Role Profile

Job Description (JD)
Band 7
Group Profile - Head of Function Standard (HOFS)
Job Description - HOFS : Reducing Reoffending

Document Ref.
OR JES 305 JD-B7 HOFS: Reducing Reoffending v10.0
Document Type
Management
Version
10.0
Classification
Official
Date of Issue
5th December 2022
Status
Baselined
Produced by
Job Evaluation Assurance and Support Team
Authorised by
Reward Team
JD Evidence

OR JES 305 JD-B7 HOFS: Reducing Reoffending v10.0

Job Description
Job Title
HOFS:  Reducing Reoffending
Group Profile
Head of Function Standard
Organisation
Functional Management
Level
Band
7

Overview of the
This is a functional management job within an establishment.
job

The job holder will be the Head of the Reducing Reoffending
Function within the establishment and will have line management
responsibility.

This is either an operational or non-operational job with line
management responsibilities. If operational, please see technical
requirements.  This role is rotational.
Summary
The job holder will be responsible for the leadership,
development and provision of the prison’s Reduction of
Reoffending portfolio. This will require the job holder to manage
the agenda of the prison’s approach to:
•  Reducing Reoffending and Resettlement
•  Regime design and delivery
•  The following reducing reoffending pathways:
o  housing and accommodation
o  health, substance misuse and social care providers
o  finance benefit and debt
o  attitudes, thinking and behaviour
o  faith
o  children and families

They will be the strategic lead to facilitate and enable strong
working practices between prison, probation, and other relevant
community services to reduce reoffending.

They will be responsible for the design and driving the delivery of
the prison’s regime so it meets the rehabilitative needs of all
prisoners.
As a member of the Senior Management Team (SMT), the job
holder will contribute and implement their Function’s objectives
as defined in the establishment’s Business Plan.
Responsibilities,
The job holder will be required to carry out the following
Activities and
responsibilities, activities and duties:
Duties

•  Responsible for the design of the reducing reoffending
strategic approach for the prison.
•  Responsible for driving the successful implementation of the
prison’s reducing reoffending approach through all key heads
of functions and managers across prison and probation
teams. This includes the strategic leadership of a range of
external stakeholders, to ensure effective delivery of services
that support the reducing reoffending strategy.
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•  Responsible for the design and delivery of key reducing
reoffending pathways which will include, but not be limited to,
housing and accommodation, health and substance misuse,
families, offending behaviour programmes and interventions
relating to faith, finance and debt.
•  Responsible for the development of local needs assessment
for the prison, bringing together data/assessments from all
other key partners in the prison to inform the design of the
prison’s tiered regime.
•  Considering all the prison’s operational functions, responsible
for designing and delivering a tiered regime, which is
designed to meet prisoner need, ensures prisoners are
allocated and enabled to attend activities and interventions,
operating in line with the National Regime Model and the five
pillars of the Ofsted Education Inspection Framework.
•  Responsible for driving delivery of the regime through other
heads of function, and managers to ensure its effective, and
sustainable, running is prioritised, and positive changes are
identified and taken forward, where necessary.
•  Responsible for developing a framework and monitoring
progress to measure delivery of interventions across the
regime and to lead on ensuring that the appropriate
corrective action is taken where necessary.
•  Responsible for locally operationalising and ongoing
oversight of the Resettlement Passport. This includes
strategically coordinating relevant agencies, ensuring the
Passport brings together key information through the
prisoner’s journey and to ensure their successful resettlement
into society, and maximises opportunities within the different
resettlement pathways, giving prison leavers better access to
services.
•  Strategic lead to ensure join up between prison and
probation, including with resettlement teams/pre-release
team, promoting and delivering on the OneHMPPS concept
within the prison and through the gate. Proactively seeking
out opportunities to leverage third sector, and other external
agencies’, expertise, services and provision to bring this into
the prison estate to support with the rehabilitation of
prisoners.
•  Responsible for developing a joined-up approach between
the Reducing Reoffending function and Offender
Management (OMUs), promoting reducing reoffending, and
ensuring staff are upskilled and understand the prison’s
rehabilitative offer, and that these are included within the
formulation of sentence plans.
Dependant on operational experience will undertake some
or all other management tasks including:
• Act as the Governor's representative by chairing adjudications
and taking charge of day-to-day establishment operations as
Duty Governor.
• Promote Prison Service policy in all activities and behaviours,
e.g., promote decency, safety, diversity and inclusion and
reducing re-offending agendas.

