HQ Job Description (JD)
Band 8
Directorate - Public Sector Prisons
Job Description - Group Reducing Reoffending Lead
Document Ref.
HQ-JES-2562 Group Reducing Reoffending Lead v3.0
Document Type
Management
Version
3.0
Classification
Official
Date of Issue
14 May 2021
Status
Baselined
Produced by
Job Evaluation Assurance and Support Team
Authorised by
Reward Team
JD Evidence
HQ-JES-2562 Group Reducing Reoffending Lead v3.0
Job Description
Job Title
Group Reducing Reoffending Lead
Directorate
Public Sector Prisons
Band
8
Overview of the job
This is a functional management job within a Group. The post holder will provide
strategic support to the Group on education and employment, accommodation,
families and resettlement services, ensuring that the needs of prisoners are met and
delivering against the requirements of HMPPS and taking full account of
expectations such as those of HMIP, Healthy Prisons test etc.
Summary
The job holder will be responsible for providing the Group Director and Governors in
Group with assurance that appropriate governance, development and financial
tracking is managed in accordance with agreed timetabling and in order to deliver
Reducing Reoffending specifications across all sites, ensuring that Reducing
Reoffending interventions are delivered strategically across the Group to meet local
needs and deliver Value for Money.
To work closely with HMPPS and MOJ colleagues such as PSPI and the Education
Reform Team to develop and drive the Reducing Reoffending Strategy across the
Group and maximise opportunities to offer reoffending activity to prisoners.
This is a non-operational role open to non-operational and operational managers.
The role will have line management responsibilities.
Responsibilities,
The job holder will be required to carry out the following responsibilities, activities
Activities and Duties
and duties:
• Ensure that all managers and staff within the Group function provide a
respectful, safe, decent environment for all prisoners and staff. Undertaking
site visits and assessments, as appropriate and communicating findings/
supportive solutions to Group Directors/Governing Governors as necessary.
• Is accountable for the performance of the function within the Group, supporting
the achievement of qualitative and quantitative standards including Service
Delivery Indicators (SDIs) within Group, relating to Reducing Reoffending.
• Undertaking analyses and acting upon data which is relevant to their function
and liaising with MOJ commercial and PSP colleagues to ensure effective
support of Reducing Reoffending contracts.
• Accountable for the management of the Reducing Reoffending function within
Group and for establishments in their Group, working closely with relevant key
stakeholders. This Includes:
o Pathways (e.g. families)
o Interventions
o Health
o Accommodation
o Purposeful Activity/Employment
o Chaplaincy
o Sport Activity
o HDC
o SIG (CRCs)
o Education and employment providers
o Probation colleagues
• Is accountable for the development of Group Reducing Reoffending Strategies
and delivery against the pathways within group structures.
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• Work with colleagues across the Group to support significant policy
management areas in relation to Substance Misuse linked to the delivery of
overall strategic goals as outlined in the Group Business Plan. Support the
development and monitoring of Strategy across the Group and within
establishments, seeking opportunities to engage with partners and ensuring
that there is a multi-agency approach leading to a reduction in substance
misuse.
• Develop a strategic approach to family policies and procedures across the Group
(and significant others), by interacting directly with key stakeholders at all
levels, ensuring all prisons are focusing on implementing the recommendations
from the Farmer Review and looking for innovative opportunities to enhance
this work.
• Support and promote the use of Restorative Justice (RJ) face-to-face victim-
prisoner conferencing models within Group, enabling those affected by a
particular incident to play a part in repairing the harm and finding a positive way
forward.
• Lead the work within establishments to ensure they are developing community
engagement, supporting a reduction to the risk of reoffending. Help support
them to identify and build relationships with community organisations and
strategic partners to enhance Reducing Reoffending opportunities in prisons.
• Ensure that establishments within Group are adhering to organisational goals
including prisoners’ return to the community, monitoring delivery of services to
optimise education, training and employment for prisoners on release.
Overseeing how establishments within the Group are providing enabling
environments and relationships, including Through the Gate (TTG) and
Resettlement Services (where the establishment is a Resettlement Prison).
• May have accountability for the overall delivery of the Learning & Skills contract,
working with relevant learning support leads within the group to support the
direction of the L&S strategy, including input into the oversight of contract
management and commissioning arrangements. Support the Learning & Skills
Managers in establishments to prepare for Ofsted.
• Be accountable for the overall delivery of the Learning & Skills contract, working
with relevant learning support Leads within the Group to support the direction
of the L&S strategy, including input into the oversight of contract management
and commissioning arrangements. Support the Learning & Skills Managers in
establishments to prepare for Ofsted.
• Work with establishments within the Group on the monitoring and assurance on
the delivery of HDC nationally set requirements, in addition to other wider OM
processes (e.g. ROTL, parole), ensuring that follow up actions are taken,
contractual failures addressed etc, which may include advising on the resolution
of an issue, or escalating to the PGD where necessary. Requirement for high
level of complex contract management, through influencing, rather than direct
management.
• Ensure that resettlement contracts are effectively managed to provide value for
money in delivery of services by the CRC, family services providers, learning and
skills and other providers by building relationships within prisons and into the
community to bring in additional resettlement activity, and resourcing/income
generation. This will include the sourcing of grants or funding where possible.
• Ensure HMPPS procurement and budgetary management rules are adhered to.
This is pivotal at Group level in terms of supporting the processes due to the
number of external partnerships . Responsible for the management, assurance,
delivery and escalation of these contracts, influencing the award and re-
tendering process.
• Act as Group Lead for the continuation of change projects that support the
Reduction in Reoffending, to ensure establishments within Group are working to
meet the Reducing Reoffending Strategy to provide Group Directors with
assurance that targets and project milestones are being met, such as:
o HMPPS Family Service Re-commissioning Project
o Children’s and Families Implementation Project
o OLASS Governance Boards
o Chair the children, families and significant other meetings
o Offender Behaviour Programme (OBP)
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o Offender Management in Custody (OMiC) - DIB meetings, local
authority RR boards and reducing reoffending boards
o Police Reducing Reoffending Board
o MOJ Contract Management (Service Integration Group)
o Care Leavers
o Shannon Trust
o Substance Misuse Review Team
o Group Heads of Reducing Reoffending and Offenders Management
Meeting etc. (SIG - CRCs)
o Local RR meetings
o HOMD/HOMS
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
• Changing and Improving
• Making Effective Decisions
• Leadership
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together
• Managing a Quality Service
Strengths
It is advised strengths are chosen locally, recommended 4-8.
Ability
• Promote HMPPS policy in all activities and behaviours, role modelling at all
times e.g. promote diversity, decency, respect, safety and reducing
reoffending agendas.
• An ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence through the
medium of English or (where specified in Wales) Welsh.
Experience
• Knowledge of reducing reoffending work both within the prison and in the
community.
Technical
Minimum Eligibility
Please do not alter this box
• 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
Leave Blank
(Unsocial Hours)
Allowances
To be used by the JES Team only
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Success Profile
Strengths
Behaviours
It is advised strengths
Ability
Experience
Technical
are chosen locally,
recommended 4-8
Changing and Improving
Promote HMPPS policy in all
Knowledge of reducing
activities and behaviours, role
reoffending work both within the
modelling at all times e.g.
prison and in the community.
promote diversity, decency,
respect, safety and reducing
reoffending agendas.
Making Effective Decisions
An ability to fulfil all spoken
aspects of the role with
confidence through the
medium of English or (where
specified in Wales) Welsh.
Leadership
Communicating and Influencing
Working Together
Managing a Quality Service
HQ-JES-2562 Group Reducing Reoffending Lead v3.0