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.