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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.

Behaviours
•  Delivering at Pace
•  Leadership
•  Communicating and Influencing
•  Working Together
•  Managing a Quality Service
•  Changing and Improving
•  Making Effective Decisions
Strengths
It is advised strengths are chosen locally, recommended 4-8.
Essential
•  Experience in the development and delivery of medium-to-
Experience
long term strategies and/or business plans.
•  Experience of working collaboratively with a range of
stakeholders including senior leaders and external
organisations.
•  Experience of implementing change in a challenging
environment.
•  Experience of leading teams and delivering through others to
meet objectives in a challenging environment.
Technical
If Operational
Requirements
•  Must be successfully accredited by passing the Head of
Function Assessment Centre (HFAC), or prior to 2016 be
accredited as an Operational Manager (or in post as a G5
prior to 1999).
•  Where HFAC accreditation was gained from 2018, the
Incident Management Silver Command (IMSC) assessment
must also be passed to be eligible for operational Head of
Function roles.
•  Job holders must complete specific training in their specialism
once they take up post.
•  Successful completion of the workbook.
•  When transferring to a Young Persons establishment the job
holder will be required to successfully undertake an
assessment to demonstrate suitability to work with Young
People.
Ability
•  Ability to set and deliver a strategic plan to reduce reoffending
across a range of activities within prison
•  An ability to build and foster strong links with probation and
community services, and statutory partners, to ensure a
successful transition from prison.

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Minimum
•  All candidates are subject to security and identity checks prior to
Eligibility
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 week
(Unsocial Hours)
Allowances
Required Hours Allowance - TBC by Recruiting Manager.

This role requires working regular unsocial hours and a payment
at the current approved organisation rate will be made in addition
to your basic pay to recognise this. Unsocial hours are those
hours outside 0700 - 1900hrs Monday to Friday and include
working evenings, nights, weekends and Bank/Public Holidays.

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Success Profile

Strengths
Technical
It is advised
Behaviours
Ability
Experience
strengths are

chosen locally,
recommended 4-8.
Delivering at Pace

Ability to set, and
Experience in the
If Operational
deliver, a strategic plan
development and
Must be successfully
to reduce reoffending
delivery of the
accredited by passing the Head
across a range of
medium-to-long term
of Function Assessment Centre
activities within prison.
strategic and business
(HFAC), or prior to 2016 be
plans.
accredited as an Operational
Manager (or in post as a G5
prior to 1999).
Leadership

Ability to build and foster  Experience of working
Where HFAC accreditation was
strong links with
collaboratively with a
gained from 2018, the Incident
probation and
range of stakeholders
Management Silver Command
community services,
including senior
(IMSC) assessment must also
and statutory partners,
leaders and external
be passed to be eligible for
to ensure a successful
organisations.
operational Head of Function
transition from prison.
roles.
Communicating and

Experience of
Job holders must complete
Influencing
implementing change
specific training in their
in a challenging
specialism once they take up
environment.
post.
Working Together

Experience of leading
When transferring to a Young
teams and delivering
Persons establishment the job
through others to meet  holder will be required to
objectives in a
successfully undertake an
challenging
assessment to demonstrate
environment.
suitability to work with Young
People.
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Managing a Quality

Successful completion of the
Service
workbook
Changing and

Improving
Making effective

Decisions

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