Specialist Clinical Practitioner

The postholder will provide a specialist service to the pan-London Inclusion and Involvement team, working together with NPS colleagues and service users to deliver the desistance and stabilisation under the service. The postholder will work directly with complex, high-risk personality disordered service users to assist their effective desistance, with a focus on specialist networking with community providers to improve social and employment opportunities for people who have significant barriers to reintegrating with society after prison. The postholder will take a proactive role in supporting bespoke development plans with service users and proactively developing links to community organisations based on the individuals needs. The postholder will work autonomously within professional guidelines, policies and procedures of LPP's services, and overarching objectives of LPP and the Offender Personality Disorder Pathway.,

• To work closely with the Inclusion and Involvement team in helping service users to access sources of support, including practical assistance with community resettlement, social support and meaningful occupation.
• To contribute to the day to day running of Pathway Hubs in north and central London, and to the development of new community engagement projects.
• To contribute to the development and facilitation of Hub programmes offering social, creative and skills-based activities within an overall desistance framework.
• To contribute to the evaluation of services as appropriate.
• To support service user involvement projects where necessary.
• To take a lead on networking with community providers and organisations to build meaningful relationships, to enable service users to access individualised support based on their specific needs.
• To support professionals and service users to connect with community resources.
• To hold and maintain a database of potential community options/partners.
• To support the Social Inclusion Service Lead in arranging our partner markets which bring community organisations together to share with service users what they offer and how to access their service. T
• The postholder will work within policies and procedures of LPP's services, and the overarching objectives of LPP and the Offender Personality Disorder Pathway.
  
  Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.