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Job Description (JD)
Band 6
Group Profile - Activities Unit Manager (AUM)
Job Description - AUM : Neurodiversity Support
Manager
Document Ref.
OR-JES-2998-JD-B6 : AUM : Neurodiversity Support
Manager v4.0
Document Type
Management
Version
4.0
Classification
Official
Date of Issue
16 April 2025
Status
Baselined
Produced by
Job Evaluation Assurance and Support Team
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Reward Team
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Job Description
Job Title
AUM : Neurodiversity Support Manager
Group Profile
Activities Unit Manager
Organisation
First Line Management
Level
Band
6
Overview of the
This is a Management job in an establishment.
job
All staff have a responsibility to safeguard and promote the
welfare of children. The post holder must undertake the
appropriate level of training and is responsible for ensuring that
they understand and work within the safeguarding policies of the
organisation.
Summary
The post holder will be responsible for leading on supporting
prisoners with needs arising from neurodivergence.
Developing and implementing, through close collaboration with
stakeholders, a ‘whole system’ principle is of paramount
importance, with the focus firmly on supporting individuals to
achieve and progress through Education, Skills and Work
pathways throughout their sentence. The Neurodiversity
Support Manager (NSM) will liaise with the Head of Education
Skills and Work (HoESW), Learning and Skills Manager (LSM),
Industry Managers (IMs), Activity Managers (AM) and the
education provider to ensure prisoners are supported to engage
with education skills and work or not, and that they continue to
be supported in the community, including by the probation
teams.
The post holder will provide support and guidance to ensure that
all staff and stakeholders share the same vision and ethos of
neurodiversity.
The post holder will ensure that actions across education, skills
and work (ESW) within their prison support a whole prison
improvement approach which supports wider improvements
across the estate.
This is a non-rotational, non-operational job with no line
management responsibilities.
Responsibilities,
The job holder will be required to carry out the following
Activities and
responsibilities, activities and duties:
Duties
• Focus on improving and ensuring that the quality of
neurodiversity support and provision is at least good and
moving towards outstanding. This is to include
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various learning channels, e.g. classroom, industries,
work areas, workshops, gym etc.
• Develop and maintain neurodiversity needs strategy for
the prison, incorporating and working with key
stakeholders. This should include as a minimum: Head of
Education Skills and Work (HoESW) LSM, Head of
Reducing Reoffending (HoRR), Provider education and/or
curriculum managers (including regional leads),
Employment lead, New Futures Network (NFN) broker,
Prison Work Coach, Head of Offender Management Unit,
libraries, Careers Information Advice and Guidance
(CIAG), activities, gym, industries manager, key worker.
• Develop and maintain the systems and structures to
ensure that delivery of all Education, Skills and Work
activity is appropriate to all cohorts. Recommend and test
related solutions leading into an improvement plan.
Working with Senior Management Team (SMT) to
implement, maintain, invest and update it as necessary.
• Manage the collection and collating of data on
neurodiversity at local level. Continually analyse and
evaluate current practice for how neurodiversity provision
is tailored to the needs of a wide range of prisoners,
including those who are hard to reach, vulnerable
prisoners, and those for whom English is not their first
language.
• Track the progress of neurodivergent prisoners in
education, learning and work (including kitchen,
horticulture, waste management industries/ workshops,
wing work and orderly/peer roles), analyse data and
identify any participation and achievement gaps and
address these.
• Case manage prisoners who require additional support to
access education, skills and work opportunities within the
prison to ensure it is both appropriate and helpful.
Ensuring individual prisoners’ neurodiversity related
information is shared, appropriately and lawfully, with
relevant prison teams, e.g. PEF, CIAG, LSM, AM Health
Care.
• Ensure that the needs of neurodivergent prisoners are
considered in terms of availability of activities, appropriate
adaptations and reasonable adjustment as required and
sufficient places by working with the LSM, activities and
industries managers.
• Raise awareness of Neurodiversity in the prison.
Upskilling workforce to support a whole prison approach
to supporting prisoners with neurodivergence using full
staff briefings, internal communications and 1-2-1
processes but the list of opportunity is not exhaustive.
• Work with key stakeholders to ensure that
neurodivergent prisoners receive the support and advice
that they need to help them prepare for a release into the
community.
The duties/responsibilities listed above describe the post as it is
at present and is not intended to be exhaustive. The job holder is
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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
• Changing and Improving
• Working Together
• 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. Copy and paste the names of your chosen strengths
below.)
Essential
This is a specialist, non-operational role thus it is desirable for the
Experience
candidate to have the following experience:
• Experience of operating in a specialist neurodiversity role.
• Experience of working within the Special Educational Needs/
Additional Learning Needs and Disabilities field.
• Detailed knowledge of OFSTED/Estyn’s EIF (Education
Inspection Framework) and further education and skills
criteria.
• Substantial teaching experience that has developed a range
of strategies for developing accessible and appropriate
resources to match the specific learning needs of individuals/
cohorts of learner.
• History of developing highly effective partnerships with a
range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Worked in a complex multi-agency operational setting to
achieve mutual outcomes.
• Experience of setting goals and achieving targets.
• Experience of implementing change, preferably within an
educational setting.
• Evidence of innovation and impact in an educational context.
Technical
Essential Qualifications:
requirements
• PGCE, Cert Ed or Level 5 in Education and Training.
• Level 4 Certificate in Supporting the learning of learners with
Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND)/Additional
Learning Needs (ALN).
• Alternatively, extensive experience working with people with
complex needs in a neurodiversity specialist role in a custodial
setting or other multi-disciplinary environment.
Desirable Qualifications:
• Level 4 TAQA qualifications in the Internal Quality Assurance
of Assessment Processes or equivalent, Level 7 Diploma in
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Assessing and Teaching Learners with Dyslexia, Specific
Learning Differences and Barriers to Literacy.
Ability
• Strong written and excellent verbal and non-verbal
communication skills.
• Knowledge and use of the Microsoft suite of packages
particularly Word, Excel, Project and PowerPoint.
Minimum
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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
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Allowances
To be used by the JES Team only
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