Women's Transitional Mental Health Lead (FTC)

• 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.

• 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.