Outreach Practitioner

1. Working in a Health and Justice (H&J) Outreach service within Sussex, dependent on skills and service need.2. Delivering a high quality clinical service to patients and their families.3. Managing complex assessments in the Outreach service, and possible in custody and courts.4. Responsible for clinical and caseload supervision of other team members where identified.5. The post holder will be responsible for providing the practitioner process in Health and Justice.6. Diverting and liaising with multiple criminal justice agencies, police and other partners.7. Identify, assess and refer people of all ages with a wide range of mental health, learning disability, substance misuse and/or social vulnerabilities when they first come into contact with the youth and adult criminal justice systems on suspicion of having committed a crime.8. When a person is assessed as having single or multiple vulnerabilities, they will be referred to the appropriate treatment or support service and an appropriate package of care and/or support will be instigated.9. Accurate, timely information on the person will be shared with police and the courts (with an individuals consent where necessary) to ensure that any charging, sentencing or disposal decisions are based upon an authoritative assessment of their mental health, any learning disability and whether they have a substance misuse issue.10. Health and Justice services support the most appropriate outcome for those individuals. For many this contact with criminal justice agencies will be the first time they will have been assessed and diagnosed.