Women's Transitional Mental Health Lead (FTC)
Job Description
Job summary
Are you passionate about working with women in the Criminal Justice System and looking to develop your leadership skills?
We are now recruiting to this Women's Transitional Mental Health Lead within theThames Valley Offender Personality Disorder Pathway, developing and leading a pilot service supporting women with complex mental health needs and significant offending histories to successfully move on from custody. This transition is often a time of increased anxiety, especially for women who have experienced significant trauma and adversity.
To be successful in this role, you should be a Psychologist (newly qualified or experienced), Social Worker or Mental Health Nurse.
You will provide liaison and advocacy to support women to access and engage with relevant services and will carry a small caseload of women to support directly. You will build strong working relationships with professionals from a variety of settings including prison, probation and community mental health and social care.
You will join a specialist and highly supportive team with regular CPD and excellent opportunities for career development.
This post will be fixed-term for 24 months.
WE WOULD WELCOME A CONVERSATION PRIOR TO APPLICATION.Please contact Dr. Rosie Winder, Principal Clinical Psychologist & Thames Valley WOPD Lead a [email protected] in the first instance.
Main duties of the job
- You will forge strong working relationships with professionals from a variety of agencies and will have excellent communication and negotiation skills.
- You will have a good working knowledge of mental health legislation and use this to advocate for the women on your caseload.
- You will be confident to work independently for much of the time and to manage your own caseload.
- You will line manage and supervise a Band 5 Research Assistant.
- This post involves a combination of remote working and travel across Thames Valley, plus occasional visits to the four women's prisons located across the South of England. Access to a car or motorbike is therefore essential.
This role also attracts the RSU Allowance of £1,446 for this post.
The ability to travel independently between sites within the Trust is essential for this role.
About us
Oxford Health is a great place to work and to be able to showcase the best of yourself when making an application please read the "candidate guide to making an application" and ensure your supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses any essential criteria.
As a Trust we provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and Northeast Somerset. Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people's homes, delivering care as close to home as possible. Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: "Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team"
Our values are: "Caring, safe and excellent"
We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
o Excellent opportunities for career progressiono Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and developmento 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous serviceo NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailerso Competitive pension schemeo Lease car schemeo Cycle to work schemeo Employee Assistance Programmeo Mental Health First Aiderso Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists apply)o Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
Job responsibilities
- To provide specialist, psychologically-informed consultancy to prison and probation colleagues with a focus on risk-management and safeguarding.
- To liaise with a variety of professionals to facilitate access for this under-served population to relevant statutory and non-statutory support services.
- To support women presenting with a range of difficulties including personality disorder, complex PTSD, addiction, self-harm, challenging behaviour, sexual trauma and repeat victimisation.
- To promote inter-agency working, identifying and highlighting systemic obstacles to pathway progression.
- To co-facilitate relevant teaching and training to NHS and other organisations.
We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the supporting statement element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application.
The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview, and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.
We are aware that some candidates may choose to use AI tools to support their application. We kindly remind applicants that submissions should remain an honest and accurate representation of their experience and must take care to ensure the use of AI tools does not generate an application that does not accurately reflect their knowledge, skills and values.
Person Specification
Question 1
Essential
- This role is responsible for supporting women with complex mental health and personality difficulties as they transition from custody into the community. Please describe a specific example where you have coordinated care across multiple organisations during a complex transition.
Question 2
Essential
- Describe a time when you worked with a woman with complex trauma, personality difficulties or multiple and complex needs whose engagement with services was challenging. Explain: How you formulated the difficulties presented? How you adapted your approach to remain trauma-informed? How you built and maintained a therapeutic relationship the impact your intervention had.
Question 3
Essential
- The successful candidate will work closely with prisons, probation, Approved Premises, NHS services and voluntary organisations to improve outcomes for women. Tell us about a time you successfully influenced professionals from different organisations to improve a person's care or reduce barriers between services.
Question 4
Essential
- Women supported by this service often present with significant mental health needs, trauma histories, offending behaviour and complex risks. Describe a situation where you had to make a difficult clinical or professional decision involving competing priorities such as engagement, safeguarding, public protection or risk management.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Oxford Health NHS Trust
Address
Manzil Resource Centre
Oxford
OX4 1XE
United Kingdom
