Good Lives Practitioner
At a glance
- Band
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 14/09/2026
- Closes
- 27/09/2026
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Role summary
This role involves supporting the assessment and delivery of practical psychosocial interventions for individuals with offending histories and associated interpersonal difficulties within the Thames Valley region. The practitioner will work collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team, engaging service users, and contributing to recovery-focused care plans under the supervision of qualified clinicians. Key responsibilities include supporting intervention planning, data collection for service evaluation, and maintaining relationships with partner agencies like Probation Services.
Essential criteria
- An upper second class honours degree or higher in psychology or similar social science subject.
Desirable criteria
- Further training relevant in relevant areas of psychology, social science or mental health.
- Experience of working with difficult to engage populations, particularly individuals with interpersonal difficulties and/or diagnosed personality disorders.
- Experience of working with people from a range of diverse social and ethnic backgrounds.
- Experience of multi-disciplinary working and in the development and maintenance of professional relationships with external partner agencies.
- Effective skills in using supervision, which includes self-reflective skills around workload monitoring, personal development and performance appraisal.
- Experience of motivating people to attend sessions or take part in tasks / activities
- Experience of working in forensic settings or with people with offending histories.
- Experience of planning and running therapeutic interventions.
- kowledge & Skills
- Understanding of risk factors associated with working with service users within offending histories and personality difficulties and how to manage these risks effectively.
- Demonstrates a professional approach including boundary keeping to relationships with staff and service users.
- Ability to work as a team member, remaining adaptable to changing demands within the team.
- Able to solve problem and use solution-focused approaches and recognise own limitations.
- High level communication skills (written and verbal) including an ability to communicate and work in settings in which the atmosphere may be highly emotive.
- Knowledge of Criminal Justice System structure and procedures.
- Personal
- Ability to maintain high level of professionalism when faced with highly distressing material, problems and circumstances, including challenging behaviour, verbal abuse and occasional threatened physical abuse from clients
- An ability to reflect on their practice with peers and within supervision.
- Ability to work independently, reliably and consistently with work agreed and managed at regular intervals.
- Ability to accept and use supervision appropriately and effectively.
- Other
- Driving licence and access to a vehicle.
- Ability to travel between sites as required by service delivery.
- An upper second class honours degree or higher in psychology or similar social science subject.
- Further training relevant in relevant areas of psychology, social science or mental health.
- Experience of working with difficult to engage populations, particularly individuals with interpersonal difficulties and/or diagnosed personality disorders.
- Experience of working with people from a range of diverse social and ethnic backgrounds.
- Experience of multi-disciplinary working and in the development and maintenance of professional relationships with external partner agencies.
- Effective skills in using supervision, which includes self-reflective skills around workload monitoring, personal development and performance appraisal.
- Experience of motivating people to attend sessions or take part in tasks / activities
- Experience of working in forensic settings or with people with offending histories.
- Experience of planning and running therapeutic interventions.
- kowledge & Skills
- Understanding of risk factors associated with working with service users within offending histories and personality difficulties and how to manage these risks effectively.
- Demonstrates a professional approach including boundary keeping to relationships with staff and service users.
- Ability to work as a team member, remaining adaptable to changing demands within the team.
- Able to solve problem and use solution-focused approaches and recognise own limitations.
- High level communication skills (written and verbal) including an ability to communicate and work in settings in which the atmosphere may be highly emotive.
- Knowledge of Criminal Justice System structure and procedures.
- Personal
- Ability to maintain high level of professionalism when faced with highly distressing
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 4 at £26,530 – £29,114 a year, across England.
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Oxford Health NHS Trust
Good Lives Practitioner
The closing date is 27 September 2026
Job summary
Are you looking for a new challenge within an innovative NHS service? Do you have a compassionate, creative approach and a commitment to trauma-informed care and supporting people with complex needs?
We are recruiting a Good Lives Practitioner to join our team across the Thames Valley region.
The Enhanced Intensive Intervention and Risk Management Service (EIIRMS) is a specialist partnership between Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust and HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS). The service aims to improve psychological wellbeing, address barriers to engagement, reduce risk linked to offending, and minimise the risk of serious harm.
The role involves supporting the assessment and delivery of practical psychosocial interventions under the supervision of qualified clinicians, engaging service users, and contributing to recovery-focused, multidisciplinary care plans.
Main duties of the job
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Work collaboratively with members of the Thames Valley Integrated OPD Pathway Service multidisciplinary team to develop and deliver appropriate psychosocial interventions for service users.
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Support the planning, development, and delivery of a psychosocial and psychologically informed service for individuals with offending histories and associated interpersonal diffi
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