Scott Jordan MacRitchie

Provide independent advocacy to patients within a high-secure mental health setting, supporting individuals to understand and exercise their rights, express their wishes and participate in decisions about their care and treatment. Work with patients with complex mental health and social needs, including those subject to restrictive legal frameworks.

Responsibilities include safeguarding, Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act advocacy, supporting access to healthcare and services, facilitating communication with multidisciplinary teams, and promoting dignity, autonomy and least-restrictive practice. Maintain professional boundaries, accurate records and confidentiality while working collaboratively with clinical and external professionals.

Advocacy Support Worker - Pohwer Advocacy NHS High Secure services Ashworth Hospital

(2025-06)

Provide independent advocacy to patients within a high-secure mental health setting, supporting individuals to understand and exercise their rights, express their wishes and participate in decisions about their care and treatment. Work with patients with complex mental health and social needs, including those subject to restrictive legal frameworks.

Responsibilities include safeguarding, Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act advocacy, supporting access to healthcare and services, facilitating communication with multidisciplinary teams, and promoting dignity, autonomy and least-restrictive practice. Maintain professional boundaries, accurate records and confidentiality while working collaboratively with clinical and external professionals.

Criminal case worker - The Home Office - Foreign offenders command

(2024-06 - 2025-06)

Investigating the safety, reopening likelyhood and Safeguarding concerns surrounding foreign national offenders in the UK

Probation practitioner - His Majesty's Probation service

(2023-06)

Youth Gang Violence specialist - Probation service officer. Working in the community with 18 – 25 year old involved in serious organised crime. Specialism in Gun and knife violence within the knowsley area.

Crown and High court Judges Clerk. Executive Officer grade D - Ministry of Justice, Liverpool crown court

(2021-05 - 2023-06)

• To ensure that a comprehensive log is kept of representation orders and that a judge's report is available at all sentence hearings.
• To accurately prepare case summaries for Resident Judge.
• To ensure that applications for representation orders are checked and approved upon authorisation of Judge.
• To determine all claims for costs including re-determinations, Prior Authority and Wasted Costs and provide written reasons in accordance with the appropriate regulations and within targets.
• To determine accurately witnesses' expenses within target times and provide written reasons upon request when required in accordance with guidelines.
• Process general correspondence within target and in particular procedural deadlines for any resulting amendments.
• Ensure compliance with financial and operational risk management policies when determining and processing costs in accordance with department guidelines.
• Undertake any allocated tasks as part of the role i.e. PA Role to Judiciary when required; arranging marshalling and swearing in of Justices.
• To ensure efficient through put of listed work in the allocated court room on a daily basis, giving appropriate support to judiciary and keeping the List Office and other agencies fully appraised of developments when necessary.
• To meet with the Judge before sitting and to be available in Court as required.
• To maintain full recording of hearings using the DARTS technology ensuring accurate audio allocation to correct cases.
• To sit in court on a daily basis and ensure that cases called on time, all parties are in court at appropriate time. Correct phraseology used for arraignment, empanelling, taking verdicts
• To maintain the court file including accurate recording of relevant matters and judicial decisions, accurate completion of Xhibit log and Crest Orders and all subsequent forms, orders and results exported onto the Portal within Target.
• Carry out 100% HMCTS assurance programme compliance of all Resulting and ensure appropriate risks are identified and managed.
• Ensure that appropriate codes of conduct are applied to the Courtroom and other areas of the Court premises whilst sitting and during adjournments and to actively intervene and encourage compliance.
• To ensure that obligations under the Victim Code and the standards under the Witness Charter are complied with.
• Ensure all court users are treated fairly and with respect, and understand how their own performance impacts on that of the court and the confidence of users.
• Ensure that appropriate files are passed to administration teams within agreed target times.
• Take part in and deliver employee engagement activities to effect good working relationships with staff and to improve service delivery and staff morale / motivation.
• Promote values, policies and procedures (including diversity, attendance and discipline).
• Maintain effective working relationships with the judiciary, supporting agencies, voluntary and user groups. Working with agencies to improve the level of service offered to users.
• Apply CI principles, tools and techniques to working practices to improve efficiency of operations.
• Perform any Incident Control Duties as required in the 'in court role'

Assistant Technical officer - Royal Liverpool Hospital - cardiorespiratory care

(2020-01 - 2021-06)

Work in AnE, wards and department completing ECGs, spirometry, Feno acidity tests and Pulmonary function tests.

