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

Detailed job description and main 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, focused on 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 participants' journeys into, during, and out of the service.

Liaison with other agencies within the prison and the community.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

1. UK recognised qualification or statement of equivalence in: Nursing, Social work, Clinical/Forensic/Counselling Psychology, Occupational Therapy, or Arts Therapy.
2. Eligible for chartership, full membership, or professional registration of the appropriate professional body.
3. Evidence of further training in personality disorder, DBT, MBT, Schema Therapy, or other relevant therapeutic approach (e.g. recognised Certificate).

Desirable criteria

1. Specific qualification/training in Personality Disorder.

Experience

Essential criteria

1. Recent experience of working with offenders in probation or prison settings (within the last 5 years).
2. Supervision of registered and unregistered staff.
3. Work with other agencies/professions.

Desirable criteria

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

Skills/Attributes

Essential criteria

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

Employer certification/accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020, and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

1. Nexus Outreach Clinical Lead (PDF, 520.3KB)
2. Inclusive Top 50 UK Employers List (PDF, 78.9KB)
3. Financial Support & Discounts (PDF, 919.6KB)
4. Value of the NHS Pension Scheme (PDF, 279.0KB)