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Community Link worker (Liaison and Diversion) - North and Central London
Liaison and Diversion
Full time, Permanent 37 hours per week - evening and weekend work required.
Please note - you will not be based at N15 6HR, this is our service location.
Waythrough are delighted to be recruiting for 3 Community Link Workers within our newly created Liaison and Diversion services across North and Central London. Working within a team you will predominantly managing and working with a male only cohort. The purpose of this role to work within a multi-disciplinary team to provide information, advice and guidance, referral and direct individual support to enable access to support services for adults, children and young people identified through custody-based triage as having mental ill health, learning disability or substance misuse issues to promote mental and physical wellbeing.
People accessing our services may have varying mental health disorders, specialist rehabilitation needs and may come to our services from courts and prisons. This also includes provision for people with a learning disability and autistic people that fall within the auspices of eligibility for forensic mental health services.
This will be a key role within the Liaison and Diversion Services multi-disciplinary team within South London, working in close partnership with colleagues from the North London Forensic Collaborative and South London Partnership (NHS), working with vulnerable adults with multiple needs requiring advocation and support to access any required services.
The successful candidate will be required to be travel across the North and Central London area, all locations are accessible via public transport, we do not provide parking. You will be office based with a mix of outreach work. This potentially includes working in police stations and custody suites, therefore future vetting may be required within this role.
Your responsibilities include but not limited too:
Provide needs led, person-centred and care planned support to adults, children and young people post triage and assessment, facilitating access to key support services to address individual needs. Provide effective support through working collaboratively within the wider service and with clients, their families, health and social care services and criminal justice partners to ensure positive outcomes for clientsBuild a holistic and trusting relationship with the clients and use active strategies to facilitate change, including communicating empathy, developing relationships, identifying different types of support, and reducing conflict.Engage individuals with peer support and promote engagement with those with lived experience.
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Who are we
Waythrough launched in October following the merger of Humankind and Richmond Fellowship. Our vision is to break down the barriers that stop people getting the support they need to live a life they value. We tackle poverty and disadvantage in communities, through mental health, drug and alcohol, housing and related support.
We have almost services around England and nearly 3, amazing staff and volunteers who run them. Every year our services support around , people.
Bringing together two big organisations is not a small task and itll take a while to fully integrate our systems, processes and approaches. Thats why you will notice the jobs here are still branded Humankind. Next year well be fully integrating our recruitment systems but for now they are separate.
Thanks for bearing with us and dont forget to check out the Waythrough jobs on the Richmond Fellowship and Aquarius job site
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