Advanced Community Access Practitioner

We are looking for a highly motivated, confident Community Access Practitioner who has a strong interest in prison work.
The post will involve working with adult males within HMP Full Sutton or Millsike who present with risky behaviours and display signs of mental health difficulties.
The post holder will be working within our growing group of forensic services which is closely aligned to our in-patient services and wider Humber & North Yorkshire Specialist Provider Collaborative.
This is a great opportunity to be involved with new partnerships within the prisons; including Tees Esk and Wear Valley NHS Foundation Trust as the lead provider delivering the mental health element alongside Rethink Mental Illness., Community Access Practitioner will oversee prisoner pathways from reception into the prison estate through to release. The role is responsible for forging working alliances with local inpatient and community partners to develop effective reintegration pathways for patients.
The Community Access Practitioner will develop strong therapeutic working relationships with service users, offering consistent engagement from initial referral to an identified Mental Health/LD provision.
The Community Access Practitioner will develop robust working relationships with local and partner agencies and services across the statutory, voluntary, and independent sectors i.e., MAPPA, Private Providers and Local Authority Departments.
The post holder will deliver high quality care to a caseload of complex mental health and learning disability offenders as part of a liaison and an in-reach provision.
The post holder will also be working within our growing group of forensic services which is closely aligned to our in-patient services and wider Humber & North Yorkshire Specialist Provider Collaborative., This post will be subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period where applicable, further details would be included within any offer letter.
Where operationally feasible the Trust supports agile working, there is an expectation of attendance of 1 day per week at a Trust site as a minimum operationally. Unless specifically stated in the advert that a role will have home as the base of work, all roles will have the option to work from a Trust base if remote working is not for you.
If required for the post the ability to commute within the Trusts geographical area with access to the appropriate means of transport would be essential.
We will apply for a Disclosure from the Disclosure & Barring Service for the successful candidate if this is required for the post. Anyone applying for a position which involves a regulated activity will require an enhanced Disclosure & Barring check and that the disclosure will, where appropriate to the role, include information against the Independent Safeguarding Authority barred lists for working with children or working with adults or both.
IMPORTANT: Should your application be successfully shortlisted, you will be contacted to attend an interview electronically to the email address provided at the time of the application. It is important therefore, that you CHECK YOUR EMAILS/NHS JOBS ACCOUNT on a regular basis.
If you are not contacted by the Trust within six weeks of the closing date of the vacancy, your application will have been unsuccessful on this occasion. We would however like to thank you for the interest you have shown in the Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust.
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