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**Psychotherapist**

**HMP Dovegate (Therapeutic Community)**

**Full time or Part time**

**Permanent**

**£46,500 per annum (full time) + Corporate Company Benefits**

HMP Dovegate is a category B male establishment prison based on the Staffordshire/Derbyshire border near Uttoxeter.

The operational capacity of the Therapeutic Community is 200. Joining our onsite team at this category B prison, you’ll play a key role in making a difference to the lives of our residents.

We have an opening for an experienced Psychotherapist to join our friendly team within the Therapeutic Community.

This role is full time permanent or part time 3 days per week (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday)

As a member of the Therapeutic Community's Clinical Team, you will facilitate group therapy to residents. Reporting and tracking the Resident's progress in therapy will be an important part of your job, as will ensuring that their risk of reoffending is minimised. As a member of the Community Clinical Team, you will participate in/chair Therapy Review Boards and make choices regarding appropriate future steps for Residents at the end of their Therapy Journey. You will deliver therapy within the context of a Therapeutic Community and work with the Clinical Team to embed and sustain the Community's Audit Standards. You'll be active in every part of the Community Program and will help to promote clinical thinking in areas like Group Process, Supervision, and Sensitivity. You will be able to contain and think about the work and experiences of the Residents on the TC and you will have a good awareness and understanding of residents who have complex mental health problems, including Personality Disorder.

**What you need to do the job**:
**Why Serco**
- Meaningful and vital work_ - Using specialist behavioural analysis you’ll contribute to the reintegration of ex-offenders back into society, helping them to address the factors that influence offending behaviour.
- A world of opportunity_ - With six prisons across the UK and a breadth of roles, you’ll be wholeheartedly supported with development and career progression. We actively fund psychologists towards chartered and/or registered status and with ongoing CPD activities and look to promote from within.
- Great people_ - You’ll become an integral member of a well-defined and supportive team, who believe passionately in the value of our work. We promote an empathic and therapeutic approach, respecting individual differences and promoting self-efficacy.

**What we offer**
- A competitive salary
- Up to 6% contributory pension scheme
- 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays
- Employee Assistance Programme
- A safe and supportive culture
- A company passionate about diversity and inclusion
- Serco Benefits package
- Serco discounts which include cinema, merlin entertainment and online shopping discounts, cycle to work scheme and discounts on mobile phone plans and leisure centre memberships

**About Serco**

At Serco, not only is the nature of the work we do important, everyone has an important role to play, from caring for vulnerable people to managing complex public services. We are a team of 50,000 people responsible for delivering essential public services around the world in areas including defence, transport, justice, immigration, healthcare and citizen services. We are innovators, committed to redesigning and improving public services for the benefit of everyone.

**Apply**

At Serco we support fair access to employment for those with unspent criminal convictions through the ‘Ban the Box’ pledge (some may be exempt due to the nature of the role and the security clearance required). Please contact our recruitment team directly on 0345 010 4000 to discuss.