Consultant Clinical or Forensic Psychologist / Deputy Clinical Lead

The Beacon is looking for a Consultant Clinical or Forensic Psychologist to provide maternity leave cover for 12 months. The successful candidate will share our passion for the aboveprinciples and values and will be motivated to support the leadership and management team on the further development and maintenance of thesame across our respective partner agencies, and within and across the national OPD pathway.

You will have a demonstrable commitment to the provision of the highest standards of care and service delivery for individuals and services withcomplex clinical and risk needs. You will have a clear and proven ability to engage and provide clinical leadership within teams including withincomplex service and systemic contexts .

You will value the challenges and opportunities involved in supporting the clinical leadership of the service and in collaborating with partnercolleagues and service users. You will have a sophisticated knowledge of the needs and strengths of individuals who may meet criteria for adiagnosis of personality disorder, or personality difficulties. You will have equal knowledge and ability to act in a senior role in leading andsupporting staff teams to manage the personal, professional and ethical challenges and opportunities work within this area can involve.The post involves working in close partnership with operational managers and with the service Custodial Manager and with clinical and officercolleagues in the wider multidisciplinary team.

The Beacon is a prison-based assessment and treatment service for men with personality related needs underlying their risk and offendingbehaviour. It is a partnership based service between Merseycare Foundation Trust and HMP Garth and is located within HMP Garth in Leyland,Lancashire.

The service is part of the National Offender Personality Disorder Pathway of services. It provides a range of group based and 1:1 interventions aspart a therapeutic milieu which involves a focus on attachment, trauma and systemic interventions, alongside comprehensive risk assessment andmanagement.

Core aims of the service are consistent with those of the Offender Personality Disorder Pathway in improving psychological wellbeing, reducing risk, improving staff skills and competencies and formulation and pathway focussed interventions.

The service has a positive, enthusiastic and dedicated partnership team who have a commitment to creative and diverse interventions, to reflective practice and discussion, and to promoting genuine collaborative and compassionate working with all our service users. We have anequal commitment to understanding men and their behaviour in the context of their lives, and to engaging and working with the complex factorsinvolved in change and rehabilitation at all levels of service delivery and development., 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 our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.