Location: HMP Ashfield, Bristol Salary: £45,000.00PA HMP Ashfield is a category B male prison with an operational capacity of 412 prisoners. This role offers plenty of variety and contributes enormously to the important work of stabilising and reintegrating those prisoners safely and successfully back into society. As a member of the Therapeutic Community's Clinical Team, you will conduct group treatment for residents. Reporting and tracking the residents' progress in therapy will be an important part of your job, as will ensuring that their risk of reoffending is minimised. 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 need a good awareness and understanding of residents with complex mental health problems, including Personality disorder. Responsibilities: To set up and facilitate psychotherapy group sessions, with clinical autonomy drawing on a range of models from a group psychotherapy perspective. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering complex factors concerning historical, criminal, relational, and developmental processes that have shaped the resident and their difficulties. To facilitate large community meetings, supporting co-facilitators and other staff engaged in these processes. Contribute to effective risk assessment and management of complex, vulnerable, or high-risk prisoners, reporting on treatment and therapeutic progress related to criminogenic factors. To contribute clinically to group processes and provide feedback to operational and therapeutic staff regarding the residents in your group(s). To communicate complex clinical information sensitively, including assessment, formulation, and treatment plans of residents to monitor progress during multi-disciplinary treatment. To attend appropriate meetings to provide clinical specialist input to the multi-disciplinary team on maintaining a treatment environment informed by psychodynamic principles. To contribute to the effective implementation of the Democratic Therapeutic Communities accredited core model in the prison setting. Ensure the clinical effectiveness of your practice by participating in audit and development activities as required. Remain informed of and critically evaluate current research to support evidence-based practice in your professional work and contribute this perspective in the multi-disciplinary team. Provide a specialist contribution to the preparation for clinical external audit of the therapeutic community, including case studies, detailed self-reviews, and liaison with external agencies. Act as a peer-reviewer consultant to other Therapeutic Communities outside of the prison service. Maintain professional networks with other clinicians and TCs sharing best practices. To attend supervision based on psychotherapy knowledge and skills. To maintain psychotherapy registration as a clinician and supervisor. What you’ll need: Qualifications: You will be a qualified/accredited psychotherapist with the UKCP or BACP. Experience: Experience working in a forensic setting, particularly with those convicted of sexual offences. Experience of assessment, implementation, and delivery of group work. An understanding of TC issues. Additional Requirements: Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Able to work collaboratively with prisoners. Skilled in working within a multi-disciplinary team. At Serco, not only is the nature of the work we do important, but 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. By joining Serco you will have unlimited access to our Global Employee Networks – SercoInspire (Gender), SercoEmbrace (Multicultural), SercoUnlimited (Disability) and InSerco (LGBT & Networks). Please click on the apply button to complete your application. Occasionally we receive a large volume of applications and may bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive organization that supports the needs of all. We are proudly Disability Confident Leader employers and holder of the Gold Inclusive Employer Standard.