Job Description

Reducing Restrictive Interventions Training Lead (RRIT)
Our Central Division plays a vital role in ensuring that our operational and administrative functions are delivered efficiently, enabling us to maintain the highest standards of care across our organisation.
We're hiring a Reducing Restrictive Interventions Training Lead (RRIT).
This is a full time role, 37.5 hours per week.
Location of the role:
This remote working working regional role involves occasional national travel with frequent travel to services and training venues, so flexibility and organisation are essential.
Main duties of the job
What you'll be doing

• Lead the development, delivery and quality assurance of the physical intervention team (RRIT) and curriculum across the division. Youll provide expert leadership to instructors, drive BILD accreditation and ensure compliance with RRN standards. This role combines strategic oversight with hands-on training delivery and continuous improvement. Collaborate across departments to embed best practice and reduce restrictive interventions organisation-wide.
• Provide visible leadership and expert guidance on all aspects of the Physical Interventions curriculum (RRI), ensuring compliance with RRN standards and organisational policy.
• Lead, line manage and support the senior divisional RRI instructors, driving quality assurance, performance and continuous improvement across all services.
• Oversee curriculum design, evaluation and accreditation, including leading the BILD accreditation process and ensuring best practice and collaboration underpins all training delivery.
• Coordinate divisional audits and governance reporting, analysing trends and outcomes to inform safe and effective practice.
• Collaborate across departments and service networks to embed learning and reduce reliance on restrictive interventions

About us
Priory is the leading independent provider of mental health and adult social care in the UK. We support 26,000 people a year to move towards a healthier future so they can live their lives as fully and independently as possible. We treat more than 70 conditions, including depression, anxiety, and eating disorders, as well as childrens mental health, across our nationwide network of sites. We also support autistic adults and adults with a learning disability, Prader-Willi Syndrome and brain injuries, as well as older people, within specialist residential care and supported living facilities.
With over 13,000 colleagues working at Priory, we have a long and prestigious history, and an unrivalled reputation for making a real and lasting difference to the lives of every individual in our care.
Priory is part of MEDIAN Group, a leading pan-European provider of mental health, specialist care and rehabilitation services, focussed on restoring quality of life through effective, evidenced and data-driven care.
Priory is committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, read more here.
All roles will be subject to a successful disclosure at an appropriate level from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), Access NI or Disclosure Scotland. We are an equal opportunities employer. Priory will cover the cost of a DBS check.
Details
Date posted
14 November 2025
Pay scheme
Other
Salary
50,000 a year Car allowance payment per month
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Home or remote working
Reference number
E0358-25-0026
Job locations
Priory Group
3 Shortlands
London
W6 8DA
Job description
Job responsibilities
See job description attached in full
Lead the development, delivery and quality assurance of the physical intervention team (RRIT) and curriculum across the division. Youll provide expert leadership to instructors, drive BILD accreditation and ensure compliance with RRN standards. This role combines strategic oversight with hands-on training delivery and continuous improvement. Collaborate across departments to embed best practice and reduce restrictive interventions organisation-wide.

• Provide visible leadership and expert guidance on all aspects of the Physical Interventions curriculum (RRI), ensuring compliance with RRN standards and organisational policy.
• Lead, line manage and support the senior divisional RRI instructors, driving quality assurance, performance and continuous improvement across all services.
• Oversee curriculum design, evaluation and accreditation, including leading the BILD accreditation process and ensuring best practice and collaboration underpins all training delivery.
• Coordinate divisional audits and governance reporting, analysing trends and outcomes to inform safe and effective practice.
• Collaborate across departments and service networks to embed learning and reduce reliance on restrictive interventions

Job description
Job responsibilities
See job description attached in full
Lead the development, delivery and quality assurance of the physical intervention team (RRIT) and curriculum across the division. Youll provide expert leadership to instructors, drive BILD accreditation and ensure compliance with RRN standards. This role combines strategic oversight with hands-on training delivery and continuous improvement. Collaborate across departments to embed best practice and reduce restrictive interventions organisation-wide.

• Provide visible leadership and expert guidance on all aspects of the Physical Interventions curriculum (RRI), ensuring compliance with RRN standards and organisational policy.
• Lead, line manage and support the senior divisional RRI instructors, driving quality assurance, performance and continuous improvement across all services.
• Oversee curriculum design, evaluation and accreditation, including leading the BILD accreditation process and ensuring best practice and collaboration underpins all training delivery.
• Coordinate divisional audits and governance reporting, analysing trends and outcomes to inform safe and effective practice.
• Collaborate across departments and service networks to embed learning and reduce reliance on restrictive interventions

Person Specification
What you will bring to the role
Essential

• An experienced professional with advanced expertise in preventing and managing violence and aggression, including de-escalation and physical intervention. Youll be a current or previous certified instructor in a recognised physical intervention programme (PMVA/MAPA/RRN or equivalent) with strong knowledge of BILD accreditation and RRN Standards.
• Youll have proven experience leading teams, delivering high-quality training, and producing clear reports, with excellent communication, coaching and influencing skills.
• This position is a leadership role at Priory and during the interview process we will be assessing candidates against our leadership behaviours. These are a set of ten values driven behaviours that define great leadership at Priory. They are integral to driving a positive high performing culture where we strive to deliver the best care and outcomes for the people we support. You can find out more about our interview approach and our leadership behaviours here - https://jobs.priorygroup.com/how-we-hire

Person Specification
What you will bring to the role
Essential

• An experienced professional with advanced expertise in preventing and managing violence and aggression, including de-escalation and physical intervention. Youll be a current or previous certified instructor in a recognised physical intervention programme (PMVA/MAPA/RRN or equivalent) with strong knowledge of BILD accreditation and RRN Standards.
• Youll have proven experience leading teams, delivering high-quality training, and producing clear reports, with excellent communication, coaching and influencing skills.
• This position is a leadership role at Priory and during the interview process we will be assessing candidates against our leadership behaviours. These are a set of ten values driven behaviours that define great leadership at Priory. They are integral to driving a positive high performing culture where we strive to deliver the best care and outcomes for the people we support. You can find out more about our interview approach and our leadership behaviours here - https://jobs.priorygroup.com/how-we-hire

Skills Required