Job Description

The post holder will support individuals with any presenting need, concerns or difficulties that

might be affecting their mental health and wellbeing. The post holder will provide time limited 1:1

support to clients giving information and/or support to allow them to access a wide range of

agencies and services that can provide help and advice with for example, housing, social

isolation and exclusion, education, debt management, mental health and employment issues.

Post holders will develop links into the community and agencies to enable improved, supported

access to services. The post holder will be based within the Liaison & Diversion service within

police custody suites working with adults, children and young people with a range of

vulnerabilities who have come into contact with the Criminal Justice System.

The post holder will support clients who are typically hard to engage, to access and utilise

primary, secondary and community services in order to improve their use of resources, which is

likely to improve their mental health, social difficulties and reduce the risk of them reoffending.

The post holder will actively engage and work with individuals with forensic, traumatic and/or

abusive histories with a wide range of vulnerabilities who have a level of co-existing complex

needs including homelessness, substance misuse, significant risks and social exclusion and who

at times may present with extremely challenging behaviours.



To attend police custody suites and to carry out screening with Lead Nurses (Band

6), to give advice, and implement the delivery of the all vulnerabilities pathways

(Women, Children/ young people, veterans, sex offenders, learning disabilities,

substance misuse, people open to mental health services) for individuals where

potential vulnerabilities have been identified.



To liaise and plan alongside Criminal Justice Liaison and Diversion Nurses and an

extensive number of external agencies for the provision of assessment, disposal and

the care pathway of service users. This includes parents/carers of young people.

To communicate, provide, and receive complex, sensitive and at times contentious

information where skills of, motivational, joint decision making, empathy, advisory



and signposting are required, often in situations where there are barriers to

understanding and high stress levels, e.g. court rooms and police custody settings



The postholder will manage a caseload of Criminal Justice Service users with

oversight from registered clinicians in the team; working autonomously on a daily

basis, assessing, planning and implementing interventions appropriate to the

individual's needs. This is accomplished through regular guidance and supervision

from a relevant AHP or nursing professional with the use of caseload discussion and

immediate escalation where deemed necessary.



Join 'Team Derbyshire Healthcare' and become part of a talented, compassionate and enthusiastic workforce committed to a vision of 'making a positive difference in people's lives'.



CQC rated us as 'GOOD' overall, commenting on how our colleagues "treated patients with compassion and kindness" and "felt positive and proud about working for the trust."

Benefits include:

Commitment to flexible working where this is possible



27 days annual leave/year plus bank holidays, increasing to 29 days after 5 years & 33 days after 10 years' service



Yearly appraisal and commitment to ongoing training



Generous NHS pension scheme



Good maternity, paternity and adoption benefits



Health service discounts and online benefits



Incremental pay progression



Free confidential employee assistance programme 24/7



Access to our LGBT+ network, BAME Network and Christian Network



Health and wellbeing opportunities



Structured learning and development opportunities



With the service users consent (or where there is a public duty to safeguard the

individual or others) to provide the police custody with relevant verbal/ written

information pertinent to the individual in a timely manner to support the criminal justice

disposal and to manage risk.

To consistently manage your own time and planning your work load in advance. To have knowledge and an understanding around psychosocial interventions to be

able to support and signpost to self-harm reduction/ minimization strategies, problem

solving, behavioiural interventions as negotiated with individual service users.



To educate and give information to service users and others in the care of the service

users in issues related to safeguarding and social issues including benefits, housing

and voluntary support services.

To assess and act upon immediate risk of danger to service users and/ or others

when lone working in the community.

To have professional responsibility for promoting equality, diversity and rights

To aid in the process of referrals of clients between agencies and other services.

To present and promote the service in both informal and formal settings, as well as to

other service user related services/ organisations.

To develop and deliver preventative work in the community building a network of

stakeholders to create awareness and progression of the service.

To be allocated a specific pathway within the service and to maintain and develop

links with stake holders in the community. To take the lead on ensure the signposting

and referrals process are kept up to date and communicating new and developing

services within that pathway to the team.