Senior Administration Officer; Integrated Offender Management), Yorkshire Humber

Overview

This is a permanent post but the funding is only agreed until March 2029 after this time you may be redeployed to another SAO role.

Additional task list to go alongside JD with IOM-specific responsibilities:

• Coordination/relationship building:
  Provide direction to Partner Agencies, daily management information, and monthly performance reporting that will enable effective management and development of IOM Cohort.
• Establish good working relationships and effective communication links between statutory and non‑statutory Partner Agencies, building a high level of confidence and trust.
• Develop new links to Third Sector/Voluntary Agencies with a view to expanding and diversifying the interventions available to people on the Scheme in line with national IOM strategy.
• Negotiate and influence partners participating in IOM to deliver agreed service levels effectively through coordinated working, resulting in proper management of cases and genuine results.
• Maintain a good knowledge of people on the Scheme, their offending behaviour, needs, motivation to make changes and engagement with services and provision.
• Facilitate IOM Case Review Meetings, ensuring information is circulated to members beforehand, notes are taken and decisions made are communicated to all relevant partners/stakeholders.
• Liaise with partners to ensure multi‑agency assessments and risk assessments are carried out; sometimes negotiating with agencies to determine and agree assessment of risk of re‑offending.
• Have extensive knowledge of interventions available to the person on Scheme by all various agencies and services: police, probation, housing, voluntary sector, etc.
• Ensure information is shared appropriately with Partners and in a timely manner using agreed protocols and in compliance with all aspects of data protection.
• Support Probation IOM SPO and Police Tactical Leads to ensure that a problem‑solving approach is adopted to negotiate and agree with agencies the type of interventions to be coordinated, balancing enforcement with support, counselling, rehabilitation.
• Liaison and development of relationships between Partners provides focus on the specific needs of each individual case and the overall intentions of the IOM National Strategy; delivery of the IOM programme is promoted/supported by internal and external multi‑agency groups.
• Use information to make critical decisions.
• Act as point of contact for referrals to the scheme.
• Provide guidance to practitioners and wider stakeholders around referrals.
• Gather national IOM strategies and best practice and share this with the wider partnership.
• Scope and identify persons who may be suitable for adoption onto scheme in line with current criteria.
• Research and process referral applications received for consideration onto the cohort.
• Maintain records and share information.
• Update police and probation systems, including Delius, IDIOM and other relevant systems.
• Support collection/presentation of performance management data to ascertain local IOM practices are meeting needs of service users/stakeholders, and to improve quality and availability.
• Be fully cognisant of relevant Partnership action plans.
• Manage and maintain computer systems in accordance with Data Protection Legislation.
• Maintain Information Sharing Agreements ensuring fit for purpose for IOM.
• Work with Youth Offending to best case‑manage the Young Persons IOM Scheme and assist in smooth transition from YOS to Probation where applicable.
• Use problem‑solving to support multi‑agency responses to community safety issues, with particular reference to offending and reducing re‑offending.
• Undertake activities associated with oversight and administrative management of Electronic Monitoring – Acquisitive Crime (EM‑AC).
• Use Management Reports and other sources of information to check compliance with National IOM and EM‑AC requirements.
• Liaise with prisons to facilitate work of IOM/EM‑AC ensuring licence conditions, dates and relevant activities are recorded on systems.