Job summary
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 perceptorshipor 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
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 24/7 Urgent Care Model forms the urgent care pathway within Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust. The 24/7 Urgent Care hub provides mental health assessment, intensive community interventions, advice, support and guidance twenty four hours, seven days a week across several access points for individuals presenting in crisis. This service has brought all urgent care teams together to create one central hub and thus diverts service users away from blue light services and affords them the right access to the right care at the right time in the most appropriate environment. This includes 24/7 self-referral access to a mental health assessment by a mental health professional via a telephone line which reduces long waiting times in AED and contact with other emergency services. The components which are part of the 24/7 Urgent Care Model include Mental Health Liaison, Criminal Justice Liaison Teams, Street Triage Cars, 24/7 Urgent Care Hub, Clinical Decision Units and Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Teams.
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.
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 or experience at Degree Level e.g. RMN, AHP, Social Worker
- 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.
Person Specification
Qualification
Essential
- Appropriate professional qualification or experience at Degree Level e.g. RMN, AHP, Social Worker
- 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.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