NHS Covid-19 Track and Trace operative - NHS Covid-19 Track and Trace operative for Public Health England

(2020-05 - 2020-07)

Collecting information in relation to daily Covid-19 infection rates and sharing this information with the appropriate agencies.

• First point of contact for contacts of confirmed cases of Covid-19
• Ensuring correct isolation advice is give to contacts of Covid-19 keeping within the guidelines laid out by Public Health England.
• Data entry and updating of new and complex government software.

Band 2 and 3 Bank HCA - Liverpool University Hospital Trust

(2020-04)

Assisting a team of Doctors, nurses and allied health care professionals to care for patients with a multitude of physical and psychiatric illness.

• Performing regular patient observations including; Blood pressure, Saturated oxygen level, Hearth rate and blood sugars.
• Assisting with all aspects of nutritional and personal care.

Residential children's support officer

(2019-09 - 2020-03)

• Key working children with specialist needs and back grounds such as child sexual exploitation, Organised criminal groups, and paediatric psychiatric conditions.
• Safety and maintenance of the home.
• Building relationships with families and outside agencies to enrich the children's lives.
• Working with partner agencies such as social service to deliver an holistic approach to childcare.

Probation Officer - National Probation Service - Liverpool

(2019-01 - 2019-09)

• Interview offenders on probation regularly to evaluate their progress in accomplishing goals and maintaining the terms specified in their probation contracts and rehabilitation plans.
• Administer drug and alcohol tests, including random drug screening of offenders, to verify compliance with substance-abuse treatment programmes.
• Discuss with offenders how such issues as drug and alcohol abuse and anger-management problems might have played roles in their criminal behaviour.
• Conduct pre-hearing and pre-sentencing investigations; testify in court regarding offenders' backgrounds, recommended sentences and sentencing conditions.

Key worker - North West Property Custodians - Merseyside, England

(2018-01 - 2018-12)

• Counsel clients in individual or group sessions to assist them in dealing with substance abuse, mental or physical illness, poverty, unemployment or physical abuse.
• Monitor, evaluate and record a client's progress with respect to treatment goals.
• Educate clients or community members about mental or physical illness, abuse, medication or community resources available.
• Interview potential residents to establish offending history and need to access treatment services.

Customer service manager - Voodoo Boutique Outlet - Merseyside, England

(2014-02 - 2018-01)

• Develop pricing strategies, balancing firm objectives and customer satisfaction.
• Direct the hiring, training, or performance evaluations of marketing or sales staff and oversee their daily activities.
• Coordinate or participate in promotional activities or trade shows, working with developers, advertisers, or production managers, to market products or services.
• Advise business or other groups on local, national, or international factors affecting the buying or selling of products or services.

Health Care Assistant - Age Concern - Merseyside, England

(2012-02 - 2014-01)

• Administer prescribed oral medication under the written direction of the doctor or as directed by a home care nurse or assistant, and ensure that patients take their medicine.
• Provide patients with help moving in and out of beds, baths, wheelchairs or cars and with dressing and grooming.
• Care for patients by changing bed linen, washing and ironing laundry, cleaning or assisting with their personal care.
• Accompany clients to doctors' offices or on other trips outside the home, providing transport, assistance and companionship.
• Entertain, converse with or read aloud to patients to keep them mentally healthy and alert.

Health Care Assistant - BUPA Care Homes - Liverpool, England

(2009-04 - 2012-01)

• Instruct, motivate, safeguard or assist patients practising exercises or functional activities, under the direction of medical staff.
• Maintain records of patient care, condition, progress or problems to be reported, and discuss observations with the supervisor or case manager.
• Administer prescribed oral medication under the written direction of the doctor or as directed by a home care nurse or assistant, and ensure that patients take their medicine.
• Provide patients with help moving in and out of beds, baths, wheelchairs or cars and with dressing and grooming.
• Care for patients by changing bed linen, washing and ironing laundry, cleaning or assisting with their personal care.
• Accompany clients to doctors' offices or on other trips outside the home, providing