This role is fixed term initially until 31 March 2019.

The Liaison and Diversion (L&D) Service works with people of all ages (including children and young people) with a wide range of vulnerabilities including poor mental health and learning disabilities, who have offended or are at risk of offending. We support service users who have contact with police stations, the courts, prisons and probation.

The Wakefield and Leeds L&D Teams are in the process of extending into Bradford, with the new team to be housed at Trafalgar House Police Station (BD5 0DX). The team is a multi-agency, multi skilled team, led and managed by Wakefield City Council Youth Offending Service. Touchstone is one of the partners in the service.

The aim is to work together to reduce the risk factors for reoffending by providing short-term support and signposting service users into longer-term support services.

L&D service in Bradford will operate 7 days per week from 08.00 to 20.00. Post holders may be required to work shifts to ensure appropriate cover, including regular weekend and evening work. This could include work in the Leeds and Wakefield teams. All post holders will be subject to Police Vetting to level 3.

Working alongside the L&D Team Manager, Coordinator and Touchstone’s other volunteering projects, you will support L&D service users (peers) and others to volunteer within the service and elsewhere.

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