Prison Employment Lead

4 weeks ago

Doncaster, United Kingdom HM Prison & Probation Service Full time

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 349426**Salary**:

- £34,862 - £40,094- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Higher Executive Officer- Band 6**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Type of role**:

- Other**Working pattern**:

- Full-time**Number of jobs available**:

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**Benefits**:
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- This position is based at HMP LINDHOLME DONCASTER, DN7 6EEAbout the job

**Job summary**:

- Please refer to Job Description**Job description**:
**Overview of the job**

The job holder has responsibility for improving prison leavers’ employment outcomes by assessing the work readiness of prisoners and matching them to suitable jobs; working with employer engagement colleagues, DWP and other partners to promote jobs and training opportunities from the prison Employment Hub.

**Summary**

HMPPS have invested significantly in a variety of activities that give prisoners the opportunity to develop work skills and gain experience.

Employment is managed as part of the Education, Training and Employment pathway, which alongside Finance, Benefit and Debt and a range of support services, provides prisoners with the 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 role of the Prison Employment Lead (PEL) is to identify work-ready prisoners and match them to jobs through face-to
- face interventions.

The Prison Employment Lead will principally be responsible for:
ii. Referring prisoners to work readiness support.

This is a non-operational job with line management responsibilities. This role is non-rotational.

**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.
- Contribute to the Local Partnership Agreement (LPA) with DWP detailing the responsibilities of the PEL, Prison Work Coaches and DWP Employment Advisers and how they will work together at the prison.
- Organise regular opportunities for NFN, DWP 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 remove duplication.
- Liaise with COM to ensure prison leavers who require further support on release are signposted to Education, Training and Employment Commissioned Rehabilitative Services (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.

An ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence through the medium of English or (where specified in Wales) Welsh.

**Person specification**:

- Please refer to Job Description**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

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

**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £34,862, HM Prison & Probation Service contributes £9,447 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.- Access to learning and development
- A working environmen

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