Isc Probation Officer

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

- 302777**Salary**:

- £30,812 - £38,289**Job grade**:

- Other- NPS Pay Band 4 National**Contract type**:

- Fixed Term**Length of employment**:

- For a period of up to 18 months**Type of role**:

- Other**Working pattern**:

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

- 1Contents

Location

About the job

**Benefits**:
Things you need to know

Location
- This position is based at NMS Centre City Tower (19th), B5 4UAAbout the job

**Job summary**:

- Please refer to job description**Job description**:
**IMPORTANT - APPLICANTS ARE REQUIRED TO HOLD AN **EXISTING** PROBATION OFFICER QUALIFICATION FOR THIS ROLE.**

The Intense Supervision Court (ISC) for Female Offenders, based at Birmingham Magistrates, will be a place where support for a range of social challenges will be integrated. ISCs work by bringing judges together with professionals across the social welfare and criminal justice space to address the root causes of offending. They put judges at the centre of rehabilitation and recovery, linking the authority of the court and the services necessary to help individuals lead more productive and happy lives. Partners will co-deliver a truly holistic programme of care and take joint responsibility for tackling the problems which drive offending.

The new ISC holds-out the prospect of finding solutions to enduring problems: that there can be keys to overcoming the seeming inevitability of high re-offending rates by prolific offenders; that there can be antidotes to the pessimism felt right across the CJS at the pointlessness of short custodial sentences; and that there are cures for the suffering of offenders trapped in an endless cycle of crisis and punishment. It is an incredibly exciting project which stands to substantively improve outcomes for offenders, victims, and communities across Birmingham and the wider West Midlands.

The role will work on the basis of end to end management. Therefore, you will be involved in the completion of pre-court assessments and the preparation of a Pre-Sentence Report, ongoing sentence management post-sentence with attendance at regular Court reviews with the Person on Probation. There will be considerable multi agency working in the co-ordination of the services with the Person on Probation and Women’s Service Providers across Birmingham

Combination of co-location within the Women’s Centres and a Birmingham Probation Service office tbc. The role will work on the basis of end to end management. Therefore, you will be involved in the completion of pre-court assessments and the preparation of a Pre-Sentence Report, ongoing sentence management post-sentence with attendance at regular Court reviews with the Person on Probation. There will be considerable multi agency working in the co-ordination of the services with the Person on Probation and Women’s Service Providers across Birmingham.

**Overview of the job**

Post holders will undertake the full range of offender management tasks with people on probation under supervision including assessment, sentence implementation and producing reports; utilising service procedures and practice directions to underpin professional judgement.

**Summary**

To assess and manage the risk posed by people on probation to protect victims of crime and the general the public by:

- Providing information and advice to criminal courts, other criminal justice agencies and partner organisations.
- Contribute to the management of risk.
- Work with other agencies and groups to prevent crime and meet the needs of victims and people on probation.

In line with PS policies and procedures, the job holder must at all times demonstrate a commitment to equality and inclusion and an understanding of their relevance to the work they undertake.

The post holder must adhere to all policies in respect of the sensitive/confidential nature of the information handled whilst working in this position.

**Responsibilities, Activities & Duties**

Probation Officers may be required to undertake any combination, or all, of the duties and responsibilities set out below.
- To provide professional advice and assessment, including written reports to courts, the Parole Board, other criminal justice agencies and partner organisations.
- To undertake the full range of offender management tasks with people on probation assessed at all levels of risk of serious harm including high and very high.
- To use computer based systems to produce, update and maintain records and other documentation within agreed timescales.
- To ensure timely and effective referrals to, and relationships between, offender management, court teams, victim contact units, interventions, Approved Premises, prisons and external agencies to enhance positive outcomes, manage risk and reduce reoffending.
- To attend professional meetings and represent the PS at appropriate partnership forums e.g. MAPPA, MARAC.
- To work collaboratively with colleagues, maintain effectiv