Performance and Compliance First Line Manager - Offender Management Unit (OMU) BRIDGEND £35,175.00

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Performance and Compliance First Line Manager - Offender Management Unit (OMU)

HMP & YOI Parc, Bridgend

G4S Care and Rehabilitation Services

Salary - £35,175.00 per annum.

Full Time, Permanent role, 40 Hours

Excellent Company benefits including Pension Scheme

About us

Within Care and Rehabilitation Services, 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 and causes of prison stress are minimised. Central to our philosophy is the relationship between staff and prisoners. Our training and operational practices emphasise the need to treat prisoners with dignity and respect and G4S staff build positive and supportive relationships with the prisoners in their care.

HMP & YOI Parc accommodates 1038 convicted male adult prisoners and remand/ convicted young offenders and young people in a secure but modern environment.

About the role

HMP & YOI Parc is a fast paced complex and challenging environment.

You will develop, implement and manage compliance, performance and quality assurance systems across Offender Management in order to provide confidence that delivery meets contractual requirements, national standards and HMIP expectations.

This role will be key in helping us to improve delivery as an Offender Management Unit and ensuring that we are delivering a good service to the population that meets national expectations and ensures accountability across the department.

The demands and expectations across Offender Management are varied and often time bound, with a high volume of work across the whole department. Within this context it is imperative that we have strong compliance and QA systems to ensure we are delivering effective performance and quality outcomes for prisoners.

Some of the key responsibilities for this role are:

• Direct line management of the compliance and performance team, OCA and VIsor
• Development, implementation and maintenance of performance, compliance and QA systems across the Offender Management department.
• Providing regular reports to Senior Management regarding performance and QA to enable effective management.
• Ensuring compliance with Offender Management, Public Protection, Mappa and parole policies and timescales, and delivery against national standards.
• Analyse data to identify trends and patterns relating to OMU delivery, resourcing pressures and workload demands.
• Gatekeeping of OASys, categorisation and other risk assessments in line with policy.
• Regular self assessment against Domain 4 HMIP expectations (Resettlement and release planning) and reporting back to OMU Senior Management team.
• Oversight of Psychology Service Level Agreement and performance against this, alongside wider oversight of delivery against parole requirements.
• Supporting the department to understand and implement key policy changes.
• Develop and maintain relationships with relevant probation and resettlement team contacts.
• Assist in the promotion of creating a positive Health & Safety culture across the site leading by example, this includes reporting accidents and near misses in a timely manner & follow the applicable safe systems of work for the role.

The Ideal Candidate:

About you

You will need to be an organised and methodical problem solver, with good IT skills and a good grasp of the requirements across Offender Management.

You will need to have an eye for identifying issues and be able to interpret and analyse data.

This is a great opportunity to contribute to the OMU department improving the service that it offers, developing highly transferable skills in the process and line management experience.

If you join us, you can be sure that you’ll find a secure, friendly and professional working environment and be given all the support, training and encouragement you need to build and develop a successful career with us.

HMP Parc encourages applications from Welsh speakers.

For more information on HMP Parc, please visit https://hmpparc.co.uk/

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 His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service and are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act.

You must be eligible to work in the UK. 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.