Head of Offender Management Services Wellingborough £44020.80

Role Responsibility:

HEAD OF OFFENDER MANAGEMENT SERVICES

HMP FIVE WELLS, WELLINGBOROUGH

Salary £44,020.80 per annum

Permanent, Full Time (40 hours per week)

HMP Five Wells in Wellingborough is setting the standard for new build prisons of the future, using forward-thinking design and technology.  The Prison is the UK’s first purpose-built resettlement Prison, a one of a kind new generation category C Prison for the future that is becoming an integral part of the local community.

G4S Care & Rehabilitation Services (CaRS) successfully manages 4 prisons, one secure training centre and a number of community contracts in England and Wales. The philosophy of our prisons is to rehabilitate offenders and equip them to re-integrate into mainstream society on release. We seek to normalise prison conditions as far as possible to reflect life in the outside community. Our aim is to create an environment in which staff and prisoners feel safe.

We are now looking for a Head of Offender Management, to join our Team at HMP Five Wells. 

To succeed in this role, you will have strong leadership skills, be dynamic and engaging, and share our ethics and values. You must deliver an exceptional service to develop & maintain effective offender management procedures linking all aspects of the custodial process and ensuring effective communication to all relevant parties.

Some of the key responsibilities;

• Manage the day-to-day delivery of offender management and OASys policy, practice and procedures and associated communication strategies to ensure compliance with the relevant standards, including security instructions.
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships and communication with internal and external departments and agencies involved in all aspects of offender management delivery to ensure the process is adhered to.
• Coach and support employees to maximise their performance and ensure values, ethical standards, equality and diversity, policies and procedures and contractual requirements are met.
• Undertake the supervision role within the OASys and offender management processes to ensure compliance with the relevant standards.
• Co-ordinate the application of the offender management process for all sentenced offenders to ensure compliance with the relevant standards.
• Advise on all movements of offenders in and out of the prison to ensure contractual numbers are maintained and prisoner profile is in line with the needs of the prison.
• Manage the day-to-day delivery of offender management and OASys policy, practice and procedures and associated communication strategies to ensure compliance with the relevant standards.
• Manage the Lifer process for all applicable offenders to ensure that they progress through the lifer system effectively with appropriate risk assessments and interventions undertaken accordingly. (HMP Altcourse only.)
• Manage the risk management procedures in compliance with public and child protection and harassment standards and update and maintain local policies accordingly.
• Undertake the operational management role when required, ensuring the effective daily operation of the prison, including efficient staff deployment and monitoring effective ACCT and Violence Reduction systems to minimise suicides, self-harm and bullying within the prison

The Ideal Candidate:

Essential Skills

• Management experience within custodial environment.
• Strong leadership skills.
• Strong communication skills both verbal and written.
• Resilience Skills

Equality and Diversity is an important part of G4S Care and Rehabilitation Services. We actively encourage applications from all backgrounds and are a fully inclusive employer who aims to support all employees to be their true selves. We are happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments for either the role or during the recruitment process

G4S Care and Rehabilitation Services is committed to safeguarding and promoting the wellbeing of children and adults at risk and each employee is expected to support these goals.

Please note that these vacancies are subject to a 5 year checkable history and the strict vetting standards set by G4S, and HMPPS and are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act.

You must be eligible to work in the UK and must have been resident in the UK for a minimum period of 3 years. You will also need to provide full details of your employment and education history for the last 5 years as part of the security screening process for this role.