Senior Probation Officer
Service care solutions is a market leading recruitment company, specialising in the probation sector recruiting for numerous roles across the country with a wide range of opportunities.
All our roles are temporary contracts, below is a summary of the roles that we offer.
Full time - Senior Probation officer via agency.
LOCATION: Southampton
HOURS: 37 hours per week.
PAY RATE: £26.48 - £28.23 (Experience depending)
Full Job Description
Depending on the role, work may include:
- Managing the stand alone UPW practitioner team
- Ensure delivery of effective Offender Management by the team to achieve high standards of public protection and a reduction in re-offending.
- Operational partnership working in the Probation Delivery Unit, criminal justice, and public protection systems.
- Management of the activities in the team to ensure effective distribution, completion, and monitoring of activity to achieve operational and strategic goals.
- Implementation of policy and practice instructions in the team to deliver high standards of performance.
- Ensuring the team works effectively together to deliver and record high performance
- Working with partners to ensure effective multi agency action on individual cases and to meet specific local requirements
- Manage all activity within the team to meet standards and conform to National Policy.
- The job holder is expected to accept reasonable alterations and additional tasks of a similar level that may be necessary.
Essential Requirements
- Possession of a Probation Qualification Framework Graduate Diploma/ Honours Degree in Community Justice integrated with Level 5 Diploma in Probation Practice, or a recognised qualification by the Secretary of State for Justice as per Section 10 of the Offender Management Act 2007.
- Evidence of working for a recognised provider of probation services in the last 5 years.
- Experience of working at Manager level including day to day people and performance management.
- Experience of contributing directly to public protection through multi-agency arrangements and individual case work review, discussion, and feedback.
- Experience of managing/supporting change and effecting improvements in quality and efficiency.
- Experience of using and maintaining Probation Service computer-based systems to produce, update and maintain records and other documentation within agreed timescales - NDelius and OASys.
- Experience of ability to implement health and safety policies.
- In depth knowledge of the operational standards, good practice and policies within Offender Management including risk assessment and management, and public protection requirements.
- Knowledge and understanding of the factors which influence engagement with victims.
- Committed to implementing anti-discriminatory policy and practice, and championing diversity and inclusiveness both internally and externally
- Understanding of the role of the Probation Service in the Criminal Justice System and in a multi-disciplinary setting.
- Ability to develop and sustain effective working relationships with staff in other agencies.
- Proven organisational skills including the ability to meet deadlines.