Prison Employment Lead

5 months ago

Lewes, United Kingdom Ministry of Justice Full time

**Prison Employment Lead - 77555**
**£33,201 - £38,184**
**Lewes**:
**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.

Within the prison estate employment is managed as part of the reduction of re
- 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.

The Prison Employment Lead will principally be responsible for:

- 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 achieve work readiness.
- 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
- effectively captures information relating to prisoner education, work experience and skills
- 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 duties/responsibilities listed above describe the post as it is at present and is not intended to be exhaustive. 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.

**Behaviours**
- Communicating and Influencing
- Working Together
- Managing a Quality Service
- Changing and Improving

**Experience**
- Experience of working with senior officials.
- Experience of working across stakeholder groups and Other Government Departments and excellent influencing skills, showing the ability to deal effectively with conflict and deliver objectives.
- Has experience of setting goals and achieving targets
- Has commercial experience and an understanding of contract management.
- Has previous experience/understanding of recruitment processes/legislation (desirable). ** Ability**
- Ability to engage at Local and Regional Management level.
- Ability to work in partnership with NFN Managers, communicating strategy and priorities to providers and stakeholders.
- Resilience under pressure, ability to articulate and defend decisions on behalf of HMPPS.
- Strong written and excellent verbal and non-verbal communication skills.
- Strong team building and working skills.

**Salary**:
£33,201 - £38,184

**Additional Information**:
**Working Arrangements & Further Informa

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