Clinical Lead
About this role
Therapeutic Community Clinical Lead
Location: HMP Dovegate, Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, United Kingdom (ST14 8XR)
Job ID: 308642
Employment Type: Full-Time, Regular
Schedule: Permanent, 40 hours per week
Salary: Up to £63,000 per annum + excellent benefits
About Supportive Bridge Staffing Agency
At Supportive Bridge, we connect visionary clinical and mental health leaders with high-impact public-sector environments. Partnering with leading justice service providers, we specialize in placing professionals into stable, fulfilling roles where clinical excellence drives rehabilitation, lowers reoffending, and fosters safer communities.
Role Overview
As a Therapeutic Community Clinical Lead within our Justice and Immigration psychological services team at HMP Dovegate, you will lead and shape a high-performing Therapeutic Community. You will ensure the consistent delivery of accredited, high-quality psychological interventions that support lasting behavioral change and resident rehabilitation.
This is a senior clinical leadership role with real reach and purpose, empowering you to embed Therapeutic Community principles and cultivate a safe, effective, and values-led environment for both staff and residents.
Key Responsibilities:
Team Leadership: Lead, line manage, and support a multi-disciplinary clinical team to ensure safe, ethical, and effective therapeutic delivery.
Governance & Accreditation: Maintain rigorous accreditation, quality assurance, and governance standards across the Therapeutic Community.
Clinical Supervision: Provide expert clinical leadership, professional supervision, and continuous development to clinical colleagues.
Therapeutic Delivery: Oversee the delivery of psychodynamic or integrative psychotherapeutic interventions aligned with accredited core models.
Collaborative Operations: Partner closely with operational colleagues to ensure seamless, integrated custodial and clinical operations while monitoring contractual KPIs.
What We Are Looking For
We are looking for an experienced, compassionate clinical professional ready to make a tangible difference in a secure therapeutic environment.
Requirements:
Professional Qualifications: A recognised professional qualification and registration in psychotherapy; clinical, counselling, or forensic psychology; or group analysis.
Experience: Significant post-qualification experience within forensic or secure mental health settings.
Leadership Background: Proven track record leading or supervising clinicians within a therapeutic setting.
Model Expertise: Strong awareness of Therapeutic Community models, paired with the ability to work using psychodynamic or integrative psychotherapy approaches.
Core Competencies: Confidence making complex clinical decisions and influencing across professional boundaries.
What We Offer You
Financial & Pension: Competitive salary of up to £63,000 per annum alongside up to a 6% matched contributory pension scheme.
Leave & Benefits: 23 days holiday plus bank holidays.
Training & Progression: Access to over 1,100 internal training courses, funding for qualifications and apprenticeships, mentorship, and clear internal progression paths.
Health & Wellbeing: Employee Assistance Programme, Bupa Anytime HealthLine, a dedicated wellbeing app, 24/7 access to a virtual GP service, and 30% off at Serco-managed leisure centres.
Perks & Community: Discounts across roughly 1,000 retailers, a paid volunteering day, payroll-giving charitable schemes, and active employee inclusion networks (LGBTQIA+, disability, veterans, and multicultural networks).
Our Recruitment Process & Equal Opportunities
Guaranteed Interview Scheme: Applicants with disabilities, veterans, and people with convictions who meet the minimum job criteria are guaranteed an interview. Simply opt into the relevant scheme on your application form.
Ban the Box: We support fair access to employment for those with unspent criminal convictions (subject to security clearance requirements). Reasonable adjustments are fully supported from interview through employment.