Custody and Court Service Worker

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**Reports To**:Senior Resilience Worker / North Wales Recovery and Resilience Manager

**Location**:Denbighshire - Primary Base will be in Police Custody Suite and Court

The role will be Denbighshire based with occasional travel to other Counties in North Wales

**Background**

Kaleidoscope is a pioneering substance misuse treatment and support provider, offering evidence-based treatment and holistic support to individuals who access its services. Staff teams work collaboratively with partner agencies including Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (BCUHB), Local Authorities, North Wales Police (NWP) and the North Wales Office of Police and Crime Commissioner (NWOPCC), HMPPS (Her Majesties Prison and Probation Service), PHW (Public Health Wales), and other third sector support agencies.

Kaleidoscope offers dedicated assessment and interventions, care co-ordination, recovery care planning, group activities, health and wellbeing, harm reduction, housing support, independent living, and mutual aid services to those involved within the Criminal Justice system. Services work closely with current community providers to ensure transfer of care from prison services, community treatment and into wider recovery support.

**Services offered**:
The Dechrau Newydd Service, delivers the North Wales Criminal Justice (CJ) Service. Responsible for the identification, triage, assessment, care planning and case management of people who use substances entering the CJ Service. To provide police custody suite and voluntary attendance scheme arrest referral services, statutory court rehabilitation requirements, prescribing and assertive outreach services to substance misusers identified through contacts in Police custody, courts, prison or the community. To manage and report on offenders who have statutory orders made by the Court for treatment of substance misuse under the Drug Rehabilitation, Alcohol Activity and Alcohol Treatment Requirements and those returning to North Wales from prison. Undertaking triage assessments at these stages may be fast delivery providing timely and accurate advice at the pre-sentence stage that considers substances used (volume, route, frequency), the offences committed and any links between the two.

**Role Purpose**:
Based in Wrexham custody suite and Court and accessing the Voluntary Interview sites as identified. The dedicated worker will support police and courts with the front end triage work and will hold a caseload of clients identified as ‘persistent returners’. The support offer will extend to those who refuse to engage within the custody environment by means of Follow Up contact within 48hrs upon release from custody. They will liaise with North Wales Police and court service and deliver the brief interventions support offer. They will work collaboratively with North Wales Police and engage with individuals that have Required Assessments (RAs) and manage the DN CJ ‘persistent returners’ so that we take a consistent approach to engagement - re engagement expectations and work to a defined strategy, working at all times in collaboration with Checkpoint and Women’s Pathfinder to ensure a robust early Intervention approach across cohorts.

**Main Duties and Responsibilities**:

- Engage detainees, undertake a triage in custody and offer immediate access to services.
- Carry out detailed personal and risk assessments against criteria, including statutory Required Assessments and Restriction on Bail and DRR/ATR and RAR court assessments in conjunction with the National Probation
- Work with Dechrau Newydd Service Colleagues, liaison with Court and Probation Service colleagues, other professionals, treatment agencies and clinical providers.
- Working in partnership with the Police, Court Services, MARAC, MAPPA,IOM.
- Liaison with prison substance misuse services, prison and community offender managers
- Work collaboratively with Police, Probation and prisons to gather and analyse intelligence on behavioural patterns, to carefully assess the factors that contribute to drug use and link these with risks of offending and harm
- Will support police with the front end triage work and will hold a caseload of clients identified as ‘persistent returners’. The support offer will extend to those who refuse to engage within the custody environment by means of Follow Up contact within 48hrs upon release from custody.
- Work closely with individuals to explore their needs, prioritising our response, seeking safety first and tailoring our approach in accordance with their engagement style, capabilities and characteristics
- Triage assessments that provide a strong initial understanding of a person’s needs and characteristics including potential barriers to engagement, conditions that may inhibit an assessment and a plan of how to manage those factors.
- Hold 3 and 6 month Strategic reviews in collaboration wi