Currently employed as a clinical and forensic consultant psychologist, head of the clinical and forensic psychology service at Rampton Hospital Nottinghamshire healthcare Trust. He has worked in community, prison and high secure hospital settings with people who have offended. He teaches on the Nottingham D. Foren. Psych. and the Leicester and Sheffield D. Clin. Psych. courses. He is an honorary associate (clinical) professor at Nottingham University. He is a former chair of the DFP and was involved in setting up the Scottish, Northern Irish and Welsh divisions of the DFP. He has published on Therapeutic communities, motivation and engagement, working with people with personality disorder diagnoses who have offended, iatrogenic interventions, offence paralleling behaviour, working with people who have offended sexually, formulation, assessment, and trauma informed care in forensic settings. He has delivered invited workshops on offence paralleling behaviour, trauma informed work with people who offended, interventions with people with 'personality disorder' diagnoses, and motivation and engagement.