Job summary
Reducing Restrictive
Interventions Training Lead (RRIT)
Our Central Division plays a vital role in ensuring that our
operational and administrative functions are delivered efficiently, enabling us
to maintain the highest standards of care across our organisation.
We're hiring a Reducing Restrictive Interventions Training
Lead (RRIT).
This is a full time role, 37.5 hours per week.
Location of the role:
This remote working working regional role involves
occasional national travel with frequent travel to services and training
venues, so flexibility and organisation are essential.
Main duties of the job
What you'll be doing
- Lead the development, delivery and quality assurance of the physical intervention team (RRIT) and curriculum across the division. Youll provide expert leadership to instructors, drive BILD accreditation and ensure compliance with RRN standards. This role combines strategic oversight with hands-on training delivery and continuous improvement. Collaborate across departments to embed best practice and reduce restrictive interventions organisation-wide.
- Provide visible leadership and expert guidance on all aspects of the Physical Interventions curriculum (RRI), ensuring compliance with RRN standards and organisational policy.
- Lead, line manage and support the senior divisional RRI instructors, driving quality assurance, performance and continuous improvement across all services.
- Oversee curriculum design, evaluation and accreditation, including leading the BILD accreditation process and ensuring best practice and collaboration underpins all training delivery.
- Coordinate divisional audits and governance reporting, analysing trends and outcomes to inform safe and effective practice.
- Collaborate across departments and service networks to embed learning and reduce reliance on restrictive interventions
About us
Priory is the leading independent provider of mental health
and adult social care in the UK. We support 26,000 people a year to move
towards a healthier future so they can live their lives as fully and
independently as possible. We treat more than 70 conditions, including
depression, anxiety, and eating disorders, as well as childrens mental health,
across our nationwide network of sites. We also support autistic adults and
adults with a learning disability, Prader-Willi Syndrome and brain injuries, as
well as older people, within specialist residential care and supported living
facilities.
With over 13,000 colleagues working at Priory, we have a
long and prestigious history, and an unrivalled reputation for making a real
and lasting difference to the lives of every individual in our care.
Priory is part of MEDIAN Group, a leading pan-European
provider of mental health, specialist care and rehabilitation services,
focussed on restoring quality of life through effective, evidenced and
data-driven care.
Priory is committed to providing a fully inclusive and
accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility
support we can offer, read more here.
All roles will be subject to a successful disclosure at an
appropriate level from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), Access NI or
Disclosure Scotland. We are an equal opportunities employer. Priory will cover
the cost of a DBS check.
Job description
Job responsibilities
See job description attached in full
Lead the development, delivery and quality assurance of the physical intervention team (RRIT) and curriculum across the division. Youll provide expert leadership to instructors, drive BILD accreditation and ensure compliance with RRN standards. This role combines strategic oversight with hands-on training delivery and continuous improvement. Collaborate across departments to embed best practice and reduce restrictive interventions organisation-wide.
- Provide visible leadership and expert guidance on all aspects of the Physical Interventions curriculum (RRI), ensuring compliance with RRN standards and organisational policy.
- Lead, line manage and support the senior divisional RRI instructors, driving quality assurance, performance and continuous improvement across all services.
- Oversee curriculum design, evaluation and accreditation, including leading the BILD accreditation process and ensuring best practice and collaboration underpins all training delivery.
- Coordinate divisional audits and governance reporting, analysing trends and outcomes to inform safe and effective practice.
- Collaborate across departments and service networks to embed learning and reduce reliance on restrictive interventions
Job description
Job responsibilities
See job description attached in full
Lead the development, delivery and quality assurance of the physical intervention team (RRIT) and curriculum across the division. Youll provide expert leadership to instructors, drive BILD accreditation and ensure compliance with RRN standards. This role combines strategic oversight with hands-on training delivery and continuous improvement. Collaborate across departments to embed best practice and reduce restrictive interventions organisation-wide.
- Provide visible leadership and expert guidance on all aspects of the Physical Interventions curriculum (RRI), ensuring compliance with RRN standards and organisational policy.
- Lead, line manage and support the senior divisional RRI instructors, driving quality assurance, performance and continuous improvement across all services.
- Oversee curriculum design, evaluation and accreditation, including leading the BILD accreditation process and ensuring best practice and collaboration underpins all training delivery.
- Coordinate divisional audits and governance reporting, analysing trends and outcomes to inform safe and effective practice.
- Collaborate across departments and service networks to embed learning and reduce reliance on restrictive interventions
Person Specification
What you will bring to the role
Essential
- An experienced professional with advanced expertise in preventing and managing violence and aggression, including de-escalation and physical intervention. Youll be a current or previous certified instructor in a recognised physical intervention programme (PMVA/MAPA/RRN or equivalent) with strong knowledge of BILD accreditation and RRN Standards.
- Youll have proven experience leading teams, delivering high-quality training, and producing clear reports, with excellent communication, coaching and influencing skills.
- This position is a leadership role at Priory and during the interview process we will be assessing candidates against our leadership behaviours. These are a set of ten values driven behaviours that define great leadership at Priory. They are integral to driving a positive high performing culture where we strive to deliver the best care and outcomes for the people we support. You can find out more about our interview approach and our leadership behaviours here - https://jobs.priorygroup.com/how-we-hire
Person Specification
What you will bring to the role
Essential
- An experienced professional with advanced expertise in preventing and managing violence and aggression, including de-escalation and physical intervention. Youll be a current or previous certified instructor in a recognised physical intervention programme (PMVA/MAPA/RRN or equivalent) with strong knowledge of BILD accreditation and RRN Standards.
- Youll have proven experience leading teams, delivering high-quality training, and producing clear reports, with excellent communication, coaching and influencing skills.
- This position is a leadership role at Priory and during the interview process we will be assessing candidates against our leadership behaviours. These are a set of ten values driven behaviours that define great leadership at Priory. They are integral to driving a positive high performing culture where we strive to deliver the best care and outcomes for the people we support. You can find out more about our interview approach and our leadership behaviours here - https://jobs.priorygroup.com/how-we-hire
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.