Mersey Care NHS Trust is the health provider for the delivery of an innovative prison-based assessment and treatment service for residents with personality related needs.
This service is based within HMP Garth, a category B men's adult prison in Leyland, Lancashire. It is part of the National Offender Personality Disorder Strategy and is delivered as a partnership between HMP Garth and Mersey Care NHS Trust.
This post provides a unique opportunity to be part of a psychologically led service with formulation and integrated team working at its core. The service provides 1:1 and group based interventions based on Professor John Livesley's framework and model of interventions for individuals with personality related needs.
These structured interventions are provided as part of a therapeutic milieu, focusing on attachment, trauma, and systemic approaches, alongside comprehensive risk assessment and management. Core aims of the service are consistent with those of the Offender Personality Disorder Pathway, improving psychological wellbeing, reducing risk, improving staff skills and competencies, and pathway focused intervention.
The post holder will join a dedicated team of clinical and prison officer staff from various backgrounds and experience. Team members possess high levels of skill, passion, enthusiasm, and humor, committed to the ongoing successful development of the service and the opportunities it provides for our population.
The post holder will contribute to the systematic provision of specialised therapeutic services to residents within the Beacon. Applicants must be registered mental health nurses with additional training in psychological therapy (e.g., CAT, DBT, MBT, EMDR, Schema Therapy). Experience working with individuals with complex clinical and risk presentations, including within institutional settings and as part of a multi-disciplinary team, is required. This includes work with clients whose needs may meet criteria for a diagnosis of personality disorder and who may find it difficult to engage with services. Experience in complex service and organisational settings is also required, alongside the ability to manage personal, professional, and ethical challenges constructively.
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 11 million people. We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support both physical and mental health, including specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction, and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable, and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We are currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide while safely reducing costs.
At the Beacon service, we prioritise the development of our staff team and value diverse clinical interests. Team members have been trained in MBT, CAT, EMDR, Schema Therapy, leadership, psychoanalytic/psychodynamic models, and systemic ways of working. We are committed to creating an empowered staff team and strive to be reflective and supportive of each other, which is vital given the challenges this work can entail.
Full details of the main responsibilities of the post can be found in the job description and person specification.
We welcome visits to the service; please get in contact if you would like to arrange this or discuss this post further.
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