Therapy Manager

The post-holder will have responsibility for key specialist tasks involved in the delivery of accredited interventions within the prison's Democratic Therapeutic Community, including:

• Working with complex prisoners and prison staff and applying their experience and competence in the area of psychotherapy, to reduce the risk of harm and re-offending by undertaking complex treatment intervention with prisoners.
• Conducting or contributing to research, providing consultancy and training delivery for staff, and group interventions for prisoners.
• Providing clinical leadership in the provision of psychotherapy within their work area by offering group and individual supervision in the support of psychotherapists and other clinicians.
• Overseeing quality of delivery and supervision, providing direction and support for other supervisors.
• Other areas of responsibility will include the following but please see attached full job description for a full list of responsibilities.
• Lead and oversee the effective delivery of the DTC (Democratic Therapeutic Communities) accredited core model in the prison setting, ensuring that clinical and operational requirements are in place and fit for purpose.
• Manage the function of the multi-disciplinary clinical team, ensuring staff are competent and equipped to deliver therapeutic intervention, support and supervision of others in the team to develop the clinical abilities, ensuring the team uphold and promote the principles and culture of the therapeutic community.
• Provide a specialist group analytic contribution to the adult treatment service in the prison setting, working with male prisoners with significant offending behaviour and Personality Disorder, who have been referred to the Therapeutic Community.
• Utilising information from a broad base group theory and methodology and integrating it into a psychological formulation of the client in the context of their family and wider social context.
• Oversee clinical written documentation (sentence plans, recording of groups, etc) and ensure this accurately reflects progress made by individual prisoners; conduct full case reviews on difficult cases and offer authoritative advice and professional opinion relating to sentence plan.
• Provide consultancy support to colleagues with the prison senior management team in relation to psychology services and outcomes. Engage with wing managers and Offender Management Unit (OMU) ensuring that regular and thorough assessments are completed on community members' progress and therapy.
• Lead on clinical assessment and risk management of complex, vulnerable or high-risk prisoners, reporting on treatment and therapeutic progress in relation to criminogenic factors.
• Work with colleagues to develop service priorities through the design, development and evaluation of clinical audit tools and participation in appropriate clinical audit projects. Ensure the clinical effectiveness of own practice and of service function by undertaking audit, evaluation and development activities relevant to the service area.
• Responsible for relevant accreditation audit baselines as detailed in the audit document; lead on the preparation for clinical external audit of the therapeutic community, including preparation of case studies, detailed self-reviews and liaison with external agencies such as the community of communities.
Selection will be by application form and interview, which may include a presentation. Applicants will be testing against the following behaviours:
• Making Effective Decisions
• Leadership
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together
• Developing Self and Others
• Managing a Quality Service
• Delivering at Pace
  
  Significant experience of working with those who have committed serious offences or in other challenging environments - such as with individuals with personality disorders or learning difficulties.
• Experience of providing clinical supervision and have a professional background in either psychotherapy, psychology or psychiatric nursing with knowledge of psychotherapeutic models and effective models for treatment delivery.
• Relevant qualification and professional registration with an associated and relevant professional body, e.g. BACP, BPS, BABCP, UKCP.
  
  HMP Grendon is seeking a specialist Therapy Manager to join its unique Psychotherapy Community team.
The post-holder will work as part of a multidisciplinary specialist team focusing on delivery of psychodynamic and psychotherapeutic models of treatment to aid prisoners' greater understanding of their behaviour, reducing their risk or reoffending and promoting psychological well-being. The position involves leading and having clinical responsibility for the delivering of a residentially based, therapeutic community service for complex need prisoners This is a prisoner-facing post with clinical responsibilities and may have line management responsibilities.

Salary: £53,324 - £58,656,
• 25 days leave + 9 days PP
• Civil Service Pension 28.97% employer contribution
• Season Ticket Advance
• Training & development opportunities
• EAP scheme - wellbeing, counselling
• Vivup employee reward scheme eg money off vouchers
+ Cycle to work scheme