Clinical Lead

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Criminal Justice Liaison and Diversion Clinical Lead. The post holder will be the Clinical Lead over our custody provision in St Anne Street, Belle Vale, Copy Lane and Wirral custody suites.

Liaison and Diversion is a process of support of people coming through the criminal justice system, and diverting people from this pathway where possible through engagement with service users with vulnerabilities. A significant part of the role is liaising with criminal justice system stakeholders and colleagues to provide advice, guidance and support., To provide strategic clinical leadership in relation to an area of specialismusing the most up to date and evidence based theory.

To undertake expert assessment, planning, implementation and evaluationof care for a specific group of service users.

To offer expert clinical advice for service users, carers, staff and otherprofessionals.

To demonstrate advanced competence in highly complex decision making,assessment and the management of clinical needs within the specialistarea of practice.

To work in partnership with service users, carers and other agencies toensure effectiveness of outcomes.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

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.