Senior Practitioner- Community Mental Health - Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom - Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

Description

An exciting opportunity has become available for a qualified Band 6 Mental Health Nurse to join Cambridgeshire Liaison and Diversion Service, who support people with vulnerabilities, of all ages who find themselves in the criminal justice system.

Practitioners are based in courts and police custody units across the county.

Their role is to screen and assess service users of all ages and where appropriate divert them out of the criminal justice system where there are no public protection issues.

This may also include visiting rural areas to ensure that there is an equitable service for all service users to access.

The role will include working in host environments, working at times autonomously from the main team but with the support from police, court and probation staff.

Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health & social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health & wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting & empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services not only via inpatient and primary care setting but also with the community.

These services include Children, Adult & Older Peoples mental & physical health, Forensic & Specialist mental health, Learning Disabilities, Primary Care & Liaison psychiatry, Substance misuse, Social care, Research & Development.

As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people & members of our ethnic minorities & LGBTQ+ communities.

They will also help with support and advise partners that the team work closely with in the management of risk while in custody.

NMC Professional Registration or equivalent
Post registration training relevant to the service area
Evidence of continuing professional development

Experience of working in mental health settings as well as working with service users will a range of vulnerabilities such as drug and alcohol, homelessness and physical health issues
Experience of conducting clinical assessments including risk assessments
Experience of supervising junior staff

Understanding of mental health challenges
Computer / IT skills
Evidence of Continuing professional development
Working knowledge of the Mental Health Act (1983 / 2007) ? Working knowledge of Mental Capacity Act and Children Act
A working Knowledge of Nationally approved assessment and screening tools for all age groups with mental health and other vulnerabilities such as homelessness, physical health, drug and alcohol misuse
A good working knowledge of youth and criminal justice systems

Routine and regular use of computer
Post holder must be able to travel across all Trust and criminal justice sites across Peterborough and Cambridgeshire therefore must be independently mobile

Be able to work flexibly and within the rota of a service which delivers an 8-8 service seven days a week.

Demonstrable commitment to continuing professional development
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust