Custody Lead - Boston, United Kingdom - Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

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Boston, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

A unique opportunity has arisen within the Criminal Justice & Liaison & Diversion (CJLD) service, for a Registered Nurse, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist, Paramedic or Speech and Language Therapist OR those with specialist knowledge and relevant mental health experience to work as part of our Custody service.

You must be educated to degree level in an area particularly relevant to mental health and/or criminal justice processes.

As a key member of CJLD you will be part of service development and will have opportunities to work across the CJLD pathways (custody and courts) enhancing your skills and knowledge in the health and justice arena.

CJLD provides high quality mental health and vulnerability screening and specialist assessment to people of all ages who have become involved in the criminal justice system.

The base for this post is Boston Custody suite, outreaching to Skegness custody suite. The practitioner will be expected to travel between the two sites depending upon service need.

You will have knowledge of both the criminal justice and mental health systems, and experience of working with people who are at risk of poor health and social care outcomes.

Closing date 13/12/23

Interview date to be arranged (likely first week Jan 24)

This is a fixed term 12 month contract or a 12 month secondment opportunity

Please refer to Job Description and Person Specification for full details.

You will have meticulous attention to detail in gathering and recording health, social circumstances, and risk information, sometimes under pressure.

You will be able to develop clear risk management plans, and ensure safe care and treatment pathways for the vulnerable people you assess as they leave custody, whether remanded to court, or returning to potentially complex situations in the community.

Your written assessments will effectively support agencies to understand and respond to the assessed person's needs appropriately, including advising on appropriate disposals.

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire.

Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England.

We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall.

In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive.

We're really proud of this

We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions.

We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

To act as L&D custody lead when on shift across policy custody suites and magistrates' courts and carry out assessments on complex and high-risk individuals providing advice where a potential vulnerability has been identified.

To be the senior point of escalation for L&D practitioners to resolve complex and high-risk presentations.

To act as a point of contact for police, probation, LPFT and other agencies to escalate complex and high-risk issues.

To ensure any concerns identified in the L&D pathway during shift are escalated to the Team Manager in a timely fashion.

To ensure the workflow during each shift is manageable and that all tasks are allocated according to need.

To ensure that clinical systems are updated and completed as per LPFT policy during each shift and that data is recorded as service requirements.

To ensure L&D provide the police and magistrates courts with written information pertaining to the person in a timely fashion to inform disposal.

To work closely and build links with all referring agencies within the custody suites, magistrates.

courts and probation acting as a single point of contact for health.

To address the courts in person, when necessary, to advise the court in the disposal and

care pathway of a particular case

To make recommendations to the CPS/Police or magistrates courts whether the criminal justice

system remains involved or if diversion is indicated.

To build a good working knowledge of the MHA in relation to the police, magistrates courts and

criminal justice system

Where diversion is indicated, to facilitate MHA assessments at the police station or magistrates.

courts in conjunction with the local authority Approved Mental Health Practitioner Service

To ensure referrals to the prison in-reach teams are made by L&D where custody is indicated ensuring appropriate information is received along the c