Liaison and Diversion Mental Health Practitioner - Liverpool, United Kingdom - Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
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Liverpool, United Kingdom

4 weeks ago

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Merseyside Liaison and Diversion Mental Health Practitioner

An exciting opportunity has arisen for Mental Health Practitioners to join the Merseyside Liaison and Diversion Service providing timely access to assessments within Liverpool and Wirral Magistrates court and Liverpool and Wirral custody suites

We have 2 full time posts working long days hours across a 7 day working week

Short listing planned for 13th Dec 2023

Interviews planned for 18th Dec 2023


Liaison and diversion is a process whereby people of all ages with mental health problems, learning disabilities, substance misuse problems and other vulnerabilities are identified and assessed as early as possible as they pass through the youth and adult criminal justice systems.

You will be expected to work across courts systems and support custody environments as well as the wider mental health system.

You will support the offender health agenda within this role.

You will be a registered practitioner within mental health (

Allied Health Professions:
Mental Health Nurse; Social Worker; Occupational Therapist; Learning disability Nurse) with demonstrable extensive post registration experience. You will have experience in undertaking specialist mental health assessments and have a sound knowledge of the Mental Health Act/Capacity Act and criminal justice systems


Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 11 million people.


We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services.

Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.


At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient.

We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together.

We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

To understand the full duties of this new role please refer to the specific job outline attached.


Please ensure that you evidence in your supporting information how you meet the person specification for both the generic and the specific job outlines.

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