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Job Description (JD)
Band 6
Group Profile - Specialist Treatment Manager
(STM)
Job Description - Specialist Treatment Manager
Document Ref.
OR-JES-477-JD-B6: STM: v10.0
Document Type
Management
Version
10.0
Classification
Official
Date of Issue
1 July 2025
Status
Baselined
Produced by
Job Evaluation Assurance and Support Team
Authorised by
Reward Team
JD Evidence
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Job Description
Job Title
Specialist Treatment Manager
Group Profile
Specialist Treatment Manager
Organisation
First Line Management
Level
Band
6
Overview of the
This is a management job based in a prison. The post may be
job
required to provide services at other nearby prisons.
The Specialist Treatment Manager will have responsibility for the
quality oversight, facilitation and delivery of Accredited
Programmes and related interventions in custody which address
offending behaviour. This will include moderate and high
intensity as well as provision for those presenting with learning
difficulties and challenges. It may also include oversight of wider
related offending behaviour interventions.
Summary
This is a non-operational job with the capacity to line manage
and to provide supervision to staff. This is a non-rotational role.
The Treatment Manager is responsible for providing clinical
oversight and ensuring the quality of offending behaviour
programmes and related interventions, which includes the
preparation, engagement, facilitation, assessment, reporting and
ongoing support of participants and staff involved in delivering
offending behaviour programmes.
They will provide professional supervision to Programme
Facilitators and professional advice to improve performance,
skills and development opportunities.
Responsibilities, The job holder will be required to carry out the following
Activities and
responsibilities, activities and duties:
Duties
• To co-ordinate, monitor and review the planning and
preparation for delivering programmes including management
of referrals and waiting lists for offending behaviour
programmes, communicating with applicants and those
involved in their sentence management.
• Responsible for ensuring facilitators are properly selected and
trained then providing professional supervision including
session monitoring to support the development of skills and
maintain the integrity of service delivery. This includes the
continuous assessment and support of Groupworkers and
other facilitator staff in the development of the skills required to
deliver programmes to monitor and identify individual
performance and development needs through Treatment
Management processes, working with the Programme
Manager regarding performance.
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• To provide advice, information, training and consultancy as
required to staff, prisoners and external organisations to ensure
that eligibility and suitability criteria are understood and to
support multi-disciplinary approach to reducing reoffending.
• Assist in facilitating accredited programmes or one to one work
as required.
• Responsible for overseeing, allocating and reviewing
assessments for the relevant programme, to support effective
clinical decision making and maintaining an ongoing review of
participants’ risks, needs and responsivity, ensuring their needs
are met throughout their completion of offending behaviour
programmes.
• Responsible for the selection and composition of groups,
considering risks and responsivity needs and ensuring national
guidelines on the assessment and selection of offenders are
followed to ensure that only those offenders who require the
programme are selected.
• Work collaboratively with the Forensic Psychology Service, the
Programmes Manager, local SLT, other multi-disciplinary teams
and national OBP team.
• Chair Post Programme reviews in partnership with the
Programme Manager
• Respond to any local queries or complaints about the delivery
of the programme and maintain records in line with
management manual(s) guidance and local protocols
• Contribute to the function and activities of the Accredited
Intervention Management (AIMs) team and attend regular
meetings (minimum of 10 per year).
• Contribute to local programme Awareness Training.
• Take responsibility for their own Continued Professional
Development (CPD).
The duties/responsibilities listed above describe the post as it is
at present and is not intended to be exhaustive. The job holder is
expected to accept reasonable alterations and additional tasks of
a similar level that may be necessary. Significant adjustments
may require re-examination under the Job Evaluation Scheme
and shall be discussed in the first instance with the job holder.
An ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence
through the medium of English or (where specified in Wales)
Welsh.
Civil Service Success Profile Criteria
Behaviours
• Making Effective Decisions
• Leadership
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together
• Changing and Improving
• Managing a Quality Service
Strengths
Note: We recommend you choose 4 to 8 strengths locally -
select from the list of Civil Service strength definitions on the
intranet.
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Experience
• Experienced and competent Groupworker, trained in the
delivery of an Interventions Services Accredited Programme
• Experience of working within the Criminal Justice or Social
Care sector
• A knowledge and understanding of group dynamics and an
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
Technical
• Evidenced ability to maintain and uphold accredited
Requirements
programme standards, in line with the evidence for effective
interventions.
Ability
• To have good written and ICT skills
• Effective verbal skills to interact and communicate with a range
of audiences
• Ability to undertake the Intervention Services generic Treatment
Management Training
Minimum
Please do not alter this box
Eligibility
• All candidates are subject to security and identity checks prior
to taking up post.
• All external candidates are subject to 6 months’ probation.
Internal candidates are subject to probation if they have not
already served a probationary period within HMPPS.
• All staff are required to declare whether they are a member of
a group or organisation which HMPPS consider to be racist.
Hours of Work
37 hour working week.
(Unsocial Hours)
Allowances
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