Employment Lead - Portland, United Kingdom - HM Prison & Probation Service
Description
Details:
Reference number:
Salary:
- £33,201 - £38,184
Job grade:
- Higher Executive Officer
- HMPPS Band 6
Contract type: - Permanent
Type of role: - Operational Delivery
Working pattern: - Fulltime, Job share, Parttime
Number of jobs available: - 1Contents
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Benefits:
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Location
- This position is based at HMYOI Portland, DT5 1DLAbout the job
Job summary:
- Please refer to Job Description
Job description:
Summary
The job holder has responsibility for improving the employability of prisoners and supporting prison leavers into employment on release.
Overview of the job
In order to prepare prison leavers for work on release, HMPPS have invested significantly in a variety of activities that give prisoners the opportunity to develop work skills and gain experience.
- offending agenda, which alongside education and a range of other support agencies, specifically provides prisoners with the necessary skills and knowledge to live a law
- abiding life after leaving prison.
A key aspect of this service is to support prison leavers into meaningful, sustained employment on release by working with employers in the community.
The primary function of the Prison Employment Lead (PEL) is to lead on the construction of an end to end Prison Employment pathway, which starts to promote the very real prospect of employment on release to prisoners from the beginning of their journey through the establishment.
ii. Prioritising actions and services needed to ensure prisoners achieve work readiness.
The role will be establishment based with the expectation that post holders will travel as and when required. This is a non-operational post.
The post holder will have line management responsibilities for at least one Band 3 administration staff member, with the potential for additional as and when the work develops.
Responsibilities, Activities and Duties
The job holder will be required to carry out the following responsibilities, activities and duties:
The role of the PEL is to improve employment outcomes for prison leavers.
In order to achieve this, they will:
- Engage with stakeholders within the prison to establish a system that identifies work ready prisoners and highlights actions needed to support prisoners to
- Support contracted IAG and Education providers to ensure the prison induction process properly:
- promotes employment, education, and skills training opportunities to prisoners upon arrival at the prison
- encourages prisoners to develop personal and social skills that improve employability
- Manage an Employment Hub which centralises employment support services within the prison and promotes live vacancies to prison leavers within the resettlement period.
- Champion innovations in employment and industry focused recruitment practices, such as hospitality/construction drives etc.
- Work in partnership with the Prison's Strategic Employment Advisory Boards to improve systems that support prisoners to develop employability, ensuring they meet commercial needs/standards of employers.
- Organise regular opportunities for NFN and other stakeholders to bring employers into the prison and facilitate prisoner forums.
- Work in partnership with Community Offender Management (COM) to ensure prison leaver information is supplied to relevant agencies post release in order to reduce duplication.
- Liaise with COM to ensure prison leavers who require further support on release are signposted to Education, Training and Employment CRS who can continue to support them on their journey towards meaningful, sustained employment.
The job holder is expected to accept reasonable alterations and additional tasks of a similar level that may be necessary.
Significant adjustments may require re-examination under the Job Evaluation Scheme and shall be discussed in the first instance with the job holder.
Person specification:
- Please refer to Job Description
Behaviours:
- Working Together
- Changing and Improving
- Communicating and Influencing
- Managing a Quality Service
Benefits:
- Access to learning and development
- A working environment that supports a range of flexible working options to enhance your work life balance
- A working culture which encourages inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
- Annual Leave
- Public Holidays
- Season Ticket Advance
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