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 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.

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.