A permanent Executive Officer post in the National Crime in Prison team within the Ministry of Justice Security Group, covering prisons across the East of England. The role coordinates crime-related activity in prisons, applies policy consistently and supports the Crime in Prison Referral Agreement, improving evidence handling and partnership working. It is a mobile, peripatetic post, with postholders deployed to individual prisons or clusters for set periods and rotated between sites. Security checks are required before appointment.
What the job involves
- Coordinate crime-related activity within prisons and ensure consistent application of policy
- Support the Crime in Prison Referral Agreement (CiPRA) and embed effective crime management processes
- Provide targeted, needs-led support to single prisons or clusters on defined temporary deployments
- Strengthen crime management processes and improve evidence handling
- Promote effective partnership working with criminal justice agencies
- Improve outcomes for victims and witnesses of crime
- Help establishments develop sustainable processes and resilience, informing long-term resource and capability needs
- Move between establishments in line with area needs analysis and planned rotation
- Have prisoner contact where required (non-operational role)
What’s required
Experience
- Relevant experience evidenced in a statement of suitability
Skills & knowledge
- Changing and Improving behaviour
- Managing a Quality Service behaviour
- Communicating and Influencing
- Making Effective Decisions
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Working Together
Checks & eligibility
- DBS standard check
- Security clearance (SC)
- Eligible under Civil Service nationality rules
Other
- Willingness to be deployed across the East region, a contractual requirement
What’s offered
- Annual leave, holiday year running from 1 March
- 9 days for bank, public and privilege holidays
- Choice of two Civil Service pension schemes
- Hybrid working where business need allows
- Flexible working under HMPPS policy
- Season ticket advance after two months' service
- Training and promotion programmes
- Security and diversity training with individual induction
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
