Serco Plc
Clinical Lead
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Therapeutic Community Clinical Lead – Justice and Immigration Psychological Services
Location: HMP Dovegate, Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST14 8XRS Salary: Up to £63,000 per annum, dependent on experience plus excellent benefits Schedule: Permanent, 40 hours per week
About the Role
Ready to impact a better future?
As a Therapeutic Community Clinical Lead within our Justice and Immigration psychological services team, you’ll lead and shape a high-performing Therapeutic Community, ensuring the consistent delivery of accredited, high-quality psychological interventions that help reduce reoffending and support lasting change.
This is a senior clinical leadership role with real reach and purpose. Your responsibilities will include embedding and sustaining Therapeutic Community principles, creating a safe, effective and values-led environment where colleagues and residents can grow. Your work will directly support rehabilitation, wellbeing and safer communities.
Responsibilities
You’ll be entrusted to:
- Lead and line manage a multi-disciplinary clinical team, ensuring safe, ethical and effective therapeutic delivery
- Maintain accreditation, quality assurance and governance standards across the Therapeutic Community
- Provide clinical leadership, supervision and professional development to colleagues
- Ensure the delivery of psychotherapeutic interventions aligned to accredited core models
- Collaborate with operational colleagues to support integrated custodial and clinical delivery
- Represent the Therapeutic Community at regional and national forums, contributing to best practice and innovation
- Monitor and maintain compliance with contractual KPIs at community level
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Requirements
This position is ideal for candidates who:
- Hold a recognised professional qualification and registration in psychotherapy, clinical psychology, counselling, or forensic psychology or group analysis
- Have significant post-qualification experience within forensic or secure mental health settings
- Demonstrate proven experience leading or supervising clinicians within a therapeutic environment
- Show awareness of Therapeutic Community models and the ability to work using a psychodynamic or integrative psychotherapy approach
- Possess the confidence to make complex clinical decisions and influence across professional boundaries
Why Join Serco?
We are one of the top 1% of international employers, investing in a highly supportive culture where leaders help you achieve your goals. Discover exciting opportunities for growth:
Benefits
- Holidays: 23 days + bank holidays
- Pension: Contributory scheme with up to 6% contribution
- Training & Development:
- Over 1,100 internal courses
- Funding for qualifications and apprenticeships
- Mentoring opportunities
- Focus on internal progression
- Health & Wellbeing:
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Bupa Anytime HealthLine
- Wellbeing app
- 30% discount at Serco-managed leisure centres
- 24/7 virtual GP access
- Discounts:
- Discounts across 1,000+ retailers (food, clothing, travel, entertainment)
- Charity & Community:
- Paid volunteering days
- Tax-free charitable giving via Payroll Giving Scheme
- Donation of spare pay directly to Serco People Fund Charity
- Employee Networks:
- SercoInspire (Gender)
- SercoEmbrace (Multicultural)
- SercoUnlimited (Disability)
- In@Serco (LGBTQIA+)
- Networks supporting inclusion and belonging for all backgrounds: parents/carers, veterans, and individuals with disabilities
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About Serco
At Serco, our mission extends beyond delivering essential public services—every employee has an important role to play in improving lives. Our 50,000+ team globally operates in defence, transport, justice, immigration, healthcare, and citizen services, committed to innovation and reform for the benefit of society.
By joining Serco, you’ll gain access to Global Employee Networks focused on empowerment, diversity, and inclusion.
Inclusion & Fairness
Serco welcomes applications from a diverse candidate pool and provides equal opportunities. Discussions about flexible working are supported, and hybrid working structures exist in many business areas. We are a Disability Confident Leader and hold the Gold Inclusive Employer Standard. Applicants with disabilities meeting the minimum criteria will be considered further. For help with your application, contact 0345 010 4000.
Serco supports fair access to employment for candidates with unspent criminal convictions (within role/exemption limits) through our Ban the Box initiative.
Serco’s pledge never ends—Let’s impact a better future, together. Apply today.
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