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About the Role
The post holder will identify areas for improvement regarding access to accommodation for prison leavers and will collaborate with key housing stakeholders, probation services, and homelessness prevention teams to implement sustainable change. They will ensure integration between prisons and relevant teams and support senior leaders in improving data quality and usage. Prison familiarization training will be provided.
Responsibilities
- Split time flexibly between assigned prisons.
- Offer ad-hoc housing advice to prisons releasing low numbers to the UK.
- Identify areas for improvement in accommodation access for prison leavers.
- Implement sustainable change in partnership with housing stakeholders, probation services, and homelessness prevention teams.
- Ensure integration between prisons and homelessness prevention teams.
- Support senior leaders to improve data quality and usage.
- Understand the security category of the base prison and geographical release locations.
Requirements
- All candidates are subject to security and identity checks.
- External candidates are subject to a 6-month probation period.
- Internal candidates are subject to probation if they have not already served one within HMPPS.
- All staff are required to declare membership in groups considered racist by HMPPS.
- Must be a UK national, national of the Republic of Ireland, a Commonwealth citizen with the right to work in the UK, or a national of the EU/Switzerland/Norway/Iceland/Liechtenstein with settled/pre-settled status, or Turkish national with the right to work in the Civil Service.
Skills
- Housing advice
- Stakeholder collaboration
- Data quality improvement
- Trauma-informed approach (for women's estate roles)
- Gender-specific approach (for women's estate roles)
Location
- London
Work Type
- Hybrid Working
- Part Time
- Permanent
Experience Level
- HEO (Higher Executive Officer) Civil Service Grade
Salary/Compensations
- £46,415 - £50,534 Pro-rata
Benefits
- Annual Leave
- Bank, Public and Privilege Holidays (9 days)
- Pension scheme options
- Work Life Balance initiatives
- Season Ticket Advance eligibility
- Training and development opportunities (Equality and Diversity, Dealing with Challenging Behaviour, Suicide Prevention, Anti Bullying, promotion programmes, security and diversity training, individual induction)
- Guaranteed interview for veterans (Making the Civil Service a Great Place to work for veterans initiative)
- Interview opportunities for candidates at risk of redundancy (Redeployment Interview Scheme)
About the Company
- The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) offers Hybrid Working arrangements where business need allows.
- The MoJ is committed to providing everyone with the opportunity to demonstrate their skills, talent and abilities as a Disability Confident employer.
- The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent.
- The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
- HMPPS (HM Prison & Probation Service) is keen to encourage alternative working arrangements and flexible working.
Equal Opportunity
- As a Disability Confident employer, MoJ are committed to providing everyone with the opportunity to demonstrate their skills, talent and abilities, by making adjustments throughout all elements of the recruitment process and in the workplace.
- MoJ are able to offer an interview to disabled candidates who meet the minimum selection criteria.
- The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found.
- A Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative includes a guaranteed interview scheme to those who meet the minimum criteria.
- The MoJ is committed, as part of the Redeployment Interview Scheme, to providing opportunities to those who are 'at risk of redundancy'.