The Head of Unpaid Work leads Unpaid Work delivery for an allocated area within the South East and Eastern Probation Service, part of the National Probation Service. The post covers sentence management for the standalone Unpaid Work cohort, placement contracts, and the area's staff and budget. It is a regional role with travel across Kent, Surrey and Sussex from a base in Surrey or Sussex. A Level 5 management qualification or equivalent experience, and an enhanced DBS check, are needed.
What the job involves
- Lead resource planning across the area, aligning resources to demand
- Lead sentence management delivery for the standalone Unpaid Work cohort
- Oversee placement and beneficiary management, including placement contracts
- Ensure the range of placements meets identified needs and risk categories
- Design and lead assurance of performance and quality, improving or decommissioning placements
- Lead engagement with local stakeholders to source placements and shape local services
- Manage the Unpaid Work resources budget and authorise expenditure
- Secure income generation and make reinvestment decisions
- Ensure operational and sentence management staff are trained to the right level
- Ensure operations meet health and safety, legal and organisational requirements
- Facilitate external scrutiny through the Operational and System Assurance Group and HMI Probation, responding to recommendations
- Oversee staff grievance, capability and disciplinary investigations
What’s required
Qualifications
- Level 5 qualification in a relevant subject, such as management, or significant equivalent professional experience
Experience
- Experience of Unpaid Work delivery
- Experience of planning and managing complex logistical delivery
- Experience of effectively and efficiently managing financial and physical resources
- Extensive experience of leading, managing and motivating staff, and managing team and individual performance to high standards
- Experience of complex disciplinary or grievance matters under HR process and practice
- Experience of building and managing strategic and working relationships with internal and external stakeholders and partners
Skills & knowledge
- Experience of managing delivery in line with health and safety legal requirements
- Able to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role in English
- Behaviours: managing a quality service, leadership, effective decisions, delivering at pace, changing and improving, working together
Checks & eligibility
- Enhanced DBS check
- Security and identity checks before taking up post
- Eligible under Civil Service nationality rules
What’s offered
- Annual leave of 25 days, rising to 30 after five years, plus public holidays
- Pension through the Local Government Pension Scheme, run by 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 such as voluntary 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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The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
