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Specialist Liaison & Diversion Practitioner
NHS
Maidstone
On-site
GBP 30,000 - 42,000
Full time
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Job summary
Join a leading NHS organization in Kent as a Specialist Liaison and Diversion Practitioner. This role will engage with diverse clients within the Criminal Justice System, focusing on risk assessment and support initiatives. You'll collaborate with healthcare professionals to enhance the well-being of service users and drive positive change.
Benefits
Qualifications
- Experience working in community mental health required.
- Extensive clinical experience including individual and group work is important.
- Understanding of legislation relating to Mental Health Care is essential.
Responsibilities
- Provide assessments and support for individuals in the Criminal Justice System.
- Work collaboratively with various professionals across health, justice, and social care.
- Conduct risk assessments and manage complex needs of service users.
Skills
Education
Job description
Go back Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust
The closing date is 30 June 2025
Would you like a fascinating, fast moving and fulfilling role?
If the answer is yes, then we are seeking to recruit an experienced Mental Health Nurse,Social Worker,or Occupational Therapist to join our established, successful and dynamic team as we consolidate and develop Liaison and Diversion services in police custody suites, courts and prisons across Kent and Medway.
Work with enthusiastic and passionate colleagues to provide an all age, all vulnerabilities service to clients in the Criminal Justice System. Make a real difference to people's lives by identifying their support needs and encouraging them to engage with services that can help them.
Collaborate with a range of professionals across health, justice and social care to reduce reoffending and support safer communities.
The role of a Specialist Liaison and Diversion Practitioner (SLDP) is both an interesting and challenging one, where you will experience all aspects of the criminal justice system.
We are looking for forward thinking and enthusiastic practitioners, with a keen eye for risk assessment and formulation to respond to referrals from within the criminal justice system and support individuals with identified health or social vulnerabilities. You will also have the opportunity to provide community support and being involved in outreach initiatives.
- The successful candidate will work in Police Custody Suites, Courts, Prisons and varying community locations across Kent and Medway so some experience of liaison, crisis intervention or forensic services would be an advantage. Youwill be working with people who experience mental health needs, learning disabilities, communication difficulties, drug and alcohol misuse and other health and social vulnerabilities.
- Our SLDP's do not hold caseload's and their work is aimed at point-in-time assessment, liaison and diversion. These crucial assessments will be used to inform the most appropriate and robust care pathways.
- In essence, ourSLDP's provide the crucial link between a variety of stakeholders and can make a real difference to the outcome of service users' experiences in the criminal justice system.
Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.
We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We arerated Good overall by the CQC.
Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.
We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.
You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.
The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.
Our mission is what we set out to do every dayWe deliver brilliant care through brilliant people
Our vision is where we want to be in the futureTo provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.
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This role requires close partnership working with both statutory and voluntary sector agencies and a commitment to working with a complex and diverse range of individuals with varying needs.
The post holder must hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car/vehicle to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).
Please see the attached job description for full details on the role's responsibilities and person specification.
- Member of a professional body
- A degree or equivalent qualification/experience at post registration level
- Experience of working within community mental health
- Extensive clinical experience including both individual and group work
- Understanding and expertise in the principles of risk assessment and risk management
- Post registration experience of working within a relevant setting
- Detailed knowledge of the relevant legislation procedures and policies relating to Mental Health Care ie CPA, Mental Capacity Act
- Experience of the criminal justice system
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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