Clinical Lead

Serco; Uttoxeter; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Up to 25 days annual leave

Contributory pension scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Discounts at various retailers

Paid volunteering day

Job summary

Serco is seeking a Therapeutic Community Clinical Lead in Uttoxeter to lead a high-performing clinical team within justice psychological services. This senior role involves ensuring the delivery of accredited psychological interventions and creating a values-led environment for rehabilitation. The ideal candidate will have a professional qualification in psychotherapy and substantial experience in forensic settings. Benefits include competitive salary, up to 25 days of holiday, and access to extensive training and development opportunities.

Qualifications

• Recognised professional qualification and registration in psychotherapy or related field.
• Significant post-qualification experience in secure mental health settings.
• Proven experience leading or supervising clinicians.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a multi-disciplinary clinical team for effective therapeutic delivery.
• Ensure compliance with accreditation and quality assurance standards.
• Provide clinical leadership and supervision to colleagues.

Skills

Therapeutic Community principles

Psychodynamic or integrative psychotherapy

Leadership in a therapeutic environment

Clinical decision-making

Multi-disciplinary team management

Education

Professional qualification in psychotherapy, clinical, or forensic psychology

Job description

Location: HMP Dovegate, Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST14 8XR

Salary: Competitive 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 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?

• 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

We support fair access to employment for those with unspent criminal convictions through the Ban the Box pledge. We encourage applications from a diverse candidate pool. We are open to discussions around flexibility and flexible working. We operate a hybrid work structure in many of our business areas. We are proudly Disability Confident Leader employers and holders of the Gold Inclusive Employer Standard.