Location: HMP Ashfield, Pucklechurch, Bristol BS16 9QJ
Salary: Between £45,000 - £63,000 per annum, dependant on experience plus excellent benefits. Schedule: 40 hours per week, permanent
As a Therapeutic Community Clinical Lead within our Justice and Immigration psychological services team, you'll lead and shape a newly developed 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
* Lead and line manage a multi‑disciplinary clinical team, ensuring safe, ethical and effective therapeutic delivery
* Achieve and 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?
* A recognised professional qualification and registration in psychotherapy 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
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.
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