Liaison and Diversion Specialist Practitioner/ Team Leader

Overview

A Vacancy at Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust. The Liaison & Diversion service is not a mental health team. It operates as an All Age (from age of criminal responsibility – 10yrs), all Vulnerability model based on the National Liaison & Diversion operating model produced by NHS England.

Key Responsibilities

The successful candidate will work closely with the Team Manager providing day-to-day supervision and support to the Liaison & Diversion Staff. Be a professionally registered practitioner to work within the Criminal Justice Pathway, providing support to practitioners in the triage assessment of people with multiple and often complex health, non-acute mental health and social needs/vulnerabilities. The Liaison & Diversion service will provide triage, identify unmet needs and vulnerabilities and offer liaison, onward referral and guidance for persons who have come to the attention of the Criminal Justice Agencies. Whilst providing information to key criminal justice decision makers. The SP will assist the Practitioners to triage those individuals identified via a screening process who require further input in respect of different populations, for example, people with a learning disability, non-acute mental health and social care presentation or children and young people. The SP will be able to gather pertinent information from a variety of sources including service users, carers, their families and other service providers.

Qualifications

The Liaison and Diversion Team Leader/Specialist Practitioner is someone with a clinical qualification and experience and knowledge of Liaison and Diversion and/or with specialist knowledge and experience of working with groups likely to be disadvantaged by their involvement in the justice system. The Liaison and Diversion Specialist Practitioner (SP) is someone with a registered qualification and experience and knowledge of Liaison and Diversion and/or with specialist knowledge and experience of working with groups likely to be disadvantaged by their involvement in the justice system.

Benefits and Working Conditions

We support flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours and flexi-time. LSCFT values diversity and inclusion, recognising that talent from varied backgrounds creates a flexible, creative, and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from all, regardless of age, disability (including those with experience of accessing or caring for someone who has accessed mental health or learning disability services), ethnicity, gender, religion, belief, or sexual orientation. Our aim is to reflect the communities we serve, so we particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups.