Psychological Therapist Women’s OPD Pathway Community Lead inLondon inLondon PUBLISHED MON 27 JAN 2025

To lead on development, oversight and delivery of the women’s pathway for the London Pathways Partnership across all aspects of the Offender Personality Disorder Community Pathway including screening, assessment formulation and the development of gender responsive interventions. The post will involve development, oversight and delivery of the women’s strategy in partnership with probation and third sector partner providers.

• Psychological support to HMPPS women’s approved premises in London
• Psychological support to the OPD women’s hostel
• Development, oversight and delivery of the London OPD women’s hub, in partnership with probation and third sector partner providers
• Development, oversight and delivery of gender-specific approaches to formulation, assessment and interventions within the London women’s OPD pathway
• Attendance at women’s OPD strategy and LPP senior leadership meetings for London and more widely, where required
• Responsibility for monitoring performance and delivery of the London OPD women’s pathway for LPP, including preparation of quarterly reports and management and escalation of risks
• Close liaison with partner organisation women’s leads (e.g. HMPPS, Women in Prison and Penrose) and LPP service and clinical leads
• Development, oversight and delivery of the London OPD women’s strategy, in partnership with probation and third sector partner providers
• Coordination and oversight of the LPP women’s champions across London
• Planning the women’s pathway networking event
• Women’s MBT quarterly reports
• Completion and monitoring of the women’s risk and issues log, ensuring information is escalated.
  
  

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our Purpose Is To Improve Lives By Providing The Best Possible Care To Our Patients And Their Families. This Is Strengthened By Our New Values

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care
  
  

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Caitriona Higginst Job title: OPD community Pathway Joint Clinical Lead Email address: Telephone number: