South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust • Croydon CR0 2PR
About this role
We are looking for an enthusiastic and proactive forensic care coordinator to join our community forensic team based at Queens Resource Centre in Croydon. The forensic community team aims to provide assessment, treatment, rehabilitation and aftercare to those service users with a mental disorder and associated offending behaviour. The level of service involvement will be determined by a combination of a service user's current mental health, historical factors, the nature of offending behaviour and the degree of risk posed, as well as the specific criteria of the local service.
To provide care coordination and case management to defined caseload of service users with offending history within the framework of the Care Programme Approach (CPA).
To care co-ordinate mentally disordered offenders in the least restrictive
To oversee/monitor, and coordinate the discharge of mentally disordered offenders from secure forensic inpatient settings.
To ensure the safe and sustainable transition of service user to the community from secure
Care and support for patients requiring specialist interventions to address mental health and criminogenic needs, and to reduce the risk of relapse and reoffending.
To provide consultation and training to local mental health teams and external
To safely manage the transition from forensic community services to general adult community services.
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) provide the widest range of NHS mental health services in the UK as well as substance misuse services for people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol. We work closely with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London and are part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre. There are very few organisations in the world that have such wide-ranging capabilities working with mental illness. Our scope is unique because it is built on three major foundations: care and treatment, science and research, and training.
SLaM employ around 5000 staff and serve a local population of 1.1 million people. We have more than 230 services including inpatient wards, outpatient and community services. Currently, provide inpatient care for approximately 5,300 people each year and treat more than 45,000 patients in the community in Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark; as well as substance misuse services for residents of Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich.
The Forensic Community Service aims to provide assessment, treatment, rehabilitation and aftercare to those service users with a mental disorder and associated offending behaviour. The level of service involvement will be determined by a combination of a service user’s current mental health, historical factors, the nature of offending behaviour and the degree of risk posed, as well as the specific criteria of the local service.
- To provide care coordination and case management to defined caseload of service users with offending history within the framework of the Care Programme Approach (CPA).
- To care co-ordinate mentally disordered offenders in the least restrictive setting.
- To oversee/monitor and coordinate the discharge of mentally disordered offenders from secure forensic inpatient settings.
- To ensure the safe and sustainable transition of service user to the community from secure care.
- Care and support for patients requiring specialist interventions to address mental health and criminogenic needs, and to reduce the risk of relapse and reoffending.
- To provide consultation and training to local mental health teams and external agencies.
- To safely manage the transition from forensic community services to general adult community services.
This advert closes on Monday 11 May 2026