Location: HMP Ashfield, Pucklechurch, Bristol BS16 9QJ
Salary: £45,000 – £63,000 per annum, dependant on experience, plus excellent benefits
Schedule: 40 hours per week, permanent
Therapeutic Community Clinical Lead
As a senior clinical leadership role 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. Your responsibilities include embedding and sustaining Therapeutic Community principles, creating a safe, values‑led environment where colleagues and residents can grow, and supporting 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
* 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 KPIs 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
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
We encourage applications from a diverse candidate pool and will make reasonable adjustments at interview through to employment. We are proudly Disability Confident Leader employers and holders of the Gold Inclusive Employer Standard. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria will be given the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at an interview.
At Serco, we support fair access to employment for those with unspent criminal convictions through the ‘Ban the Box’ pledge (some may be exempt due to the nature of the role and the security clearance required). For help with your application please contact 0345 010 4000.
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