A fixed-term detached duty post in the Divisional Performance and Quality team of the National Probation Service in South Central. The work is quality assurance across the region: audits, analysis, practice workshops and coaching to lift the standard of probation practice. It is a specialist Probation Officer role with no line management, open to full-time, part-time, job share or flexible working. Candidates need to be qualified Probation Officers with at least two years at PO level.
What the job involves
- Deliver quality assurance activities under the national effective practice programme and review their impact on practice
- Deliver practice improvement workshops and briefings to POs and PSOs and review their impact
- Undertake audits of key work, give analysis and feedback, and contribute to local improvement and quality plans
- Develop audit and improvement activities from local need and evidence from audits, inspections and case reviews
- Support the re-launch and deployment of SEEDS
- Support local managers with improvement activities for staff in capability processes, including 1:1 support for those in formal capability
- Work with local managers to plan and support quality improvement in their cluster or function
- Provide coaching and support to staff groups whose roles are changing
- Play an integral role in implementing the national performance and quality programme
- Guide and support SPOs in quality assurance work
- Respond to risk escalation requests from Community Rehabilitation Companies, set the risk level and decide management of high-risk cases endorsed by a manager
- Carry out safeguarding children and adults duties under NPS statutory responsibilities
What’s required
Qualifications
- Probation Qualification Framework Graduate Diploma or Honours Degree in Community Justice integrated with Level 5 Diploma in Probation Practice, or equivalent
- Qualification recognised by the Secretary of State under section 10 of the Offender Management Act 2007
- Previously recognised England and Wales qualifications: Diploma in Probation Studies, Diploma in Social Work (Probation Option), CQSW (Probation Option)
- Qualified Probation Officer
Experience
- Minimum of two years at PO level
- 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 facing social or personal difficulties
- Experience of working with individuals and groups to motivate and change offending behaviour
- Evidence of analysing information and using it to design an action plan
Skills & knowledge
- Confident spoken English, or Welsh where specified in Wales
- Civil Service behaviours assessed at interview: Changing and Improving, Making Effective Decisions, Developing Self and Others, Delivering at Pace, Communicating and Influencing, Working Together
Checks & eligibility
- Standard DBS check
- Security and identity checks before taking up post
- Eligible under Civil Service nationality rules
Other
- Able to work only within the UK, not overseas
What’s offered
- Annual leave of 25 days rising to 30 after five years, plus public holidays, pro rata for part-time posts
- Local Government Pension Scheme through the Greater Manchester Pension Fund
- Hybrid working where business need allows
- Training and development opportunities
- Family friendly policies, including reduced hours and job share
- Flexible benefits, retail vouchers and discounts
- Paid paternity, adoption and maternity leave
- Free annual sight tests for employees who use computer screens
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
