Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust rDYcspZ6
Candidates should be registered mental health nurses with advanced training in psychological therapies such as Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), or Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR). Experience working with complex clinical cases in institutional settings and as part of a multi-disciplinary team is essential, particularly in engaging clients who may exhibit characteristics of personality disorders. The successful applicant will join a committed team aiming to enhance psychological wellbeing and improve risk management within the service.
Mersey Care NHS Trust is the health provider for the delivery of an innovative prison-based assessment and treatment service for residents with personality related needs.
This service is based within HMP Garth which is a category B men's adult prison based in Leyland, Lancashire. The service is part of the National Offender Personality Disorder Strategy and is delivered as a partnership between HMP Garth and Mersey Care NHS Trust.
We believe that this post provides a unique opportunity to be part of a psychologically led service with formulation and integrated team working at its core. The service provides 1:1 and group based interventions based on Professor John Livesley's framework and model of interventions for individuals with personality related needs.
These structured interventions are provided as part of a therapeutic milieu which involves a focus on attachment, trauma and systemic approaches, alongside comprehensive risk assessment and management. Core aims of the service are consistent with those of the Offender Personality Disorder Pathway in improving psychological wellbeing, reducing risk, improving staff skills and competencies and pathway focussed intervention.
The post holder will be joining a dedicated team of clinical and prison officer staff from a range of backgrounds and experience. Team members have high levels of skill, passion and enthusiasm (and humour!) and are committed to ensuring the on-going successful development of the service and the opportunities it provides for our population.
The post holder will contribute to the systematic provision of specialised therapeutic services to residents within the Beacon. Applicants will be a registered mental health nurse with additional training in a psychological therapy e.g. CAT, DBT, MBT, EMDR, Schema Therapy. You should have some experience of working with individuals with complex clinical and risk presentations including within institutional settings and as part of a multi-disciplinary team. This should include work with clients whose needs may meet criteria for a diagnosis of personality disorder and who may find it difficult to engage with services. Experience of working in complex service and organisational settings is required alongside an ability to constructively manage the personal, professional and ethical opportunities and challenges such work can involve.
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