Therapeutic Community Clinical Lead

Location: HMP Dovegate, Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST14 8XR
Salary: Up to £63,000 per annum plus excellent benefits
Schedule: 40 hours per week, permanent

Ready to impact a better future?

If you are looking for an exciting leadership position and have a background in psychotherapy; clinical, counselling or forensic psychology; or group analysis - this could be the role for you.

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

Discover all you need to keep growing

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.

A little bit about us:
At Serco, everyone plays a vital part in delivering essential public services that make a real difference. As a global team of 50,000 people across Defence, Transport, Justice, Immigration, Healthcare, Leisure and Citizen Services, we're united by a shared purpose: to improve the services that communities rely on. Guided by our values of Trust, Care, Innovation and Pride, our people make meaningful impact, every single day.

Our inclusive recruitment commitment:
We prioritise your skills and potential. As a Disability Confident Leader, the Top Great British Employer of Veterans 2026, and a Gold Inclusive Employer Standard holder, we champion equal opportunities for all. We offer flexible and hybrid working where possible and make reasonable adjustments throughout recruitment and employment.

• Guaranteed Interview Scheme: Applicants with disabilities, veterans and people with convictions, who meet the minimum job criteria, are guaranteed an interview. Simply opt into the relevant scheme on the application form.

For support with your application, please contact recruitmentuk@serco.com.

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