Band 8a - Nexus Outreach Clinical Lead - HMP Eastwood Park
An opportunity has arisen to become the Clinical Lead of our Outreach Service at HMP Eastwood Park, which forms part of the National Offender Personality Disorder Pathway (OPD) provision within the prison. The Nexus Outreach Service sits alongside our Nexus Provision PIPE (Psychologically Informed Planned Environment) and Nexus Day Service.
We are looking for a Registered Mental Health Professional (Psychological Therapist, Art Therapists, Clinical/Counselling/Forensic Psychologist, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist, or Mental Health Nurse) to join our dynamic Outreach team. Nexus is a welcoming, compassionate, and innovative team to work within and consists of a multi-disciplinary clinical and operational team. There are lots of opportunities for development within our service from specialist training and supervision.
We are looking for someone with an interest in working with female offenders with a Personality Disorder. People that attract a diagnosis of personality disorder are often stigmatised, and we are therefore keen to find somebody driven to support the wider system to challenge the stigma surrounding personality disorder.
This is an excellent opportunity for someone looking to develop their clinical leadership and management skills.
Main duties of the job
You will provide Clinical Leadership for the Nexus Outreach Service at HMP Eastwood Park, working alongside the Operational manager for the service. The Outreach Service delivers psychological informed interventions to a complex group of service users who are not ready/able to access more structured interventions provided within the Day Service and PIPE. They reside on the main location, and the work often involves supporting the system around the individual as well as the service user directly. There is also a significant emphasis on supporting the system around the individual to understand the complex presentation of individuals and in supporting them to develop effective skills to manage those individuals. The successful candidate will provide management and clinical supervision to junior clinicians within the team and operational colleagues. Specialist supervision will be provided. This is an excellent opportunity to further develop your specialist knowledge and skills in working with female offenders within the OPD Pathway.
About us
We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust): a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.
We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire, and in parts of Dorset.
Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.
AWP is committed to supporting and creating a positive research and evidence-based environment and culture, which can have a beneficial impact on everyone who works for the organisation and the care we provide to those who use our services.
At AWP, we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian, and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities, and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives, and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.
Job responsibilities
1. Clinical Leadership and co-developing the strategy for the service with the operational lead and with support of the Nexus Clinical Lead.
2. To provide specialist interventions as appropriate, for example, focused on distress tolerance skills, crisis management, and developing effective relationships with professionals.
3. To undertake Research and Development, service evaluation, and clinical audit.
4. To clinically supervise junior team members.
5. To provide management supervision to clinical and operational team members.
6. Providing training, consultation, and supervision to operational colleagues within Nexus and the wider prison estate.
7. To oversee and facilitate Pathway Planning for service participants' journeys into, during, and out of the service.
8. Liaison with other agencies within the prison and the community.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* UK recognised qualification or statement of equivalence in: Nursing, Social work, Clinical/Forensic/Counselling Psychology, Occupational Therapy, or Arts Therapy.
* Eligible for chartership, full membership, or professional registration of appropriate professional body.
* Evidence of further training in personality disorder, DBT, MBT, Schema Therapy, or other relevant therapeutic approach (e.g., recognised Certificate).
* Specific qualification/training in Personality Disorder.
Experience
* Recent experience of working with offenders in probation or prison settings (within the last 5 years).
* Supervision of registered and unregistered staff.
* Work with other agencies/professions.
* Experience working with female offenders.
* Specific leadership role in the services for or related to working with personality disorders.
Skills/Attributes
* Empathy/engagement skills with Forensic service user group.
* Self-awareness and emotional resilience in the face of highly distressing situations.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975, and as such, it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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