Probation Quality & Practice Improvement Officer

Ministry of Justice; Aylesbury; Híbrido; GBP 35 000 - 48 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Annual leave & pension

Training & development

Flexible working

Family friendly policies

Employee networks

Resumo da oferta

The Ministry of Justice in England is seeking a specialist Probation Officer to contribute to the development of excellence in the quality of work with offenders and victims within the National Probation Service.

You will join the Divisional Performance and Quality team, working with divisional/local managers, practice tutor assessors and staff to drive quality assurance and improvement activities, including audits and coaching.

Qualificações

• 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 who have experienced a range of social/personal difficulties.
• Experience of working with individuals and groups in order to motivate and change offending behaviour.
• Evidence of analysing information and using it to design an action plan to meet specific goals.

Responsabilidades

• Deliver quality assurance activities as part of the national effective practice programme, and review the impact of these activities on operational practice
• Deliver practice improvement workshops and briefings to POs and PSOs, and review the impact of these on practice
• Support the re-launch and deployment of Skills for Effective Engagement Development and Supervision (SEEDS)
• Undertake audits of key work, provide analysis and feedback to staff and contribute to local improvement and quality plans.
• Working in partnership with local managers, develop audit and improvement activities based on local and divisional need and evidence from audits, inspections and case reviews arising from e.g. serious further offences, domestic homicides, serious case reviews
• Provide support to local managers in delivering improvement activities to staff in informal /formal capability processes.
• As agreed with local managers, provide focussed 1:1 support to POs and PSOs involved in formal capability process based on the improvement plans drawn up by line managers.
• Work in partnership with local managers to plan and support quality improvement in their cluster/function
• As agreed with local managers, provide coaching and support to groups of staff whose roles are changing
• Play an integral role in the work of divisional performance and quality team in implementing the national performance and quality programme
• Provide guidance and support to SPOs to undertake quality assurance work
• Respond to risk escalation requests raised by Community Rehabilitation Companies, determine risk level and if high risk (endorsed by a manager) decide on how this will be managed
• Carry out safeguarding children and safeguarding adult duties in accordance with the NPS statutory responsibilities and agency policies
• Demonstrate and promote pro-social modelling skills by consistently reinforcing pro-social behaviour and attitudes and challenging anti-social behaviour and attitudes
• Work within the aims and values of NPS and HMPPS

Conhecimentos

Probation work

Collaborative working

Motivating offenders

Data analysis

Quality improvement

Formação académica

Graduate Diploma in Community Justice

Level 5 Diploma in Probation Practice

Diploma in Probation Studies

Diploma in Social Work (Probation Option)

CQSW (Probation Option)

Descrição da oferta de emprego

The Ministry of Justice in England is seeking a specialist Probation Officer to contribute to the development of excellence in the quality of work with offenders and victims within the National Probation Service.

You will join the Divisional Performance and Quality team, working with divisional/local managers, practice tutor assessors and staff to drive quality assurance and improvement activities, including audits and coaching.