Women's Transitional Mental Health Lead (FTC)
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 17/08/2026
- Closes
- 31/08/2026
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Role summary
This role involves leading a pilot service supporting women with complex mental health needs and offending histories as they transition from custody to the community. You will provide liaison and advocacy, manage a small caseload, and build relationships with various professionals. The position requires a Psychologist, Social Worker, or Mental Health Nurse, and involves remote working with travel across Thames Valley and occasional prison visits. It is a 24-month fixed-term contract.
Essential criteria
- This role is responsible for supporting women with complex mental health and personality difficulties as they transition from custody into the community. Please describe a specific example where you have coordinated care across multiple organisations during a complex transition.
- Question 2
- Describe a time when you worked with a woman with complex trauma, personality difficulties or multiple and complex needs whose engagement with services was challenging. Explain: How you formulated the difficulties presented? How you adapted your approach to remain trauma-informed? How you built and maintained a therapeutic relationship the impact your intervention had.
- Question 3
- The successful candidate will work closely with prisons, probation, Approved Premises, NHS services and voluntary organisations to improve outcomes for women. Tell us about a time you successfully influenced professionals from different organisations to improve a person's care or reduce barriers between services.
- Question 4
- Women supported by this service often present with significant mental health needs, trauma histories, offending behaviour and complex risks. Describe a situation where you had to make a difficult clinical or professional decision involving competing priorities such as engagement, safeguarding, public protection or risk management.
- Question 1
- This role is responsible for supporting women with complex mental health and personality difficulties as they transition from custody into the community. Please describe a specific example where you have coordinated care across multiple organisations during a complex transition.
- Question 2
- Describe a time when you worked with a woman with complex trauma, personality difficulties or multiple and complex needs whose engagement with services was challenging. Explain: How you formulated the difficulties presented? How you adapted your approach to remain trauma-informed? How you built and maintained a therapeutic relationship the impact your intervention had.
- Question 3
- The successful candidate will work closely with prisons, probation, Approved Premises, NHS services and voluntary organisations to improve outcomes for women. Tell us about a time you successfully influenced professionals from different organisations to improve a person's care or reduce barriers between services.
- Question 4
- Women supported by this service often present with significant mental health needs, trauma histories, offending behaviour and complex risks. Describe a situation where you had to make a difficult clinical or professional decision involving competing priorities such as engagement, safeguarding, public protection or risk management.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £49,387 – £56,515 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Oxford Health NHS Trust
Women's Transitional Mental Health Lead (FTC)
The closing date is 31 August 2026
Job summary
Are you passionate about working with women in the Criminal Justice System and looking to develop your leadership skills?
We are now recruiting to this Women's Transitional Mental Health Lead within theThames Valley Offender Personality Disorder Pathway , developing and leading a pilot service supporting women with complex mental health needs and significant offending histories to successfully move on from custody. This transition is often a time of increased anxiety, especially for women who have experienced significant trauma and adversity.
To be successful in this role, you should be a Psychologist (newly qualified or experienced), Social Worker or Mental Health Nurse.
You will provide liaison and advocacy to support women to access and engage with relevant services and will carry a small caseload of women to support directly. You will build strong working relationships with professionals from a variety of settings including prison, probation and community mental health and social care.
You will join a specialist and highly supportive team with regular CPD and excellent opportunities for career development.
This post will be fixed-term for 24 months.
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