Overview
An exciting opportunity to evaluate 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 is a consortium of 5 NHS trusts delivering 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 OPD Pathway and supports robust, ethical, and impactful research focused on experiences, risks, transitions, and outcomes of individuals with traits of probable personality disorder and complex needs across custodial and community settings.
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 help ensure that the research informs trauma-informed, psychologically informed, and evidence-based practice across the OPD pathway. The post will be split 0.8 WTE focusing on research and 0.2 WTE focusing on clinical work in one of the LPP\'s community/prison OPD services (exact service location to be confirmed at interview).
Responsibilities
* Contribute to mixed-methods evaluations, longitudinal studies, and feasibility research related to OPD pathway interventions.
* Focus on participant recruitment, fieldwork, data analysis, and stakeholder engagement to inform practice and policy.
* Collaborate with NHS, HMPPS, and academic partners to translate findings into trauma-informed, psychologically informed, and evidence-based practice.
* Support the delivery of research activities within custodial and community settings and contribute to dissemination of results.
Work Arrangement
The post is 0.8 WTE dedicated to research and 0.2 WTE dedicated to clinical work within one of the LPP\'s community/prison OPD services. Exact service location will be confirmed at interview.
About Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust / LPP
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure settings, including community health care (e.g., district nursing, speech and language therapy) and mental health care (psychiatry, nursing and therapies). The multidisciplinary teams work with the NHS, local councils, and the voluntary sector across 4,300 staff at over 125 sites in the South of England, including London boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, and into Kent. The Trust operates hospital sites such as Queen Mary\'s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre (a medium secure unit).
Oxleas is the largest NHS provider of prison health services, delivering care to prisons in Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families, guided by our values: We\'re Kind, We\'re Fair, We Listen, We Care.
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