Liaison and Diversion Engagement Worker: Sponsorship Available

Job summary

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, socialisolation 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/orabusive histories with a wide range of vulnerabilities who have a level of co-existing complexneeds including homelessness, substance misuse, significant risks and social exclusion and whoat times may present with extremely challenging behaviours.

Main duties of the job

To attend police custody suites and to carry out screening with Lead Nurses (Band6), 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.