Job summary
An exciting opportunity to take a role in evaluating interventions for complex service users within the HMPPS/NHS Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) Pathway.
The role is hosted by the London Pathways Partnership (LPP) and will work alongside the national OPD research team. The London Pathways Partnership (a consortium of 5 NHS trusts) delivers psychological services in several prisons in the Southeast of England and across the National Probation Service in London, providing training, case consultation, formulation and pathway management for high-risk high harm personality disordered offenders. Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is the lead trust for LPP.
This role sits within the Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) Pathway and is critical to the delivery of robust, ethical, and impactful research. It will support a growing programme of research into the experiences, risks, transitions, and outcomes of individuals exhibiting traits of probable 'personality disorder' and complex needs across custodial and community settings.
Main duties of the job
The postholder will contribute to mixed-methods evaluations, longitudinal studies, and feasibility research, with a focus on participant recruitment, fieldwork, data analysis, and stakeholder engagement. Working in close partnership with NHS, HMPPS, and academic collaborators, this role will ensure that the research informs trauma-informed, psychologically-informed, and evidence-based practice across the OPD pathway. The post will be split 0.8WTE focusing on research and 0.2wte focusing on clinical work in one of the LPP's community/prison OPD services (exact service location to be confirmed at interview).
About us
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
Job description
Job responsibilities
Main research responsibilities will include; research administration, developing research skills and knowledge, writing reports and papers for publication and data management.
The clinical work will be to support and enhance the psychological well-being of people on probation/prisons within the community OPD service providing informal and formal support, psychological assessment and psychological interventions under the supervision of a qualified professional psychologist. This may include group and/or individual interventions.
Please see attached Job description for more detailed information.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION, PLEASE READ:
All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting in order to work in a Prison Setting. This will be completed as part of the pre-employment checks through Oxleas and the prison vetting team.
You will need to provide:
Proof of right to work documentation
Proof of ID, needs to include 1 photographic ID
Proof of address documentation
Non-UK passport holders will need to have correct documentation (right to work in the UK) and a Home office Share code.
Address History:
5 years address history will be needed.
Applicants that are not UK Passport holders who provide less than 5 years UK address history will need to provide a Police Certificate which must be in English from where they resided previously.
Applicants who are UK Passport holders who have lived abroad for a period of more than six months during the last three years will need to provide a certificate of good conduct or an overseas police check in English from the countries resided in or visited.
In order to assist you in obtaining a Police Certificate, guidance can be soughtfrom:https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants
If the country you have resided in is not listed here, you can obtain the necessary information by contacting the relevant Embassy or High Commission for that Country. Their contact details can be found on the Foreign & Commonwealth Office website (http://www.fco.gov.uk/en).
Job description
Job responsibilities
Main research responsibilities will include; research administration, developing research skills and knowledge, writing reports and papers for publication and data management.
The clinical work will be to support and enhance the psychological well-being of people on probation/prisons within the community OPD service providing informal and formal support, psychological assessment and psychological interventions under the supervision of a qualified professional psychologist. This may include group and/or individual interventions.
Please see attached Job description for more detailed information.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION, PLEASE READ:
All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting in order to work in a Prison Setting. This will be completed as part of the pre-employment checks through Oxleas and the prison vetting team.
You will need to provide:
Proof of right to work documentation
Proof of ID, needs to include 1 photographic ID
Proof of address documentation
Non-UK passport holders will need to have correct documentation (right to work in the UK) and a Home office Share code.
Address History:
5 years address history will be needed.
Applicants that are not UK Passport holders who provide less than 5 years UK address history will need to provide a Police Certificate which must be in English from where they resided previously.
Applicants who are UK Passport holders who have lived abroad for a period of more than six months during the last three years will need to provide a certificate of good conduct or an overseas police check in English from the countries resided in or visited.
In order to assist you in obtaining a Police Certificate, guidance can be soughtfrom:https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants
If the country you have resided in is not listed here, you can obtain the necessary information by contacting the relevant Embassy or High Commission for that Country. Their contact details can be found on the Foreign & Commonwealth Office website (http://www.fco.gov.uk/en).
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- BPS approved Honours degree in Psychology or similar discipline, 2:1 or higher
Desirable
- MSc in Psychology (e.g. General, Forensic, or Abnormal) or similar discipline
Experience
Essential
- Experience of conducting both quantitative and qualitative research
Desirable
- Experience of working in a secure setting
- Experience of working with personality disorder
Experience
Essential
- Experience of performing literature searches
- Experience of interviewing patients with mental disorder or personality disorder
- Experience of conducting statistical analyses of data using SPSS
Desirable
- Experience of undertaking systematic literature reviews
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- BPS approved Honours degree in Psychology or similar discipline, 2:1 or higher
Desirable
- MSc in Psychology (e.g. General, Forensic, or Abnormal) or similar discipline
Experience
Essential
- Experience of conducting both quantitative and qualitative research
Desirable
- Experience of working in a secure setting
- Experience of working with personality disorder
Experience
Essential
- Experience of performing literature searches
- Experience of interviewing patients with mental disorder or personality disorder
- Experience of conducting statistical analyses of data using SPSS
Desirable
- Experience of undertaking systematic literature reviews
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
