Therapeutic Community Clinical Lead

Company: Serco Limited
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Location: Marchington
Job Description:

Location: HMP Dovegate, Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST14 8XRSalary: Competitive plus excellent benefitsSchedule: 40 hours per week, permanent

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. 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

What we offer

  • Holidays: Up to 25 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.

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Posted: August 1st, 2026