Specialist Treatment Manager- Psychology Services Group- HMP Usk

www.findapprenticeship.service.gov.uk - Jobboard; Usk; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A specialist rehabilitation service in Usk is seeking a Specialist Treatment Manager to oversee accredited programs aimed at reducing reoffending. The role involves managing the quality of delivery, training facilitators, and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to ensure effective interventions. Candidates should have a relevant psychological background and experience in treatment management.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing treatment programs and facilitating group work.
• Strong understanding of offending behavior and rehabilitation.
• Ability to work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Co-ordinate and supervise delivery of accredited programs.
• Provide training and supervision for facilitators.
• Oversee assessments and ensure compliance with selection guidelines.

Skills

Team leadership

Clinical decision making

Training and consultancy

Education

Relevant psychological degree

Job description

Job description
Psychology Services Group are expanding to develop a specialist treatment management service to support the delivery of the accredited programme Building Choices, alongside other rehabilitative activity in prisons. This is an exciting development for you to join a growing team delivering a service to help reduce reoffending and protect the public, embedded in a clinical service. You will be managed through the psychology line and supported in your professional development.

The Specialist Treatment Manager will have responsibility for the quality oversight, facilitation and delivery of Accredited Programmes and related interventions in custody which address offending behaviour. This will include moderate and high intensity, offered in group or individual formats, as well as provision for those presenting with learning difficulties and challenges. It may also include oversight of wider related offending behaviour interventions

The job holder will be required to carry out the following responsibilities, activities and duties:

To co-ordinate, monitor and review the planning and preparation for delivering programmes including management of referrals and waiting lists for offending behaviour programmes, communicating with applicants and those involved in their sentence management.
Responsible for ensuring facilitators are properly selected and trained then providing professional supervision including session monitoring to support the development of skills and maintain the integrity of service delivery. This includes the continuous assessment and support of Groupworkers and other facilitator staff in the development of the skills required to deliver programmes to monitor and identify individual performance and development needs through Treatment Management processes, working with the Programme Manager regarding performance.
To provide advice, information, training and consultancy as required to staff, prisoners and external organisations to ensure that eligibility and suitability criteria are understood and to support multi-disciplinary approach to reducing reoffending.
Assist in facilitating accredited programmes or one to one work as required.
Responsible for overseeing, allocating and reviewing assessments for the relevant programme, to support effective clinical decision making and maintaining an ongoing review of participants’ risks, needs and responsivity, ensuring their needs are met throughout their completion of offending behaviour programmes.
Responsible for the selection and composition of groups, considering risks and responsivity needs and ensuring national guidelines on the assessment and selection of offenders are followed to ensure that only those offenders who require the programme are selected.
Work collaboratively with the Forensic Psychology Service, the Programmes Manager, local SLT, other multi-disciplinary teams and national OBP team.
Chair Post Programme reviews in partnership with the Programme Manager
Respond to any local queries or complaints about the delivery of the programme and maintain records in line with management manual(s) guidance and local protocols
Contribute to the function and activities of the Accredited Intervention Management (AIMs) team and attend regular meetings (minimum of 10 per year).
Contribute to local programme Awareness Training.
Take responsibility for their own Continued Professional Development (CPD).