Team Manager - CJLDS Reconnect
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Job summary
Our Service
The Criminal Justice Liaison & Diversion Service (CJLDS) is a countywide service to Kent and Medway's police custody suites, magistrates, crown courts and wider community.CJLDS is an all age, all vulnerability service, providing liaison and diversion both inside and outside of the criminal justice system. We screen and assess individuals over the age of 10, suspected of committing a crime, to identify health and social care vulnerabilities. The aim of the service is to improve service user experience by connecting them with the right service at the right time - potentially reducing rates of reoffending and improving health and social care outcomes for the people that we serve.
We are a multidisciplinary team consisting of mental health nurses, social workers, liaison and diversion workers, apprentices and lived experience practitioners. We work closely with the police, courts, youth offending teams, probation, community mental health teams, social care providers and many more health and social care partners.
Main duties of the job
The New 'Reconnect' Function
CJLDS has recently secured funding to extend our service provision to deliver Reconnect in Kent. Reconnect is a new Liaison & Diversion function, currently being rolled out nationally. The CJLDS Reconnect sub-team will seek to screen, assess and engage potentially vulnerable individuals, pre-release from HM Prisons, chiefly HMP Elmley. The team will then support resettlement upon release, by signposting, referring or handing over to primary, secondary and third-sector health and social care services. The work will be short-term, targeted and outcome-driven; delivered by a small team of Liaison & Diversion practitioners and peer support workers. A Band 7 team manager will lead this function.
The Role
We are seeking to recruit a forward thinking, enthusiastic and skilled person to join the CJLDS team leadership structure. The role will require a self-starter, with the skills to adopt a visible leadership role in setting-up, evolving and maintaining a new service.
About us
Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.
We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people across the county.
The Trust (rated Good overall by the CQC and Outstanding for care) has 3,283 staff working in 66 buildings across 33 locations, covering an area of 1,450 square miles.
You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.
The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.
Details
Date posted
13 May 2022
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 7
Salary
£40,057 to £45,839 a year per annum
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
380-FR0085
Job locations
The Red House
Oakapple Lane
Maidstone
ME16 9NW
Employer details
Employer name
Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust
Address
The Red House
Oakapple Lane
Maidstone
ME16 9NW
Employer's website
https://www.kmpt.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)
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