Job Description

We are looking to recruit to a full time position for an Advanced Forensic Practitioner to be part of our Forensic Child & Adolescent Mental Health Team (FCAMHS) and Harmful Sexual Behaviour Service for Young People. We provide a service across the Humberside region working closely with partners across Humber and Yorkshire.
We are looking for an experienced, knowledgeable and motivated individual, who is excited by the opportunity and challenge of working alongside professional colleagues in a dynamic Forensic Service. We are looking for practitioners with experience of working with young people and/or working in forensic services. The FCAMHS Team provide a highly specialist service and you will receive specialist training as part of a bespoke induction process. The team undertakes specialist forensic consultation, assessment, and intervention for children and adolescents with complex mental health presentation and offending / risk behaviours.
We promote flexible working within the service and would be open to applications for flexible working, including a potential to work less than full time hours.
Main duties of the job
The Advanced Forensic Practitioner will be a highly skilled clinician offering specialist forensic perspective to the assessment and intervention offered to young people.
The role will support operational colleagues and managers in the operational delivery of the service. The Advanced Forensic Practitioner will provide professional and clinical leadership to team members and will work closely with regional partners.
You will receive and provide regular supervision and attend training as identified through knowledge skills framework process and individual appraisal.
The successful applicant will need to have the means to travel between various geographical distances.
This role is a rare chance to work within a highly specialist service for young people. You will have the opportunity to learn from partners across Humber and Yorkshire. It is an excellent opportunity to not only be part of a highly specialist team but also to be a part of service development at a regional level.
About us
We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website
We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.
We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you'll need to get you started.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.
Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.
We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.
From city to countryside, market towns to moors you'll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.
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Details
Date posted
21 July 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 7
Salary
47,810 to 54,710 a year pa pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
338-7311254-25
Job locations
The Humber Centre for Forensic Psychiatry
Beverley Road
Willerby
HU10 6ED
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further informationwith regard to this vacancy please see attached and Person Specification. Job description
Job responsibilities
For further informationwith regard to this vacancy please see attached and Person Specification.
Person Specification
Qualifications & Knowledge
Essential

• Professional qualification relevant to practice area, with study to degree level
• Registered practitioner with professional body
• Full understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/audit within identified service area

Desirable

• Be qualified to deliver a mode of therapeutic intervention with clinical relevance to the role and service user population

Experience
Essential

• Evidence of sound post-registration professional practice
• Evidence of continuing professional development relevant to the professional lead area to advanced level of post-graduate diploma or equivalent knowledge /experiential learning
• Ability to work across organisational boundaries, developing and maintaining multi-professional and multi-agency partnerships
• Proven leadership and service development experience.

Desirable

• Advanced management/leadership training/qualification or equivalent experience
• Proven experience of developing others through education, mentorship, coaching, teaching, assessing, presentations, publishing

Skills & Competencies
Essential

• Able to demonstrate effective communication skills at all levels i.e. strategically and locally
• Ability to manage own time and projects effectively
• Ability to commute between the various sites
• Ability to manage the requirement for frequent concentration in an unpredictable working environment

Person Specification
Qualifications & Knowledge
Essential

• Professional qualification relevant to practice area, with study to degree level
• Registered practitioner with professional body
• Full understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/audit within identified service area

Desirable

• Be qualified to deliver a mode of therapeutic intervention with clinical relevance to the role and service user population

Experience
Essential

• Evidence of sound post-registration professional practice
• Evidence of continuing professional development relevant to the professional lead area to advanced level of post-graduate diploma or equivalent knowledge /experiential learning
• Ability to work across organisational boundaries, developing and maintaining multi-professional and multi-agency partnerships
• Proven leadership and service development experience.

Desirable

• Advanced management/leadership training/qualification or equivalent experience
• Proven experience of developing others through education, mentorship, coaching, teaching, assessing, presentations, publishing

Skills & Competencies
Essential

• Able to demonstrate effective communication skills at all levels i.e. strategically and locally
• Ability to manage own time and projects effectively
• Ability to commute between the various sites
• Ability to manage the requirement for frequent concentration in an unpredictable working environment