Job Description (JD)
Band 11
Group Profile: Governor Complex (GC)
Job Description: GC: Governor Complex
Document Ref.
OR-JES-265-JD-B11 : GC : Governor Complex v11.0
Document Type
Management
Version
11.0
Classification
Official
Date of Issue
23 December 2022
Status
Baselined
Produced by
Job Evaluation Assurance and Support Team
Authorised by
Reward Team
JD Evidence
OR-JES-265-JD-B11 : GC : Governor Complex v11.0
Job Description
Job Title
GC : Governor
Group Profile
Governor Complex
Organisation Level
Senior Management
Band
11
Overview of the job
This is a senior management job within an establishment.
Summary
The job holder will provide leadership, vision and strategic direction for an
establishment, holding overall accountability for ensuring it is secure and
operationally stable, whilst maintaining decency and compliance with performance
measures and targets, this may include the Offender Management in Custody Model
by taking accountability as Governor to deliver the custodial phase of the sentence
including, involving the line management of a Senior Probation Officer .
This is an operational job with line management responsibilities.
Responsibilities,
The job holder will be required to carry out the following responsibilities, activities
Activities and Duties
and duties:
• Accountable for ensuring a safe, decent and secure environment is maintained
for prisoners and staff
• Accountable for providing leadership and direction for staff including coaching
and mentoring for managers
• Lead on the development and communication of a decency strategy for the
establishment that encompasses staff, prisoners and visitors
• Accountable for the promotion of prison service policy in all activities and
behaviours by promoting diversity, decency, safety and reducing re-offending
agendas
• Accountable for strategic planning and assessing particular needs of
establishment prisoner population and making changes to regimes accordingly
• Accountable for ensuring the establishment has effective contingency and
emergency plans in place
• Accountable for local employee relations maintaining and building relationships
and partnerships where possible to facilitate negotiations with trade unions
• Accountable for the establishment’s overall achievement of Service Delivery
Indicators (SDIs) and standards, leading on the performance and delivery of
targets relating to the budget and People Plan
• Accountable for promoting and sustaining a performance management culture
within the establishment
• Accountable for the performance and development of the Senior Management
Team (SMT), actively addressing underperformance whilst valuing the positive
contributions of staff
• Accountable for ensuring the Deputy Governor and Heads of Functions comply
with HR policies including Governor and will be required to manage Heads of
Function within the prison which may include the SPO within the new OMiC
process/model in conjunction with the Deputy Directors of the Local Divisional
Units in probation services.
• Accountable for ensuring that Deputy Governor and Heads of functions comply
with action plans as a result of Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP),
Standards Audit Unit (SAU) and Measuring the Quality of Prison Life (MQPL)
findings/reports
• Accountable for active participation of the establishment in national working
groups, maintaining a current awareness of political, social, legislative and policy
changes affecting HMPPS
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• Accountable for chairing local grievance appeals, conduct and discipline and
capability hearings
• Accountable for ensuring that appropriate jobs are undertaken in the
establishment during serious incidents when required
• Accountable for the management prioritisation and allocation of resources to
deliver the Establishment strategic plan
• Accountable for fostering and progressing open and positive external
relationships with stakeholders to the mutual benefit of the establishment and
the community, ensuring the delivery of these services through Service Level
Agreements (SLA)
• Accountable for ensuring key messages are delivered to all staff through
appropriate levels of communication e.g. full staff briefings, presentations and
staff notices
• Accountable for reviewing and sanctioning impact assessments for policies
before local implementation
• Accountable for representing the establishment in any litigation claims
• Accountable for overall monitoring and control of the establishment budget,
prioritising expenditure with budget holders
• Accountable for the completion of ad-hoc projects or initiatives on behalf of
Deputy Director of Custody (DDC)
• Accountable for facilitating and escorting important visits, including Ministers
and MPs
• Accountable for ensuring SMT are visible throughout the establishment and
personally carry out regular visits to all areas
• Accountable for managing media interest in the establishment, ensuring that
any messages released are appropriate
• Undertake investigations on behalf of the DDC as required
• Accountable for devising a response to delivering a method of efficiency savings
• Accountable for the submission of compliance statements as required by Audit
Corporate Assurance (ACA)
• Accountable for ensuring a programme of compliance for covert testing
• Provide leadership, direction, and manage the risk associated with the 3 escape
risk classifications of Category A prisoners, ensuring they are supervised and
managed between establishment staff and partner agencies at all times both
within the Establishment and when being escorted
• Liaise with and make recommendations to the Director of High Security on
categorisation changes, while maintaining effective communication with other
Directorate of High Security (DHS) establishments and Police response teams to
ensure the safe dispersal of complex and dangerous prisoners who require the
highest level of security conditions
• Chair Category A reviews when required
• Act as Strategic lead for succession planning for the establishment
• Chair Diversity Race, Equality Action Team meetings
• Accountable for authorising actions required under RIPA, taking responsibility
for the local corruption prevention contact
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.
Behaviours
• Delivering at Pace
• Leadership
• Communicating and Influencing
• Seeing the Bigger Picture
• Managing a Quality Service
• Developing Self and Others
• Making Effective Decisions
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Strengths
It is advised strengths are chosen locally, recommended 4-8.
Experience
Technical
The job holder must have either been successfully accredited at the Senior
requirements
Operational Manager (SOM) assessment or been successfully accredited by passing
both the Governor Assessment Centre (GAC) and the Deputy Governor & Governor
Incident Management Silver Command (IMSC) Assessment.
(or i.e. those that have passed national Governor 3 Board prior to July 2000)
An ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence through the medium
of English or (where specified in Wales) Welsh
Ability
Minimum Eligibility
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• 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
37 hour working week
(Unsocial Hours)
Allowances
Required Hours Allowance
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
Behaviours
It is advised strengths
Ability
Experience
Technical
are chosen locally,
recommended 4-8
Delivering at Pace
The job holder must have either
been successfully accredited at
the Senior Operational
Manager (SOM) assessment or
been successfully accredited by
passing both the Governor
Assessment Centre (GAC) and
the Deputy Governor &
Governor Incident Management
Silver Command (IMSC)
Assessment.
(or i.e. those that have passed
national Governor 3 Board prior
to July 2000)
Leadership
An ability to fulfil all spoken
aspects of the role with
confidence through the
medium of English or (where
specified in Wales) Welsh
Communicating and Influencing
Seeing the Big Picture
Managing a Quality Service
Developing Self and Others
OR-JES-265-JD-B11 : GC : Governor Complex v11.0
Making Effective Decisions
OR-JES-265-JD-B11 : GC : Governor Complex v11.0