Prison Liaison Practitioner

• Advanced Clinical Assessment: Apply expert, high-level clinical skills to assess and review men in prison awaiting secure inpatient admission, evaluating their suitability and urgent care needs in dynamic environments.
• Specialist Clinical Consultation: Offer expert practitioner advice and guidance to prison-based mental health services to optimize ongoing care while hospital transfer is arranged.
• Joint Oversight & Patient Flow: Work alongside your team counterpart to maintain joint clinical oversight of the waiting list for hospital transfers, ensuring streamlined referral management across the region.
• Team Cover & Continuity: Function as part of a small, supportive unit, providing mutual cover to ensure uninterrupted service delivery across Kent, Surrey, and Sussex.
• Multi-Agency Collaboration: Partner closely with prison healthcare providers, forensic inpatient teams, NHS collaboratives, and probation services to ensure seamless transitions and align risk management.
• Clinical Governance & Records: Maintain accurate, timely, and confidential clinical documentation in line with Trust governance, professional standards, and confidentiality guidelines.
• The post holder does not provide treatment directly but provides expertise to prison based mental health services.

Essential

• Registered Nurse mental health, Registered Nurse Learning Disability Level 1 OR Registered allied health professional or social worker.
• Registration with relevant professional body, NMC, HCPC or SWE
• Evidence of significant relevant professional development

Essential

• Substantial evidence of recent relevant clinical. Practice in Forensic Mental Health or prison healthcare.
• Advanced level expert knowledge of clinical practice and multidisciplinary team working in mental health
• Experience of working with trauma informed principles of practice.
• Experience of working in specialist forensic or prison mental healthcare