Elements and Performance Criteria
- Work within a legal context
- Apply knowledge of the legal system and the justice health system
- Work with knowledge of legislation (other than mental health legislation) as it applies to the client with forensic mental health issues
- Work with understanding of social and political context in which the law operates, in the context of client with forensic mental health issues
- Work with clients with mental health and forensic issues
- Determine possible impact of client forensic issues on client's recovery program
- Determine impact of mental health status on client's forensic issues
- Determine impact on client of the interaction between forensic issues and mental health issues
- Where required, and with client's permission, involve legal and advocacy services in client's recovery plan
- With client, review recovery plan to best meet the intersection between mental health and forensic issues
- Where appropriate, assist client to identify possible cause and effect of mental health issues on forensic issues
- Determine client's needs holistically, identifying health and social care needs including factors relating to impacts of culture, race, gender, spirituality and lifestyle
- Identify other risk factors for client's population group (e.g. sex offender risk factors)
- Work with client to identify indicators that client is approaching a state of relapse
- Provide advocacy within legal and mental health sectors where there is an intersect impact on client
- Work collaboratively to plan support
- Review mental health status in relation to ongoing forensic issues
- Regularly discuss progress with the client and renegotiate goals and strategies as required
- Work with the client to identify changes in their mental health status and determine the impact of any change on client's forensic issues
- Where appropriate, review effectiveness of legal and advocacy services in relation to client's forensic issues and in the context of their recovery plan
- Discuss recovery outcomes and ongoing forensic issues with client and appropriate persons inside or outside the organisation and document in accordance with organisation policies and procedures
- In consultation with client and other relevant stakeholders, revise goals, strategies and service delivery decisions to reflect outcomes of review undertaken
- Report and document information