Specialist Treatment Manager - Psychology Services Group - HMP Whatton

Job Overview

Psychology Services Group are expanding to develop a specialist treatment management service to support the delivery of the accredited programme Building Choices, alongside other rehabilitative activity in prisons. This is an exciting development for you to join a team delivering a service to help reduce reoffending and protect the public, embedded in a clinical service. You will be managed through the psychology line and supported in your professional development.

• Oversee, facilitate and deliver Accredited Programmes and related interventions in custody that address offending behaviour.
• Deliver moderate and high intensity programmes offered in group or individual formats, including provision for those presenting with learning difficulties and challenges.
• Travel to other prisons across the Midlands region as required, in line with MOJ travel and subsistence policy and guidance.

• UK nationals
• Nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• Nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• Nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre‑settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)

• Demonstrated delivery of every element of an accredited Intervention Services programme at least twice to an excellent standard, with a record of the number of courses delivered.
• Training in the delivery of accredited Intervention Services programmes.
• Proficiency in written and spoken English.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles.

• Interview dates to be confirmed.
• Assessment of behaviours:
  Making Effective Decisions, Communicating and Influencing.
• Technical assessment: evidence of ability to maintain and uphold accredited programme standards.