Are you looking for a new challenge?

Would you like to work in, and be part of psychologically informed service?

Do you want to be part of a service that helps make real life changes to the lives of people with complex difficulties and presentations?

Then this may be the role for you…

An exciting opportunity has arisen to appoint a Probation Service Officer into the Hampshire & IOW Multiagency Personality Service (HMAPS). We are a specialised community service jointly commissioned between NHS England (NHSE) and His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS). The service comprises of the Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) Pathway and Intensive Interventions and Risk Management (IIRMS) service lines.

You will be part of a psychologically-informed service that provides consultation, psychological case management, formulation, intervention, and training to the National Probation Service. This is to assist with the management of people under probation supervision who have significant personality difficulties and who pose a high risk of serious harm to others/offending.

The intervention service (IIRMS) works directly with men and women who screen into the OPD pathway and require a higher level of support to successfully integrate into the community. Using a relational approach, and working within an attachment and trauma framework, support is offered at each stage of the sentence from pre-release, during release and for a significant period thereafter. You will work directly with the service users, using a collaboratively developed ‘formulation’ and sentence plan, actively supported by a multi-disciplinary team from both the NHS and the Probation Service.  Responsibility for case management of IIRMS clients remains with the community practitioner so this is generally an interventions focused role.

The expected outcomes of the service are to reduce repeat offending, improve psychological wellbeing, increase access to services, and to develop a workforce with the appropriate skills, attitudes, and confidence in working with this population. The post holder will contribute to this work and be given an opportunity to develop their skills and experience within this forward-thinking service.

Your formal base will be a Probation Office near your home location but you will be expected to travel to work in Probation Offices across Hampshire. The team meet regularly at Ravenswood House in Fareham and so regular travel to that site is also expected. The role will require some work in Prisons and at local Approved Premises. It may also require supporting and accompanying clients to external appointments such as GP registration, bank account set up, benefits assessments or to pursue hobbies and sports activities. As such, a flexible approach is required, with a willingness to travel.

You will be line managed by a Senior Probation Officer within the local OPD partnership. You will work in a multi-disciplinary team alongside probation officers, psychologists and skills facilitators. Support will be provided in working effectively with people with personality/relational difficulties.

There will be opportunities to develop areas of expertise with benefits, housing and/or substance misuse. We welcome applications from existing or new PSO's with backgrounds in any of these areas.