About the service
HMAPS is a specialised community service jointly commissioned between NHS England (NHSE) and Her 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.
What we do
HMAPS is a small specialist team providing consultation, psychological case management, formulation, intervention, and training to the National Probation Service within Hampshire. This is a psychologically informed service, which takes a relational approach and works within an attachment and trauma framework. Our aim is to inform and assist in the management of those offenders who have significant personality difficulties and who pose a high risk of serious harm to others and/or reoffending. The team also offers consultation to other community health services working with service users with a forensic history or have concerns with risk.
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.
Our multidisciplinary team includes Clinical and Forensic Psychologists, Clinical Nurse Specialists, Occupational Therapists, Probation Officers, Assistant Psychologists and OT Assistants.
Our service aims and objectives are to:
- Improve public protection - reduction in repeat serious sexual and/or violent offending and recall to prison
- Improve psychological health, wellbeing, pro-social behaviour and relational outcomes for service users
- Improve competence, confidence and attitudes of staff working with service users who are likely to have complex presentations and significant and problematic personality issues
- Increase access to services in the community to ensure that treatment and management of service users is psychologically informed through consultation, intervention, training and supervision
Meeting the criteria for this service does not mean you have a diagnosis of personality disorder. Some people we work with do have a diagnosis of personality disorder, some people don’t. Our service focuses on each individual and takes an understanding and compassionate approach.
For clinical professionals we offer a range of services:
Workforce Development
- We provide psychologically informed consultation and formulation to probation staff working with high-risk people on probation who screen into the OPD Pathway.
- We provide training to probation staff to increase knowledge, confidence, and skills with working with people on probation who present with significant personality difficulties linked to their developmental histories, past and offending, and risk.
Consultation
Any concerns about risk management will be discussed during a consultation and recommendations around pathway planning will be provided. Clinicians will provide a formulation document which aims to help understand a person’s presentation and behaviour
For service users (for a small number of cases, who meet the criteria for the service)
- Psychologically informed individual case working and management
- Individual and/or group-based psycho-educational interventions
- Outreach- Support for clinical integration
Accessing the service
If you require access to the service for your service user, please contact the team’s Personality Disorder Probation Officer (PDPO) or email on hampshireiowmaps@southernhealth.nhs.uk (Mon-Fri from 9am-5pm). They can discuss your concerns and requirements with you and check if the person screens into the pathway.
Alternatively, if your service user has automatically screened into the pathway, via their OASyS, the HMAPS administrator will contact their Probation Officer to offer a consultation with a HMAPS clinician.
During this consultation, the HMAPS clinician will develop a joint psychological formulation. Psychological formulation is a way of understanding an individual, their strengths, difficulties and how their past experiences may impact their presentation today. The HMAPS clinicians may make recommendations around how best to support the person on probation.
Following a consultation (if it has been identified that the person on probation may benefit from our intervention service) we may then joint casework, which involves a meeting between the HMAPS clinician, the person on probation and their Probation Practitioner. This session is to define the person on probations current needs and goals, assess the individuals willing to engage and to gain consent.
If appropriate, support under IIRMS will be offered.
For an informal discussion regarding a referral, please contact your Probation Officer or email hampshireiowmaps@southernhealth.nhs.uk (Mon-Fri from 9am-5pm).
How to find us
Ravenswood House
Mayles Lane
Knowle
Fareham
Hampshire
PO17 5NA
Contact information
02382 310800 (Monday – Friday, 9am-5pm)