20575 - CW: Offender Management: Prison Offender Manager

Ministry of Justice•Rochester, NY

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

The job holder will lead the management and assessment of selected low to medium risk prisoners and prepare, implement, review and evaluate their sentence plans with them. The job holder will build effective, appropriate and supportive relationships with prisoners, with the aim of reducing re offending. The job holder will act in a supportive role only to probation officers in the case management of high risk prisoners. The job holder will have undergone selection and additional training to carry out this specialist delivery job as a Prison Offender Manager to prisoners. This is a non-operational job with no line management responsibilities. This role is rotational. Will have regular prisoner facing activities/duties.

Requirements

Ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence through the medium of English or (where specified in Wales) Welsh.
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 the HMPPS considers to be racist.
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)
Nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
Individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Nice To Haves

Rotational role
Regular prisoner facing activities/duties
Non-operational job with no line management responsibilities
Loan basis for up to 2 years for current NPS employees
Loan/Secondment subject to approval of the selected candidate's Business Unit
Part-time, flexible and job-sharing working patterns will be considered
Guaranteed interview scheme for veterans
Interview opportunities for those at risk of redundancy under the Redeployment Interview Scheme (not eligible if applying on promotion)

Responsibilities

Supervise, Manage, Signpost and advise prisoners decently, safely and securely while carrying out all activities.
Understand, apply and conform to national and local policies.
Establish, develop and maintain professional relationships with prisoners and staff.
Maintain and update systems in line with local agreements.
Prepare relevant documentation to managers for verification/quality checking purposes.
Attend and contribute to relevant meetings as required.
Assess and manage the risk posed by offenders to protect victims of crime and the general public.
Provide information and advice to other criminal justice agencies and partner organisations.
Supervise offenders during custodial sentences.
Contribute to the management of risk.
Work with other agencies and groups to prevent reoffending and meet the needs of victims and offenders.
Undertake the full range of offender management tasks with low to medium risk cases.
Support probation officers in the case management of high risk prisoners when required.
Be involved in all relevant processes in the prison such as ACCT and violence reduction/anti-bullying for those within your case load, if this is applicable.
Act as the ACCT Case Manager for individuals if appropriate.
Interview prisoners within prescribed timescales of their arrival.
Set and review targets with prisoners and update case management notes on PNOMIS or relevant IT systems.
Use the Offender Assessment System (OASys) to identify risks and manage offenders appropriately.
Obtain further information if required from outside agencies to complete a comprehensive OASys report.
Lead the sentence planning meeting in order to prepare and review appropriate plans.
Coordinate the activities within the sentence plan through liaison with prisoners and other departments and agencies, including gathering and exchanging information and understanding/investigating conflicting opinions on prisoner progress.
Encourage and support prisoner to participate in education, interventions and workshops as defined within the sentence plan.
Develop strategies to assist prisoners to overcome reluctance to attend.
Provide professional advice and assessment, including written reports to criminal justice agencies and partner organisations.
Liaise with the Community Offender Managers regarding Release on Temporary Licence (ROTL) and Home Detention Curfew (HDC).
Make recommendations to the Governor on suitability for early release.
Inform relevant agencies of release dates and address of prisoners considered a risk on release.
Support Community Offender Managers with the delivery of plans to enable recalled prisoners to be re-released.
Complete all paperwork for the cases, including lifer and ISP specific paperwork in line with relevant policies, standards and set timescales.
Highlight any prisoner who gives significant concerns by their behaviour to the Heads of Offender Management or Orderly Officer.
Contribute to and attend Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA) Boards and work with all relevant external agencies to protect the public when releasing prisoners under MAPPA.
Liaise with the Foreign National Department or UK Border Agency regarding foreign national prisoners, as appropriate.
Instigate public protection child contact checks and share relevant safeguarding information with authorities.
Undertake the role of the resettlement advisor for prisoners in the specific caseload.
Forge, develop and maintain the links between the programmes, the progress, or otherwise, made by the participants and the prisoner’s ongoing path through their sentence.
Work collaboratively with colleagues and maintain effective team relationships, in particular with Key Workers.
Demonstrate pro-social modelling skills by consistently reinforcing pro-social behaviour and attitudes and challenging anti-social behaviour and attitudes.
Use computer based systems to produce, update and maintain records and other documentation within agreed timescales.
Work within the aims and values of HMPPS.