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 in 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. The core aims of the service align with those of the Offender Personality Disorder Pathway: improving psychological wellbeing, reducing risk, and enhancing staff skills and competencies.
The post holder will join a dedicated team of clinical and prison officer staff from various backgrounds and experiences. Team members possess high levels of skill, passion, enthusiasm, and a commitment 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 a registered mental health nurse with additional training in a psychological therapy (e.g., CAT, DBT, MBT, EMDR, Schema Therapy). Experience working with individuals with complex clinical and risk presentations, particularly in institutional settings and as part of a multi-disciplinary team, is essential. This should include work with clients whose needs may meet the 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 required, alongside the ability to constructively manage the personal, professional, and ethical challenges inherent in such work.
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical and mental health services in the North West, serving over 11 million people. We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health, including 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 excel in their roles 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 service quality while safely reducing costs.
At the Beacon service, we prioritise the development of our staff team and value diverse clinical interests. Our 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, so please get in contact if you would like to arrange this or discuss this post further.
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