This is an exciting opportunity to work as part of the Criminal Justice Mental Health Team in Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale. All post holders who are members of a professional body must comply with standards of professional practice / conduct. It is the post holders’ responsibilities to ensure they are both familiar with and adhere to these requirements and maintain their professional membership to the relevant body. The role and function of the team is to offer advice, assessments, risk assessments, and provide some short term interventions for clients with mental health problems who are on the periphery of offending behavior or committed an offence. The post holder will be required to comply with the organisations standing order and standing financial instructions and at all times, deal honestly with the organisation with colleagues and all those who have dealing with the organisation including patients, relative and suppliers. Ensure that their behaviour and interests inside and outside work do not conflict with their Trust position, duties and/or responsibilities. Comply with and support the development of the performance standards within the service/department to ensure the service is responsive to and meets the needs of its customers. Required to develop and maintain good working relationships with all patients, service users, staff, contractors and where appropriate, members of the public. The Trust aims to maintain the good will and confidence of its own staff, patients, service users, NHS contractors and the general public. To assist in achieving this objective it is essential that at all times, the post holder carries out their duties in a courteous, sympathetic and professional manner. You will form part of the criminal justice team to screen, assess, risk manage and where appropriate refer on to appropriate services. As an integral part of the service you will ensure the development of an effective interface between the team, other mental health services, the police, probation, Court and the prison service and contribute to the development of the team’s gateway and assessment role and support the risk management strategy. The forever changing developments within the criminal justice field are well recognised and accepted within the team, and the team work to develop the service to ensure that they stay abreast of national and local policy changes and the impact and effect this may have on service delivery.