Clinical Lead for London Women’s MHTR Service Consultant Psychologist

CNWL NHS Foundation Trust; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health service provider in London is seeking a Clinical Lead to oversee the Women’s Mental Health Treatment Requirement service. This role requires strong leadership skills and experience with offender personality disorders, aiming to reduce custodial sentences and enhance well-being. Responsibilities include clinical supervision, service development, and collaboration with various organizational partners.

Benefits

Health & wellbeing services

Cycle to work scheme

Access to discounts through MyTrustBenefits

Qualifications

• Experience in offender personality disorder services.
• Experience in clinical leadership roles.
• Registered with Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the Women’s Mental Health Treatment Requirement service.
• Supervise the clinical team and manage clinical caseload.
• Work collaboratively with criminal justice system partners.

Skills

Leadership

Psychological assessment

Knowledge of offender personality disorders

Education

Doctorate in Clinical Psychology

Tools

Psychological assessment tools

Case management software

Job description

Overview

A Vacancy at Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust. Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust is a Top Employer Award Winner and works in partnership to provide responsive and dependable primary care, mental health, intellectual disability and substance misuse services to the diverse and culturally rich communities we serve.

In our quest to deliver patient-focused quality care we are looking to recruit a highly motivated, innovative and enthusiastic Clinical Lead for London Women’s MHTR Service Consultant Psychologist to lead and develop the pan-London Women’s Mental Health Treatment Requirement service to reduce custodial sentences and improve the wellbeing of women in the criminal justice system with mental health needs. This is a London Pathways Partnership (LPP) service, jointly provided by Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, Central and North West London (CNWL) NHS Foundation Trust and voluntary sector partner Together for Mental Wellbeing.

Our motto is “Caring NOT Judging” so by working in partnership with the criminal justice system and other agencies, we provide responsive, dependable and high-quality primary care and mental health services to those who may have offended and those at risk of offending in the communities we serve, to improve their health status and to encourage social inclusion.

Why not see what our staff say about working within our award winning teams: https://www.cnwl.nhs.uk/health-and-justice/find-out-what-its-work-health-and-justice

The Women’s Mental Health Treatment Requirement (MHTR) Service is funded via a partnership between the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), NHS England and NHS Improvement (NHSE/I), Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) and Office of Health Improvement and Disparities. MHTRs were introduced by the Criminal Justice Act in 2003, recognising that for many individuals who offend, mental health and substance misuse issues underpin their offending behaviour. Treatment requirements offer courts an alternative to short custodial sentences and aim to prevent reoffending by addressing underlying vulnerabilities and improving quality of life. This service aims to increase the use of primary and secondary care treatment requirements as part of a community sentence, offering psychologically informed interventions and advice. The MHTR Service will also provide the courts with information and confidence to sentence to robust and effective treatment requirements.

LPP are looking for someone to cover the current post holder’s maternity leave from December 2025 for approximately 10 months. The role will be responsible for operational service delivery across all courts in London. The successful candidate will hold a small complex clinical caseload and be responsible for supervision of the clinical team.

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust offers its staff ongoing career progression through:

• Monthly supervision
• Annual personal development plans/appraisals
• Access to internal and external training opportunities.
• Excellent progression through various career pathway opportunities such as but not limited to:
• Support & guidance with Revalidation
• Hidden Gem & annual award ceremonies

Excellent staff benefits, our benefit packages are amongst the best in London:

• Health & wellbeing services
• Season ticket loans
• Cycle to work scheme
• The trust also values its staff and you are entitled to become a member of MyTrustBenefits. MyTrustBenefits is an online portal for all CNWL staff, as well as their family and friends. It offers over 1400 discounts at hundreds of retailers nationwide. Save money on your weekly food shops, toiletries, cosmetics, cinema, meals out, holidays, travel and entertainment. You can also access free online courses on a variety of topics, professional and personal, ranging from business management, languages, law and teaching.

All of our sites in Surrey offer free use of the onsite leisure facilities and free parking for staff. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

Responsibilities

To be responsible for the organisation, management and clinical leadership of high-quality specialist Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) services, namely the OPD services at HMP Highdown and CNWL’s community OPD provision in London. These services are all provided by the London Pathways Partnership, a consortium of five NHS Trusts (including CNWL) who work in partnership to deliver a network of services to complex and high-risk service users in London and the Southeast. The services at HMP High Down include a Progressive Psychological Informed Planned Environment (PIPE) for men with Learning Disabilities and an OPD outreach service. The community services currently include an OPD Integrated Community Service and a specialist primary care Mental Health Treatment Requirement service for women.

To organise psychological and OPD provision, through staffing and model development to ensure equitable and evidence-based services with robust referral and transition policies and procedures that compliment sentence planning and consistent with OPD strategies and guidelines.

To develop an effective co-working relationship with the HMPPS partners so that the OPD services are effectively co-led and staff training and supervision is co-facilitated.

To supervise psychologists and OPD clinicians within OPD and keep staff abreast of the latest guidance and new ways of working.

To provide teaching and training of junior staff, psychology students & trainees, specialist nurses, other staff.

To participate actively in both departmental and Trust matters concerning Care Quality.

To contribute to the maintenance and development of OPD services within the Trust and LPP to the highest standard.

To take an active role in the local Senior Management Teams and (when appropriate) to wider Health & Justice and LPP Services.

To contribute to business development across Health & Justice and LPP through writing tenders, presenting on new business bids, designing appropriate service models for cost-effective and quality care.

Where appropriate, to lead on investigations to support disciplinary action or complaints and incident reviews.

To lead on the provision of high-quality service reports and to represent the OPD services in contract review meetings and national OPD and commissioning forums.

To lead on audit, policy and service development for designated services and to contribute to and develop research within the Offender Personality Disorder Service Line

This advert closes on Wednesday 17 Sep 2025