Case Worker

7 months ago

Bedford, United Kingdom Ministry of Justice Full time

**CASE WORKER - PRISON OFFENDER MANAGER- HMP Bedford - 74992**
**£28,477**
**Bedford**:
**Overview of the job**:
The job holder will lead the management and assessment of selected low to medium risk prisoners and prepare, implement, review and evaluate their sentence plans with them. The job holder will build effective, appropriate and supportive relationships with prisoners, with the aim of reducing re-offending.

The job holder will act in a supportive role only to probation officers in the case management of high risk prisoners. The job holder will have undergone selection and additional training to carry out this specialist delivery job as a Prison Offender Manager to prisoners.

This is a non-operational job with no line management responsibilities. Will have regular prisoner facing activities/duties.

**Summary**:
Typical tasks associated with this role include:

- Supervise, Manage, Signpost and advise prisoners decently, safely and securely while carrying out all activities.
- Establish, develop and maintain professional relationships with prisoners and staff.
- Maintain and update systems in line with local agreements.
- Prepare relevant documentation to managers for verification/quality checking purposes.
- Attend and contribute to relevant meetings as required.
- To assess and manage the risk posed by offenders to protect victims of crime and the general public by:

- Providing information and advice to other criminal justice agencies and partner organisations.
- Supervise offenders during custodial sentences.
- Contribute to the management of risk.
- Work with other agencies and groups to prevent reoffending and meet the needs of victims and offenders.
- **Responsibilities, Activities and Duties**:
The job holder will be required to carry out the following responsibilities, activities and duties:

- To undertake the full range of offender management tasks with low to medium risk cases.
- No ownership of high risk cases will be held, but support to probation officers in the case management of high risk prisoners will be given when required.
- As Prison Offender Manager, be involved in all relevant processes in the prison such as ACCT and violence reduction/anti-bullying for those within your case load, if this is applicable.
- Act as the ACCT Case Manager for individuals if appropriate (Prison Offender Managers should not routinely be used as ACCT Case Managers, only when appropriate to do so).
- Interview prisoners within prescribed timescales of their arrival. Set and review targets with prisoners and update case management notes on PNOMIS or relevant IT systems.
- Use the Offender Assessment System (OASys) to identify risks and manage offenders appropriately.
- Obtain further information if required from outside agencies to complete a comprehensive OASys report.
- Lead the sentence planning meeting in order to prepare and review appropriate plans.
- Coordinate the activities within the sentence plan through liaison with prisoners and other departments and agencies, including gathering and exchanging information and understanding/investigating conflicting opinions on prisoner progress.
- Encourage and support prisoner to participate in education, interventions and workshops as defined within the sentence plan. Develop strategies to assist prisoners to overcome reluctance to attend.
- To provide professional advice and assessment, including written reports to criminal justice agencies and partner organisations.
- Liaise with the Community Offender Managers regarding Release on Temporary Licence (ROTL) and Home Detention Curfew (HDC). Make recommendations to the Governor on suitability for early release. Inform relevant agencies of release dates and address of prisoners considered a risk on release.
- Support Community Offender Managers with the delivery of plans to enable recalled prisoners to be re-released.
- Complete all paperwork for the cases, including lifer and ISP specific paperwork in line with relevant policies, standards and set timescales.
- Highlight any prisoner who gives significant concerns by their behaviour to the Heads of Offender Management or Orderly Officer. Concerns may be for a variety of issues, for example, any prisoner who has presented in the past risk of suicide or self harm, or if there are any outstanding concerns with regards to victims or further offences and racial harassment.
- Contribute to and attend Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA) Boards and work with all relevant external agencies to protect the public when releasing prisoners under MAPPA.
- Liaise with the Foreign National Department or UK Border Agency regarding foreign national prisoners, as appropriate.
- Instigate public protection child contact checks and share relevant safeguarding information with authorities.
- Undertake the role of the resettlement advisor for prisoners in the specific caseload. Forge, develop and maintain the links between the programmes, the progress, or oth

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