Band 8a - Nexus Outreach Clinical Lead - HMP Eastwood Park

Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

The closing date is 29 April 2025

Job summary

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 Service.

We are looking for a Registered Mental Health Professional (Psychological Therapist, Art Therapists or Clinical/Counselling/Forensic Psychologist/Social Worker/Occupational Therapist/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 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 support and create 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.

Date posted

15 April 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£53,755 to £60,504 a year pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

342-SS051-0425

Job locations

HMP Eastwood Park

Wotten Under Edge

GL12 8DB

Job description

Job responsibilities

Clinical Leadership and co-developing the strategy for the service with the operational lead and with support of the Nexus Clinical Lead

To provide specialist interventions as appropriate for example focussed of distress tolerance skills, crisis management and developing effective relationships with professionals

To develop specialist Risk assessments

To undertake Research and Development, service evaluation and clinical audit.

To clinically supervise junior team members

To provide management supervision to clinical and operational team members

Providing training, consultation and supervision to operational colleagues within Nexus and the wider prison estate

To oversee and facilitate Pathway Planning for service participant's journeys into, during and out of the service

Liaison with other agencies within the prison and the community

Job description

Job responsibilities

Clinical Leadership and co-developing the strategy for the service with the operational lead and with support of the Nexus Clinical Lead

To provide specialist interventions as appropriate for example focussed of distress tolerance skills, crisis management and developing effective relationships with professionals

To develop specialist Risk assessments

To undertake Research and Development, service evaluation and clinical audit.

To clinically supervise junior team members

To provide management supervision to clinical and operational team members

Providing training, consultation and supervision to operational colleagues within Nexus and the wider prison estate

To oversee and facilitate Pathway Planning for service participant's journeys into, during and out of the service

Liaison with other agencies within the prison and the community

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

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)

Desirable

Specific qualification/ training in Personality Disorder

Experience

Essential

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

Desirable

Experience working with female offenders
Specific leadership role in the services for or related to working with personality disorders

skills/attributes

Essential

Empathy/engagement skills with Forensic service user group
Self-awareness and emotional resilience in face of highly distressing situations.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

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)

Desirable

Specific qualification/ training in Personality Disorder

Experience

Essential

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

Desirable

Experience working with female offenders
Specific leadership role in the services for or related to working with personality disorders

skills/attributes

Essential

Empathy/engagement skills with Forensic service user group
Self-awareness and emotional resilience in 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.