LDA Secure Community Forensic Service

The service is delivered via a partnership arrangement that is called the Prospect Lead Provider Collaborative that includes a collaboration of partners:

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust,

Cheshire Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

Elysium Healthcare.

The service will:

• Support the development of the clinical and operational infrastructure for a forensic community service for people with LDA aged 16+,
• Provide specialist intervention to service users and their families and provide added value through the dissemination of forensic expertise and knowledge across multiple stakeholders,
• Support and facilitate the timely discharge of people who have complex needs from secure settings,
• Provide an assertive in reach model, working with existing in-patient teams and community stakeholders, to support safe and timely discharge from secure care,
• Support, where indicated, a planned transition to mainstream services (12 -18months). This should include specialist risk assessment, monitoring and clinical treatment/therapy in community settings,
• Prevent hospital admission and support the gate-keeping process,
• Provide advice training and consultation to the wider health, social care and criminal justice services to support the principle of hospital avoidance,
• Will support the assessment and contribute to the development of interventions and follow-up for individuals with offending behaviour,
• Will offer specialist advice to the wider system to assist in in determining whether someone should have care and treatment within the community.