POS: Prison Offender Manager

The job holder will contribute to and lead the management and assessment of selected low to medium risk prisoners and prepare, implement, review and evaluatetheir sentence plans with them. The job holder will build effective, appropriate and supportive relationships with prisoners, with the aim of reducing re-offending.

The job holder will act in a supportive role only to probation officers in the case management of medium to high risk prisoners. The job holder will have undergoneselection and additional training to carry out this specialist delivery job as a Prison Offender Manager to prisoners.

This is an operational job with no line management responsibilities but with supervisory responsibilities when required.

Will have regular prisoner facing activities/duties.

Summary Typical tasks associated with this role include:

• Supervise, manage and control prisoners decently, safely and securely whilstcarrying out all activities.
• Understand, apply and conform to national and local policies.
• Establish, develop and maintain professional relationships with prisoners andstaff.
• Maintain and update systems in line with local agreements.
• Prepare relevant documentation to managers for verification/qualitychecking purposes.
• Attend and contribute to relevant meetings as required.
• Exercise the powers of a Constable.
• Conduct searches on prisoners, staff and visitors as required.
• Undertakes first on scene incident response.

To assess and manage the risk posed by offenders to protect victims of crime andthe general public by:

• Providing information and advice to other criminal justice agencies and partner organisations.
• Contribute to the management of risk.
• Work with other agencies and groups to prevent reoffending and meet theneeds of victims and offenders.

Responsibilities, Activities and Duties

The job holder will be required to carry out the following responsibilities, activities and duties:

• To undertake the full range of offender management tasks with low to
• No ownership of high risk cases will be held, but support to probationofficers in the case management of high risk prisoners will be given when required.
• As Prison Offender Manager, be involved in all relevant processes in theprison such as ACCT and violence reduction/anti-bullying for those within your case load, if this is applicable.
• Act as the ACCT Case Manager for individuals if appropriate (Prison Offender Managers should not routinely be used as ACCT Case Managers,only when appropriate to do so).
• Interview prisoners within prescribed timescales of their arrival. Set andreview targets with prisoners and update case management notes onPNOMIS or relevant IT systems.
• Use the Offender Assessment System (OASys) to identify risks and manageoffenders appropriately.
• Obtain further information if required from outside agencies to complete acomprehensive OASys report.
• Lead the sentence planning meeting in order to prepare and review appropriate plans.
• Coordinate the activities within the sentence plan through liaison withprisoners and other departments and agencies, including gathering andexchanging information and understanding/investigating conflictingopinions on prisoner progress.
• Encourage and support prisoner to participate in education, intervention sand workshops as defined within the sentence plan. Develop strategies toassist prisoners to overcome reluctance to attend.
• To provide professional advice and assessment, including written reports to criminal justice agencies and partner organisations.
• Liaise with the Community Offender Managers regarding Release on Temporary Licence (ROTL) and Home Detention Curfew (HDC). Make recommendations to the Governor on suitability for early release. Informrelevant agencies of release dates and address of prisoners considered arisk on release.
• Support Community Offender Managers with the delivery of plans to enablerecalled prisoners to be re-released.
• Complete all paperwork for the cases, including lifer and ISP specific paperwork in line with relevant policies, standards and set timescales.
• Highlight any prisoner who gives significant concerns by their behaviour tothe Heads of Offender Management or Orderly Officer. Concerns may befor a variety of issues, for example, any prisoner who has presented in thepast risk of suicide or self-harm, or if there are any outstanding concernswith regards to victims or further offences and racial harassment.
• Contribute to and attend Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements(MAPPA) Boards and work with all relevant external agencies to protect…