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Therapeutic Community Clinical Lead

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Therapeutic Community Clinical Lead
Location: HMP Dovegate, Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST14 8XR
Salary: Between £45,000 - £63,000 per annum, dependant on experience plus excellent benefits
Schedule: 40 hours per week, permanent
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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. You’ll be responsible for 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.
What you’ll do as a Therapeutic Community Clinical Lead
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 Work collaboratively 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 KPI’s at Community Level.
Does this sound like you?
You’ll be a great fit for this role if you have:
A recognised professional qualification and registration in psychotherapy, clinical, Counselling or forensic psychology or group analysis Significant post-qualification experience within forensic or secure mental health settings Proven experience leading or supervising clinicians within a therapeutic environment Awareness of Therapeutic Community models and ability to work using a psychodynamic or integrative psychotherapy approach The confidence to make complex clinical decisions and influence across professional boundaries
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We’re one of the top 1% of international employers, so you can have confidence you’ll be part of a highly supportive culture with leaders you can count on to help you achieve your goals. From mentoring and training to our focus on internal progression, we’re proud to offer clear development opportunities – and the support and tools to help you seize them.
What We Offer
Holidays: 23 days plus bank holidays Pension: Up to 6% contributory pension scheme Training and development: Over 1,100 internal courses available, funding for qualifications and apprenticeships, mentoring opportunities, and a focus on internal progression Health and wellbeing: Employee Assistance Programme, Bupa Anytime HealthLine, wellbeing app, 30% off at Serco-managed leisure centres, and 24/7 access to a virtual GP service Discounts: Discounts across around 1,000 retailers, from food and clothing to days out, entertainment and travel Charity: Paid volunteering day, tax-free charitable giving through Payroll Giving Scheme, donate your pennies from your monthly pay to the Serco People Fund Charity Employee networks: Our networks support inclusion and connection by providing spaces for collaboration, learning, and belonging. They represent and empower all our colleagues including LGBTQIA+ employees, women, parents and carers, people with disabilities, veterans, and people from all cultural backgrounds.
Let’s impact a better future, together. Apply today.
About Serco
At Serco, not only is the nature of the work we do important, everyone has an important role to play, from caring for vulnerable people to managing complex public services. We are a team of 50,000 people responsible for delivering essential public services around the world in areas including defence, transport, justice, immigration, healthcare and citizen services. We are innovators, committed to redesigning and improving public services for the benefit of everyone.


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At Serco, we see people first and foremost for their performance and potential. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that supports the needs of all. As such we will make reasonable adjustments at interview through to employment for our candidates and strongly encourage applications from a diverse candidate pool. We are open to discussions around flexibility and flexible working. We operate a hybrid work structure in many of our business areas. We are proudly Disability Confident Leader employers and holder of the Gold Inclusive Employer Standard. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job will be given the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at an interview. For help with your application please contact 0345 010 4000.
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