the most vulnerable and marginalised young people with mental health challenges.

Main duties of the job

• Provide expert care to patients on their caseload. Providing skilled assessment, treatment, supervision and consultation within Forensic CAMHS.
• Provide expertise and specialist advice, supervision, guidance and consultation to other professionals
• Make decisions where precedents do not exist, where appropriate without recourse to others, and to advise and support colleagues where standard protocols do not apply.
• Draw on advanced knowledge and exercise professional skills of the highest order, some of which are likely to be highly specialist, acquired only after lengthy training, supervision andpractice.
• Build on and maintain working relationships between the Youth Offending Services, Children's Social Care and wider CAMHS Teams.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application.

The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview, and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.