Job overview

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, social 
isolation 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/or 
abusive histories with a wide range of vulnerabilities who have a level of co-existing complex 
needs including homelessness, substance misuse, significant risks and social exclusion and who 
at 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 (Band 
6), 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.

Working for our organisation

Join 'Team Derbyshire Healthcare' and become part of a talented, compassionate and enthusiastic workforce committed to a vision of ‘making a positive difference in people's lives’.

CQC rated us as 'GOOD’ overall, commenting on how our colleagues “treated patients with compassion and kindness” and “felt positive and proud about working for the trust.”

Benefits include:

• Commitment to flexible working where this is possible
• 27 days annual leave/year plus bank holidays, increasing to 29 days after 5 years & 33 days after 10 years’ service 
• Yearly appraisal and commitment to ongoing training
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Good maternity, paternity and adoption benefits
• Health service discounts and online benefits
• Incremental pay progression
• Free confidential employee assistance programme 24/7
• Access to our LGBT+ network, BAME Network and Christian Network
• Health and wellbeing opportunities
• Structured learning and development opportunities