Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist
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Job Description: Specialist Occupational Therapist at HMP Hindley
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is pleased to be supporting the provision of Occupational Therapy on the PIPE at HMP Hindley, working in close partnership with custodial staff and North West Psychology Services who are the lead providers of the service.
HMP Hindley is Category C male prison located in Wigan.
About the Preparation PIPE at HMP Hindley
The Preparation PIPE at HMP Hindley is a specialist 10-bed residential unit within a training prison, forming part of the national Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) Pathway. The service provides a psychologically informed, supportive environment for individuals with complex personality-related needs who are not yet ready to engage in structured treatment interventions. The PIPE focuses on building engagement, emotional stability, and interpersonal skills through consistent relational practice, structured activities, and dedicated keywork. Staff are trained to work in a psychologically informed way, using everyday interactions to support behaviour change, improve relationships, and reduce risk. The service aims to prepare residents to progress to more intensive OPD interventions, enhance their ability to manage risk and relationships, and support safe and effective progression through their sentence.
About the Role
We are recruiting a Specialist Occupational Therapist to join the team at HMP Hindley. The candidate will ensure the delivery of a high-quality Occupational Therapy service within the PIPE.
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This is a unique and autonomous role, with the post holder as the sole Occupational Therapist on the PIPE, working alongside a multi-disciplinary team of operational staff and forensic psychology colleagues. They will deliver specialist occupational therapy assessment, formulation, and intervention, including individual and group work, supporting those with complex clinical and risk presentations.
The role focuses on promoting occupational engagement, psychological wellbeing, and pro-social functioning through therapeutic, recreational, and supportive activities. The post holder will also contribute across the PIPE and wider prison, enhancing psychologically informed workforce capacity and supporting a relational approach to care and risk management.
Requirements
The successful candidate will have experience working with individuals with complex needs who may struggle to engage, ideally in secure or institutional settings. They will be confident managing professional, ethical, and organisational challenges in a complex environment and able to work both autonomously and collaboratively.
Support and Management
The post holder will be professionally supported and line managed by the OPD service at HMP Garth, which has an established Occupational Therapy team with extensive experience delivering services in similar settings.
About Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
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.
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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.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Debbie Brennand
- Job Title: Clinical Services Manager - Prison Services
- Email Address: debbie.brennand@merseycare.nhs.uk
- Telephone Number: 07443441371
Additional Contact:
- Name: Anna Taylor
- Job Title: Clinical Team Manager and Registered Occupational Therapist - HMP Garth
- Email Address: Anna.Taylor@merseycare.nhs.uk
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