Enhanced Partnership Working EPW Officer- HC621966
Are you passionate about protecting vulnerable people, and helping ensure those in mental health crisis receive the right support?
Our Force Mental Health Team is looking for an Enhanced Partnership Worker to join their small but impactive team. Working closely with the NHS, your role will be to effectively manage the police response to vulnerable people. Enhanced Partnership Workers seek to improve the experience for individuals, to support them in promoting positive health, wellbeing, the reduction of any offending behaviour and to make the best use of crisis alternatives. You will be responsible for working in partnership with NHS, social services, council and third sector organisations to devise care plans, manage policing responses and identify solutions to complex issues.
In this role you would be in a position to make a real difference to those that need it the most. The right candidate for this role will be positive, proactive, a problem solver, compassionate, and emotionally aware.
The team work flexibly across NHS sites, and local Police stations. There is the expectation to work out of the Hampshire Control Room in Netley, Southampton three times per week.
Job Title: Enhanced Partnership Working EPW Officer- HC621966
Location: Netley HQ
Salary: Scale SO1, £35,526 - £37,692 per annum
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 37 hours per week
Closing Date: Sunday 31st August 2025 at 23:59 hours
On a day to day basis you would:
- Work with partner agencies to develop shared care plans.
- Attend multi-agency meetings around managing surrounding risk, safeguarding, and identify solutions to complex safeguarding problems
- Provide live time subject matter expertise and tactical advice to officers at all ranks.
- Develop a detailed understanding of the MHA, MCA and Right Care Right Person (RCRP) (In house training provided).
However, the role is not limited to the above, and can be shaped to who you are as a person and what you bring to the role. There is the scope to be involved in data and analytics work, delivering training, or even working on force wide projects.
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We want to hear from you if you have:
- Experience of managing people in complex situations, especially those with mental health needs.
- Knowledge of mental health, and safeguarding.
- Experience of managing your own workloads effectively and independently identifying solutions to barriers.
- Experience in problem solving, prevention based policing, multi-agency working.
- Experience in positive risk taking, and dynamic risk assessment.
Competent Constable or Educated to QCF Level 3, or
work experience deemed to have brought the role holder
to a comparable level.
Current full drivers licence.
We are Undefined Aware - Level 2
We Take Ownership - Level 2
We are Collaborative - Level 1
We Support and Inspire - Level 1
We Undefined Critically - Level 2
We are Innovative and Open Minded - Level 1
Courage
Respect and Empathy
Public Service
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Please contact the Recruitment Team at police.recruitment@hampshire.police.uk or on 023 8045 1611
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Hampshire & Isle of Wight Constabulary is an equal opportunities employer that positively promotes flexible working, enabling officers and staff to achieve a healthy work-life balance whilst meeting operational requirements of the constabulary. We actively encourage applications to be made on a full time, part time or flexible working basis.
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