23303 - Quality Development Officer - Fixed Term/Detached Duty - Thames Valley - South Central

The Methodist Church in Britain; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working where business need

Training and development opportunities

Family friendly policies, including to

Flexible benefits, discounts

Job summary

National Probation Service is seeking a specialist Probation Officer for a fixed-term detached duty post in the Divisional Performance and Quality team in South Central. The role focuses on quality assurance across the region, including audits, analysis, practice workshops and coaching to lift probation practice standards.

The post is open to full-time, part-time, job share or flexible working. Candidates must be qualified Probation Officers with at least two years at PO level.

Qualifications

• Probation Qualification Framework Graduate Diploma or Honours Degree in Community Justice integrated with Level 5 Diploma in Probation Practice
• Qualification recognised by the Secretary of State under section 10 of the Offender Management Act 2007
• Previously recognised England and Wales qualifications: Diploma in Probation Studies, Diploma in Social Work (Probation Option), CQSW (Probation Option)
• Qualified Probation Officer

Responsibilities

• Deliver quality assurance activities under the national effective practice programme and review their impact on practice
• Deliver practice improvement workshops and briefings to POs and PSOs and review their impact
• Undertake audits of key work, give analysis and feedback, and contribute to local improvement and quality plans
• Develop audit and improvement activities from local need and evidence from audits, inspections and case reviews
• Support the re-launch and deployment of SEEDS
• Support local managers with improvement activities for staff in capability processes, including 1:1 support for those in formal capability
• Work with local managers to plan and support quality improvement in their cluster or function
• Provide coaching and support to staff groups whose roles are changing
• Play an integral role in implementing the national performance and quality programme
• Guide and support SPOs in quality assurance work
• Respond to risk escalation requests from Community Rehabilitation Companies, set the risk level and decide management of high-risk cases endorsed by a manager
• Carry out safeguarding children and adults duties under NPS statutory responsibilities

Skills

Confident spoken English

Communication skills

Analytical thinking

Team collaboration

Education

Probation Qualification Framework Graduate Diploma or Honours Degree in Community Justice integrated with Level 5 Diploma in Probation Practice

Qualification recognised by the Secretary of State under section 10 of the Offender Management Act 2007

Diploma in Probation Studies / Diploma in Social Work (Probation Option) / CQSW (Probation Option)

Qualified Probation Officer

Job description

A fixed-term detached duty post in the Divisional Performance and Quality team of the National Probation Service in South Central. The work is quality assurance across the region: audits, analysis, practice workshops and coaching to lift the standard of probation practice. It is a specialist Probation Officer role with no line management, open to full-time, part-time, job share or flexible working. Candidates need to be qualified Probation Officers with at least two years at PO level.

What the job involves

• Deliver quality assurance activities under the national effective practice programme and review their impact on practice
• Deliver practice improvement workshops and briefings to POs and PSOs and review their impact
• Undertake audits of key work, give analysis and feedback, and contribute to local improvement and quality plans
• Develop audit and improvement activities from local need and evidence from audits, inspections and case reviews
• Support the re-launch and deployment of SEEDS
• Support local managers with improvement activities for staff in capability processes, including 1:1 support for those in formal capability
• Work with local managers to plan and support quality improvement in their cluster or function
• Provide coaching and support to staff groups whose roles are changing
• Play an integral role in implementing the national performance and quality programme
• Guide and support SPOs in quality assurance work
• Respond to risk escalation requests from Community Rehabilitation Companies, set the risk level and decide management of high-risk cases endorsed by a manager
• Carry out safeguarding children and adults duties under NPS statutory responsibilities

What’s required

Qualifications

• Probation Qualification Framework Graduate Diploma or Honours Degree in Community Justice integrated with Level 5 Diploma in Probation Practice, or equivalent
• Qualification recognised by the Secretary of State under section 10 of the Offender Management Act 2007
• Previously recognised England and Wales qualifications: Diploma in Probation Studies, Diploma in Social Work (Probation Option), CQSW (Probation Option)
• Qualified Probation Officer

Experience

• Minimum of two years at PO level
• Evidence of undertaking good quality probation work
• Evidence of working collaboratively with others to improve quality
• Experience of working with a wide variety of people and communities facing social or personal difficulties
• Experience of working with individuals and groups to motivate and change offending behaviour
• Evidence of analysing information and using it to design an action plan

Skills & knowledge

• Confident spoken English, or Welsh where specified in Wales
• Civil Service behaviours assessed at interview: Changing and Improving, Making Effective Decisions, Developing Self and Others, Delivering at Pace, Communicating and Influencing, Working Together

Checks & eligibility

• Standard DBS check
• Security and identity checks before taking up post
• Eligible under Civil Service nationality rules

Other

• Able to work only within the UK, not overseas

What’s offered

• Annual leave of 25 days rising to 30 after five years, plus public holidays, pro rata for part-time posts
• Local Government Pension Scheme through the Greater Manchester Pension Fund
• Hybrid working where business need allows
• Training and development opportunities
• Family friendly policies, including reduced hours and job share
• Flexible benefits, retail vouchers and discounts
• Paid paternity, adoption and maternity leave
• Free annual sight tests for employees who use computer screens