Senior Criminal Justice Liaison Practitioner - London, United Kingdom - East London NHS Foundation Trust

East London NHS Foundation Trust

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London, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Are you an experienced mental health, learning disability nurse, or social worker with experience of crisis care and assessment with special interest in improving service user experience and health outcomes for vulnerable people within the Criminal Justice system?

If so, East London's Criminal Justice Liaison Service looking for a highly motivated senior practitioner to join us following a retirement, and would like to meet you to offer an opportunity to join us within what is a very interesting, varied and rewarding area of care within this Trust that has an excellent rating.

Liaison & Diversion services identify people who have health and social vulnerabilities such as mental health, learning disability, neuro-divergence, drug problems, homelessness and associated issues when they come into contact with the criminal justice system.

The successful applicant will be based within local police custody, working with police and people coming into contact with the criminal justice system when potential mental health, learning disability or other vulnerability needs are suspected and further assessment is indicated.

You will assist in appropriate and safe decision making and to identify suitable pathways for appropriate onward referral and support.

You will communicate risk and formulation of needs, liaising across both health and social care pathways-GP's Social Services and secondary services, and the criminal justice pathway
- custody, CPS, courts, probation, and prison healthcare.

This will involve your commitment to close partnership working with both statutory and voluntary sector agencies along with the commitment to working with a diverse group of individuals and often complex range of varying needs who have found themselves in a challenging and stressful situation.

The successful applicant must be able to demonstrate direct experience of working within crisis care pathways and knowledge of assessment, engagement and safety planning to a high standard.

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve

Our values are:

We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

Kindly refer to the job description and person specification that is attached to the vacancy profile