Overview
Mersey Care NHS Trust is the health provider for an innovative prison-based assessment and treatment service for residents with personality related needs. This service is based within HMP Garth, a category B men's adult prison in Leyland, Lancashire, and is delivered in partnership with Mersey Care NHS Trust as part of the National Offender Personality Disorder Strategy. The post is part of a psychologically led service with formulation and integrated team working at its core, providing 1:1 and group interventions based on Professor John Livesley’s framework and model of interventions for individuals with personality related needs.
Interventions are delivered within a therapeutic milieu focusing on attachment, trauma and systemic approaches, alongside comprehensive risk assessment and management. Core aims align with the Offender Personality Disorder Pathway: improving psychological wellbeing, reducing risk, enhancing staff skills and competencies, and delivering pathway-focused interventions.
Responsibilities
* Join a dedicated multi-disciplinary team of clinical and prison staff and contribute to the ongoing development of the service.
* Contribute to the systematic provision of specialised therapeutic services to residents within the Beacon.
* Deliver structured 1:1 and group interventions as part of the therapeutic milieu.
* Participate in risk assessment and management processes in collaboration with colleagues across disciplines.
* Support service transformation initiatives to improve quality of care while ensuring safe operations within a prison environment.
Qualifications and Experience
* Registered mental health nurse with additional training in a psychological therapy (e.g., CAT, DBT, MBT, EMDR, Schema Therapy).
* Experience of working with individuals with complex clinical and risk presentations, including within institutional settings and as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
* Experience with clients whose needs may meet criteria for a personality disorder and who may find it difficult to engage with services.
* Ability to navigate complex service and organisational settings and to manage personal, professional and ethical opportunities and challenges this work can involve.
Organisation and Service Context
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across the region, with commissioned services covering the North West, North Wales and the Midlands. The trust offers specialist inpatient and community services for physical and mental health, along with specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. It is one of only three trusts in the UK to offer high secure mental health facilities.
What We Offer
At the heart of our approach is a commitment to “perfect care” – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job possible and work with service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We are delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to improve quality and reduce costs while maintaining high standards of care.
Additional Information
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles. Full details of the main responsibilities are in the job description and person specification. We welcome visits to the service; please contact us to arrange this or discuss the post further. This advert closes on Sunday 17 May 2026.
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