This is an exciting opportunity to join a newly commissioned Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) Service. The service provides an OPD outreach service to men within HMP High Down and a specialist residential Psychologically Informed Planned Environment (PIPE) unit for men with learning disabilities. The services form part of the national Men’s OPD pathway, and the LD PIPE is a national first.

You will be joining a staff team that will include Psychologists, a Neurodiversity Practitioner, an Occupational Therapist, and Prison Officers. We are seeking a compassionate & enthusiastic Support Time Recovery Worker with an interest in helping service users to develop the skills and knowledge needed to live independently on progression from the service.

This is a London Pathways Partnership (LPP) service, with CNWL as the lead provider. LPP is a consortium of 5 NHS Trusts working in partnership to deliver a network of services to complex and high-risk service users in London & the Southeast. LPP delivers integrated services, primarily within the OPD pathway across the London community & within several local prisons, thus ensuring a supported prison-to-community pathway. LPP also has an active staff development programme, which may include training & accredited supervision in specialist therapies provision. We actively support research and have close relationships with academics from several local universities.

Main duties of the job

• To assist in the day-to-day running of the Progression PIPE and Outreach service, including facilitating group skills and social-creative sessions and contributing to multi-disciplinary meetings.
• To work as a member of the multi-disciplinary team supporting and enhancing the psychological well-being of residents within the OPD services in HMP High Down.
• To support the work of occupational and psychological therapists and work as a member of the multi-disciplinary team supporting and enhancing the psychological well-being of residents within the OPD services in HMP High Down.
• To assist in the day-to-day running of the Progression PIPE and Outreach service, including facilitating group skills and social-creative sessions, and contributing to multi-disciplinary meetings