Prison Liaison practitioner (Clinical)

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Hellingly; Sur place; GBP 45 000 - 65 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join the Forensic Health Services team. You will provide expert clinical advice and support to prison mental health services and secure inpatient pathways across Sussex, Kent and Surrey.

The role involves assessing and reviewing patients within prison and secure services, delivering high-level clinical oversight, and shaping safe transfer of men to secure inpatient care in collaboration with

Qualifications

• Experienced in forensic mental health settings.
• Ability to provide expert clinical advice in prison environments.
• Experience coordinating care across multiple sites.

Responsabilités

• Provide expert clinical oversight to prison mental health teams.
• Support safe transfer of men to secure inpatient care.
• Collaborate with health services across Sussex, Kent and Surrey.

Connaissances

Advanced clinical practitioner

Prison healthcare

Clinical assessment

Formation

Advanced Clinical Practitioner qualification

Description du poste

We are seeking an experienced and confident advanced clinical practitioner to join our Trust and Provider Collaborative secure and forensic patient flow and bed management team. Working across Sussex, Kent and Surrey, and closely with prison healthcare services, this role will support the effective identification, clinical review and timely admission of men requiring transfer from prison to secure inpatient care. Based within secure services and working into the male prison estate, including HMP Lewes, HMP Wandsworth and HMP Elmley, the post holder will provide expert clinical advice, oversight and support to prison mental health teams and secure inpatient services. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to safe, coordinated pathways for men with complex mental health needs while working collaboratively across a specialist regional network

Based within the Forensic Healthcare Services and providing clinical support to teams in prison healthcare within male prisons and secure inpatient teams this post provides expert advanced level clinical expertise and support to men awaiting transfer to secure services from prison and the clinical teams responsible for their care. This requires the post holder to assess and review patients using advanced level clinical skills whilst in prison and in secure services in an unpredictable environment. The post holder does not provide treatment directly but provides expertise to prison based mental health services.

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health, learning disability and neurodevelopmental services across diverse coastal, rural and urban communities, with strong links to partners across health, social care, probation and criminal justice. Within Forensic Health Services, you will be joining committed multidisciplinary teams and senior leaders who want the psychological professions to be visible, valued and influential in improving care. Together, we are working to strengthen reflective, compassionate and inclusive approaches for people who may present with complex mental health needs, offending histories, trauma and risk.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Rosalind Green Job title: Associate Clinical Director Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07341737674

Debbie Barrington-Smith

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