Job Title: Support, Time & Recovery Worker
Agency: Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust
Location: Berkshire, United Kingdom, Winchester
Salary/Rate: 27,485 – £ 30,162 / Year

Job Summary

We are looking for you to join our Hampshire Liaison and Diversion team. You will have a keen interest in Liaison and Diversion and a passion for supporting our service users as they make their way through police custody, court, and up to prison.

We are a dynamic, people-centred team who are looking for someone who is passionate about health outcomes for those making their way through the criminal justice system.

With a reputation for excellence, our service is committed to improving the health of our clients, identifying care pathways, and reducing reoffending.

Recognised with several awards, including a Thames Valley/Hampshire Constabulary Police Commendation, Berkshire Healthcare ‘Team of the Year’, and runner-up for the Howard League for Penal Reform ‘Liaison and Diversion Service of the Year’.

We value our employees and put people first. We achieved an ‘Outstanding’ rating overall in our latest CQC inspection, which found that: ‘Managers across Berkshire Healthcare promoted a positive culture that supported and valued staff, creating a sense of common purpose based on shared values.’

We operate across Hampshire, but this post is predominantly based in the community, working with those who have been released from HMP Winchester, working for Berkshire Healthcare NHS Trust.

Main duties of the job

• Monday – Friday 9am-5pm, based primarily within the community or the prison settings, there may be times you are required to step into court and custody, too.

• You will support people who are typically hard to engage, you will talk to families and friends, to gain a holistic understanding of the client’s circumstances and facilitate their access to support services, providing individualised support with practical problems or difficulties that may be affecting their health and wellbeing.

• An empathetic advocate of service users, you will promote their rights and responsibilities, building a rapport, whilst maintaining appropriate and transparent boundaries. You will be emotionally resilient, able to cope with people potentially displaying challenging behaviour and distressing situations

• To provide help and advice to service users that includes housing, social isolation and exclusion, education, debt management, and employment problems, etc.

• To provide the court with written and verbal information about the individual in a timely fashion to inform the disposal

• To work closely and build links with all referring agencies within the custody suite, court, and probation, acting as a single point of contact for health

• To work autonomously, with the ability to organise and manage own time according to delegated workload

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