Neurodiversity Support Manager

Hmp High Down; Belmont; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A correctional facility in the UK seeks a Neurodiversity Support Manager to implement a whole prison approach supporting neurodivergent individuals. The role involves training staff and enhancing processes for prisoner education and skills access. Applicants should have experience in neurodiversity support and be ready to improve the support systems within the prison environment. Closing date for applications is 24 November 2025.

Qualifications

• Experience in supporting neurodivergent individuals in a prison or healthcare setting.
• Ability to provide training and guidance to staff on neurodiversity.
• Skills in improving processes for supporting prisoners.

Responsibilities

• Support a whole prison approach to neurodiversity.
• Provide training and guidance to prison staff.
• Improve processes for identifying and supporting neurodivergent prisoners.

Job description

Overview

Neurodivergent individuals are overrepresented in the criminal justice system (CJS). Evidence suggests that half of the adult prison population can be expected to have needs arising from neurodivergence, compared with just 15-20% of the general population. Despite a sizable proportion of our prison population being likely to have needs arising from neurodivergence, HMIP (2021) conducted a report and identified significant gaps in the support available for neurodivergent people in prison.

Role and responsibilities

The Rehabilitation and Change Directorate (previously the Reducing Reoffending Directorate) introduced the Band 6 Neurodiversity Support Manager (NSM). NSMs have been recruited across the prison service, including in both the English and Welsh estates.

• The NSM is a specialist non-operational role with responsibility for supporting a whole prison approach to neurodiversity, including providing training and guidance to prison staff to equip them to better support neurodivergent individuals, and improving processes to identify and support prisoners to ensure they can access education, skills and work opportunities within the prison

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Closing date: 24 November 2025