Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
Band 7 Criminal Justice Senior Practitioner-Swindon
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Senior Practitioner
AWP is seeking a compassionate Senior Practitioner to provide clinical leadership within our Integrated Non-Custodial Service.
Working across police custody, courts and community settings, you will lead the Liaison and Diversion pathway, identifying and supporting people with mental health needs, neurodivergence, learning disabilities, substance misuse issues and other vulnerabilities at their first contact with the criminal justice system. You will provide day-to-day clinical leadership and supervision to a multidisciplinary team while maintaining a clinical caseload. You will oversee trauma-informed screening, assessment, risk management, safeguarding and onward referral, ensuring safe, evidence-based and person-centred practice. Working with police, courts, probation, health, social care and voluntary-sector partners, you will strengthen pathways and continuity of care.
You will be a Registered Mental Health Nurse or registered Social Worker with current professional registration, relevant post-registration experience and knowledge of legislation. You will have experience of complex assessment, care planning, clinical supervision and multi-agency working, supported by strong communication, leadership and analytical skills. Flexibility and frequent travel are required. If you share our PRIDE values and are committed to outstanding care for vulnerable people, we would be delighted to hear from you.
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Responsibilities
- Provide day-to-day clinical leadership and oversight of the liaison and diversion pathway. This will include ensuring we have the right processes in place that adhere to safe governance principles and policy.
- Offer clinical supervision and managerial supervision to the Intensive team and other members of the MDT as required.
- Develop and disseminate packages of care which may include a variety of evidenced based interventions that work with women.
- Hold a clinical caseload as appropriate, with adherence to professional registration as well as attending your own clinical supervision.
- Provide first line support for staff in managing clinical risk and safeguarding concerns ensuring appropriate escalation and multi-agency collaboration.
- Work closely with Team Managers to support effective triage, assessment and allocation of referrals.
About Us
We are the lead provider of healthcare for people with serious mental illness, learning disabilities and autism across Bath and North East Somerset (BaNES), Swindon and Wiltshire, and Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.
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We aim to provide High Quality, Compassionate Care everywhere, every day. This means our services will be safe, clinically effective and provide a positive all round experience for our patients, families and carers. And we believe passionately in treating everyone with kindness, respect and empathy.
Key to this is providing a supportive and safe environment for our 4,000 staff where we all feel welcome and able to do the best we can for those we support. Our staff and teams work incredibly hard delivering services across more than 90 locations, covering 2,200 miles, to more than 1.8 million people.
At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.
Contact
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Jane Anderson
- Job title: Portfolio Manager
- Email address: jane.anderson12@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 07825256866
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