Head of Community Integration

Salary
- £80,175 - £92,800

Number of jobs available
- 1

Detail of reserve list
- 12 Months

Region
- South East

City/Town
- Brighton and Hove, Guildford, Maidstone

Building/Site
- NPS 47 GRAND PARADE BRIGHTON, BN2 9QA, NPS 56-58 COLLEGE ROAD MAIDSTONE, ME15 6SJ, NPS COLLEGE HOUSE GUILDFORD, GU1 4RS

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Grade
- Other

Organisation Grade for HMPPS
- NPS Pay Band D

Post Type
- Permanent

Working Pattern
- Full Time

Role Type
- Senior Leadership

Will the successful applicant have line manager responsibilities?
- Yes

Job description

**Overview of the job**

The post holder will be the strategic lead for partnerships, commissioning and contract management. They will be a key member of the regional leadership team, reporting directly to the Regional Probation Director, and line manage the regional commissioning and partnerships and operational contract management teams.

Ensuring a comprehensive and equitable range of high-quality rehabilitation and resettlement interventions are in place and managed effectively across the region, building on local, regional and national joint-working opportunities such as co
- commissioning, to ensure service users receive well-targeted, well-designed and well
- delivered interventions that maximise their chances of leading non-offending lives.

They will work closely with the national NPS/HMPPS commissioning and contract management functions and the MoJ Commercial and Contract Management Directorate.

**Summary**

The post holder will set the strategic direction and oversee the management and development of all regional contracts and grants to provide assurances that effective and appropriate supplier oversight arrangements are in place, services are meeting agreed expectations and delivery across suppliers and/or local areas are integrated. This includes the mobilisation of new contracts and exit from existing contracts where appropriate.

They will oversee the review of existing contracts and development and implementation of the short, medium and long-term regional commissioning strategies to ensure that the right services are in place to meet service user, operational and wider needs. Accountable for the renewal/extension of existing contracts and delivery of new procurements.

They will oversee the management of key external relationships with the voluntary and private sector markets and wider partners, such as Police, Police and Crime Commissioners, Sentencers, Local Authorities, Devolved Authorities and Health Authorities, to ensure relationships are established, maintained and enhanced at a local and regional level. Maximising joint-working outcomes, such as improving service design, influencing and aligning priorities and co-commissioning of services.

In delivering their responsibilities, post holders will establish close working relationships with their operational counterparts within the region, other regional Heads of Community Integration, HM Prison Service, national NPS/HMPPS partnership, commissioning and contract management functions, MoJ commercial, policy, finance and legal teams, and other government departments.

**Responsibilities, Activities & Duties**

The job holder will be required to carry out the following responsibilities, activities and duties:
**Commissioning**
- Consider best routes for future delivery once existing contracts expire and implementing make or buy decisions within the region.
- Agree new services to be commissioned, including the approach to contracting, the service specification, the length of time, geographical scope and ensuring new contracts are put in place in a timely manner and in line

with priorities.
- Ensure regional commissioning strategies have a robust evidence-base, account for service user and local needs, offer adequate provision across the region and offender groups, align with what services are available through statutory and other organisations, encourage a diverse market, are financially robust and offer best value-for-money.
- Ensure strategies influence, inform and align with national and wider community safety and criminal justice priorities and incorporate best practice and a pan-regional understanding.
- Manage supply and demand for all services to ensure offenders can access the services they need.
- Lead the development of service user involvement in the commissioning of services.
- Accountable for the Regional Outcomes and Innovation Fund budget and ensuring its use on initiatives to tackle cross-cutting social outcomes