Specialist Treatment Manager in Liverpool

Specialist Treatment Manager – Prison

Management role based in a prison, responsible for the oversight, facilitation and delivery of accredited offending behaviour programmes and related interventions, including moderate and high intensity services for offenders with learning difficulties and challenges.

Responsibilities

• Co‑ordinate, monitor and review planning and preparation for delivering programmes, including management of referrals, waiting lists and communication with applicants and sentence management parties.
• Ensure facilitators are properly selected and trained; provide professional supervision and session monitoring to support skill development and maintain service integrity.
• Conduct continuous assessment and support of Groupworkers and other facilitator staff, identify performance and development needs through Treatment Management processes, and collaborate with the Programme Manager on performance matters.
• Provide advice, information, training and consultancy to staff, prisoners and external organisations to ensure eligibility and suitability criteria are understood and to support a multi‑disciplinary approach to reducing re‑offending.
• Facilitate accredited programmes or one‑to‑one work as required.
• Oversee, allocate and review assessments for the programme, support effective clinical decision‑making and maintain ongoing review of participants’ risks, needs and responsivity, ensuring their needs are met throughout completion.
• Select and compose groups, considering risks and responsivity needs and ensuring national guidelines on the assessment and selection of offenders are followed.
• Collaborate with the Forensic Psychology Service, Programme Manager, local SLT, other multidisciplinary teams and the national OBP team.
• Chair Post Programme reviews in partnership with the Programme Manager.
• Respond to local queries or complaints about programme delivery; maintain records in line with management manual guidance and local protocols.
• Contribute to the Accredited Intervention Management (AIMs) team and attend regular meetings (minimum 10 per year).
• Contribute to local programme awareness training.
• Manage own continued professional development (CPD).

Qualifications & Experience

• Experience as a Group Worker trained in the delivery of an Interventions Services Accredited Programme within the criminal justice or social care sector.
• Knowledge and understanding of group dynamics and ability to motivate groups and individuals to participate fully in programmes.
• Experience of prosocial modelling, motivational interviewing and challenging inappropriate language and behaviour.
• Experience of supporting others to evidence the ability to support staff in professional practice.
• Evidence of maintaining and upholding accredited programme standards.
• Proficiency in effective written and ICT skills.
• Effective verbal communication skills with a range of audiences.
• Ability to undertake Intervention Services generic Treatment Management Training (as required).
• Key Skills
• Clinical oversight and quality assurance of offending behaviour programmes.
• Leadership and supervision of programme facilitators.
• Clinical assessment and ongoing risk, need and responsivity review.
• Effective teamwork with multidisciplinary professionals.
• Legal & Administrative
• All candidates are subject to security and identity checks before commencement.
• All external candidates are subject to 6‑month probation; internal candidates are subject to probation if they have not already served a probationary period within HMPPS.
• Applicants must declare membership of any group or organisation that the HMPPS considers to be racist.
• Competency in English is required; Welsh may be required where specified in Wales.
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