Criminal Justice Pathways Co-ordinator

As part of a newly funded initiative to offer an innovative, multi-disciplinary approach to meet the needs of substance using individuals that engage with the Criminal Justice pathway in Islington we are looking to recruit several key roles to join Islington Better Lives. These posts are designed to offer a responsive and proactive approach to working with this client group and improving their health, wellbeing and offending behaviour.

This post will be an active member of the Better Lives team and work along side the management group and take a proactive, outward facing role leading on building working relationships with our partners in Criminal Justice Services such as Police, Probation, Courts and Prisons and supporting the coordination of the CJ pathway.

Better Lives is a busy multi-disciplinary team providing a range of interventions for drug and alcohol using clients in Islington. We have an existing Criminal Justice pathway and specialism, and this role seeks to build on that work to enhance the pathway to allow increased capacity and responsiveness when working with this client group.

The post holder will lead the coordination of the criminal justice pathway, establishment, and evolution of this team as it aims to improve collaboration and joint working arrangements between prison healthcare and community-based treatment services, including in-reach into prison.

Your goal is to improve engagement post prison release and increase the likelihood of a prison leaver engaging in treatment and support services in the community. You will work alongside the management team as the Trust is the lead provider of Better Lives working in partnership with Humankind and VIA to ensure that the pathways meets its goals and develop opportunities for new ways of working and embedding the lessons learnt from this initiative.

Camden and Islington Foundation Trust is a strong performing and ambitious organisation. The Trusts four key priorities are
Early and Effective Interventions
Helping People to live well
Research and Innovation
Keeping our service users, carers and staff safe.
Our cultural pillars are

**We Value each other**: Supporting each other’s wellbeing and development.

**We are empowered**: Taking action and responsibility to do what is best for your services and team

**We keep things simple**: Cutting out bureaucracy when it adds nothing

**We are connected**: Working collaboratively across services and organisations rather than in silos

The team will work jointly with Probation and IOM Officers to increase access and engagement with treatment. They will be flexibly deployed using an assertive outreach approach to work across the full range of criminal justice settings and provide a range of functions being co-located in relevant areas including assessments in police custody suites and courts, case management of individuals placed on DRRs/ATRs and those released from prisons.

You will build treatment capacity by delivering structured psychosocial interventions and this will include in the Probation setting. This post will be key in developing closer working relations with Probation and prisons to ensure that the substance using offenders they are working with benefit from this joint working model. This post will be instrumental in spearheading an assertive outreach approach with additional capacity that will help to improve outcomes for individuals.

This job description is written as an indication of the nature and scope of duties and responsibilities. Additional competencies may be required to fulfil the needs of specific areas and particular client groups. The post holder will be expected to carry out other duties assigned by their Service Manager, which are appropriate to the professional competences and experience of the post holder.