HM Prison and Probation Service
Specialist Treatment Manager (Ref: 19934)
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This position is based at HMP LIVERPOOL LIVERPOOL, L9 3DF
Job Summary
Please refer to the Job Description
Job Description
Overview of the job
This is a management job based in a prison. The post may be required to provide services at other nearby prisons.
The Specialist Treatment Manager will have responsibility for the quality oversight, facilitation and delivery of Accredited Programmes and related interventions in custody which address offending behaviour. This will include moderate and high intensity as well as provision for those presenting with learning difficulties and challenges. It may also include oversight of wider related offending behaviour interventions.
Summary
This is a non-operational job with the capacity to line manage and to provide supervision to staff. This is a non-rotational role.
The Treatment Manager is responsible for providing clinical oversight and ensuring the quality of offending behaviour programmes and related interventions, which includes the preparation, engagement, facilitation, assessment, reporting and ongoing support of participants and staff involved in delivering offending behaviour programmes.
They will provide professional supervision to Programme Facilitators and professional advice to improve performance, skills and development opportunities.
Responsibilities, Activities And Duties
The job holder will be required to carry out the following responsibilities, activities and duties:
- To co-ordinate, monitor and review the planning and preparation for delivering programmes including management of referrals and waiting lists for offending behaviour programmes, communicating with applicants and those involved in their sentence management.
- Responsible for ensuring facilitators are properly selected and trained then providing professional supervision including session monitoring to support the development of skills and maintain the integrity of service delivery. This includes the continuous assessment and support of Groupworkers and other facilitator staff in the development of the skills required to deliver programmes to monitor and identify individual performance and development needs through Treatment Management processes, working with the Programme Manager regarding performance.
- To provide advice, information, training and consultancy as required to staff, prisoners and external organisations to ensure that eligibility and suitability criteria are understood and to support multi-disciplinary approach to reducing reoffending.
- Assist in facilitating accredited programmes or one to one work as required.
- Responsible for overseeing, allocating and reviewing assessments for the relevant programme, to support effective clinical decision making and maintaining an ongoing review of participants’ risks, needs and responsivity, ensuring their needs are met throughout their completion of offending behaviour programmes.
- Responsible for the selection and composition of groups, considering risks and responsivity needs and ensuring national guidelines on the assessment and selection of offenders are followed to ensure that only those offenders who require the programme are selected.
- Work collaboratively with the Forensic Psychology Service, the Programmes Manager, local SLT, other multi-disciplinary teams and national OBP team.
- Chair Post Programme reviews in partnership with the Programme Manager
- Respond to any local queries or complaints about the delivery of the programme and maintain records in line with management manual(s) guidance and local protocols
- Contribute to the function and activities of the Accredited Intervention Management (AIMs) team and attend regular meetings (minimum of 10 per year).
- Contribute to local programme Awareness Training.
- Take responsibility for their own Continued Professional Development (CPD).
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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.
Civil Service Success Profile Criteria
Behaviours
- Making Effective Decisions
- Leadership
- Communicating and Influencing
- Working Together
- Changing and Improving
- Managing a Quality Service
Experience
- Experienced and competent Groupworker, trained in the delivery of an Interventions Services Accredited Programme
- Experience of working within the Criminal Justice or Social Care sector
- A knowledge and understanding of group dynamics and an ability to motivate groups and individuals to participate fully in programmes
- Experience of prosocial modelling / motivational interviewing and challenging inappropriate language and behaviour
- Experience of supporting others to evidence the ability to support staff in professional practice
Technical Requirements
Evidenced ability to maintain and uphold accredited programme standards, in line with the evidence for effective interventions.
Ability
- To have good written and ICT skills
- Effective verbal skills to interact and communicate with a range of audiences
- Ability to undertake the Intervention Services generic Treatment Management Training
Hours of Work (Unsocial Hours) Allowances
37 hour working week.
Technical Requirements
Evidenced ability to maintain and uphold accredited programme standards, in line with the evidence for effective interventions.
Ability
- To have good written and ICT skills
- Effective verbal skills to interact and communicate with a range of audiences
- Ability to undertake the Intervention Services generic Treatment Management Training
Hours of Work (Unsocial Hours) Allowances
37 hour working week.
Person specification
Please Refer To The 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
- Making Effective Decisions
- Leadership
Alongside your salary of £41,197, HM Prison & Probation Service contributes £11,934 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).
- Access to learning and development
- A working environment that supports a range of flexible working options to enhance your work life balance
- A working culture which encourages inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
- Annual Leave
- Public Holidays
- Season Ticket Advance
For more information about the recruitment process, benefits and allowances and answers to general queries, please click the below link which will direct you to our Candidate Information Page.
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Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Strengths.
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Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Strengths.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
Nationality requirements
This Job Is Broadly Open To The Following Groups:
- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)
Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements
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