Job summary
- Main area
- Forensic & Speciailist Service Line - Criminal Justice Liaison & Diversion Service
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 380-FR0595
- Employer
- Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Red House
- Town
- Countywide
- Salary
- £27,485 - £30,162 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 24/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Liaison and Diversion Practitioner
Band 4
The CQC rates us as an Outstanding organisation for Caring with an overall rating of Good
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT) offer a range of ongoing benefits to our valued workforce across the Trust. From an active health and wellbeing programme to regular recognition events, we work hard to provide varied benefits that make a difference to your work-life balance.
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you.
Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
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Job overview
Are you looking for an exciting and dynamic role in Criminal Justice that will give you the opportunity to engage and support service users who have a range of varying vulnerabilities and needs. If so, we are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic and conscientious person to the role of Liaison and Diversion Practitioner (LDP) within Liaison, Diversion and Reconnect (LD&R).
LD&R is a countywide service to Kent and Medway’s Police custody suites, Magistrates, Crown Courts, Prisons and the wider community. This is an exciting opportunity to join a thriving service with an excellent reputation for service user care and stakeholder engagement.
The post holder must hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car/vehicle to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).
Main duties of the job
As an LDP you will be screening, signposting and supporting individuals in Police custody suites and Kent Prisons, identifying health and social vulnerabilities that may be having a negative impact on health and well-being. You will also form part of the LD&R Support, Time, Recovery (STR) function in the community (based at the Red House), supporting aftercare for clients who are involved in the criminal justice system.
Working for our organisation
Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.
We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.
Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.
We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.
You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.
The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.
Our strategy
Our mission is what we set out to do every day
We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people
Our vision is where we want to be in the future
To provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
A full and comprehensive local induction program within all the areas of practice will be provided.
The successful applicant will need to work flexibly to serve our custody suites, Prisons and community settings in response to service need throughout the county. Therefore, an ability to travel and be based in different environments across a wide geographical area in a timely manner is essential.
Please note that due to the custody/prison environments, this role is subject to full vetting by Kent Police/HMP.
Telephone contact with LD&R Team Manager for an informal conversation about the position, prior to application, is encouraged.
Please see the job description for full details.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NVQ level 4 or relevant qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working to address the health & social care needs of service users
- Experience of working within a multi disciplinary team
- Experience of working and liaising with other partnership agencies
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with offenders
Skills and knowledge
Essential criteria
- Problem solving skills
- Excellent written communication skills
Desirable criteria
- Team working skills within a disciplinary group
- Evidence of sustained enthusiasm for learning and development
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of health and social care services and provisions
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of the social care needs of people
- Knowledge of the policies and guidance underpinning the provision of services to people with mental illness
- Knowledge of the welfare and benefits system
- Knowledge of the types of resource available in the community to patients of the Forensic Service
- Knowledge of Adult Protection Procedures
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- David Barker
- Job title
- Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0800 197 5542
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