Criminal Justice Liaison and Diversion Mental Health Practitioner

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Criminal Justice Liaison and Diversion Service Working across offender health, liaison and diversion services in court and custody. We are currently recruiting for Mental Health Practitioners (MHP) and colleagues who do not have the required 2 years post registration experience but have completed their perceptorship or equivalent are encouraged to apply and a band 5 to 6 development post will be considered.

CJLDT have a total of 11 criminal justice bases plus our trust and community bases.

You will work across courts systems and support custody environments as well as the wider mental health system. You will support the offender health agenda within this role

Short Listing planned for 18th April 2023

Interview planned for 26th April 2023

Main duties of the job

CJLDT is an integral part of the 24/7 Urgent Care Model and this is a great opportunity to support people of all ages with mental health problems, learning disabilities, substance misuse problems and other vulnerabilities who are identified and assessed as early as possible as they pass through the youth and adult criminal justice systems.

The role is to work specifically in CJL&D, within our service we have custody, courts, outreach and reconnect. This role is around assessment of mental health, formulation of care and needs and liaison and diversion for all people who come into contact with our service. We assess people with all vulnerabilities. The role is about proactive engagement to improve the health outcomes for all.

About us

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 11 million people.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Job description Job responsibilities

To understand the full duties of this new role please refer to the specific job outline attached.

Please ensure that you evidence in your supporting information how you meet the person specification for both the generic and the specific job outlines.

Please note, this post is subject to Level 3 Police Vetting Clearance (Outcome determined by Merseyside Police)

If you are shortlisted we encourage all applicants to arrange an informal conversation with the team before attending for interview. You can also contact the team prior to submitting an application if you require any further information.

Person Specification Qualification Essential

• Appropriate professional qualification including RMN , Social worker or Occupational Therapist
• Evidence of post registration study / continuing professional development e.g. Mentorship in Practice

Desirable

• Working towards master level education

Experience Essential

• Minimum of 2 years post registration experience in mental health.
• Evidence of leadership and management skills.
• Evidence of experience of managing cases & case loads
• Evidence of supervising staff
• Ability to work autonomously across the organisation/boundaries and with other agencies
• Experience of working in partnership with other agencies and service users and carers
• Experience of audit/research and working knowledge of clinical governance.
• Experience in change management and policy formulation.
• Experience of using Incident Reporting Systems e.g. DATIX
• Experience of undertaking and involvement in Serious Untoward Incident Reviews
• Evidence of experience of working with a range of people with mental health problems in a variety of health care settings.

Skills Essential

• oEvidence of leadership and management skills.
• Able to communicate effectively both verbally and non-verbally.
• Being responsive and flexible, seeing change as an opportunity to improve services
• Ability to lead the process of standard setting and audit
• Ability to work within a divisional management team, be able to generate own workload and ability to work to strict deadlines.
• Ability to build purposeful relationships with a range of both internal and external to the organisation
• Ability to build purposeful relationships with a range of both internal and external to the organisation
• Demonstrate knowledge of CPA ECC guidelines
• Demonstrate knowledge in the concepts of mentorship, preceptorship and supervision and ability to provide education and supervision to junior staff
• Demonstrate a good knowledge of professional Codes of Conduct and Staffs' responsibility to identify gaps in their knowledge base.

Desirable

• oEvidence of supervising staff.
• Evidence of experience of working with a range of people with mental health problems in a variety of health care settings.

Personal Attributes Essential

• oAble to communicate effectively both verbally and non-verbally.
• Professional attitude.
• Possess excellent listening and negotiation skills and leadership skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and organisational skills.
• The ability to lead change management
• Excellent oral and written skills

Desirable

• oBeing responsive and flexible, seeing change as an opportunity to improve services

Other Essential

• On going post-registration development
• Able to demonstrate flexibility in working hours.

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