Community Forensic Learning Disability/RMN Nurse
| Posting date: | 26 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £42,939.00 to £50,697.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £42939.00 - £50697.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 13 July 2025 |
| Location: | Woolwich, SE18 3RG |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9277-25-0785 |
Summary
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