GENERAL INFORMATION

Salary
£44,100 - £46,000
Working Pattern
Full Time
Vacancy Approach
External
Location
Leicester
Region
East Midlands
Closing Date
26-Aug-2025
Business Unit
NPS East Midlands Community Integration (2021)
Post Type
Permanent
Civil Service Grade
Other
Number of jobs available
1
Reserve List
12 Months
Job ID
8775

DESCRIPTIONS & REQUIREMENTS

Job description
The candidates will be expected to prepare a presentation for the interview.

SUMMARY

The job holder will be expected to lead on continuity of care pathways working in tandem with relevant local partners and HMPPS colleagues to develop practice related to substance misuse and health-related release planning.
This includes designing and consulting on processes to enable information sharing, improving the use of substance misuse and health-related licence conditions, and understanding of health and substance misuse resettlement pathways.
The post holder must ad to all policies in respect of the sensitive/confidential nature of the information handled whilst working in this position.

EXPERIENCE

• Worked with prisoners or those engaged in the criminal justice system with a proven record of good practice in a variety of settings.
• Experience of working across stakeholder groups and Other Government Departments.
• Excellent influencing skills, showing the ability to deal effectively with conflict and deliver objectives.
• Experience of working under pressure and fulfilling demanding deadlines with experience of setting goals and achieving targets.
• Experience of working flexibly as a member of a team to achieve performance targets.
• Experience in delivering change across large organisations and multiple stakeholders.
• Evidence of ability to evaluate practice.
• Demonstrable achievements in managing/supporting change and effecting improvements in quality and efficiency.
• Able to demonstrate well developed IT skills, including evidence of ability to interpret and apply performance reports.
• Experience of proactively championing diversity and inclusiveness both internally and externally.
• Knowledge of health pathways for those leaving prison, particularly for substance misuse and mental health, including the key partners involved.
• Sound understanding of probation processes, including release planning.
  Additional Information
  Following Dame Carol Black’s Independent Review, the UK government published ‘From Harm to Hope: A 10-Year Drug Plan’ in 2021. As part of this and the Prison White Paper, the Ministry of Justice and HM Prison and Probation Service have committed to introduce Health and Justice Partnership Coordinators in every probation region by 2024/25. This role addresses the complex health disparities and substance use needs of individuals in contact with the criminal justice system, who face significantly higher mortality rates than the general population.
  The Health and Justice Partnership Coordinator role will work strategically to build connections between NHS partners, local authorities, commissioners and treatment providers both in the community and custody, to ensure clear pathways into treatment and other provision are in place for people in contact with the criminal justice system. The role will enhance support for people to access appropriate provision and treatment once they are released from custody, known as ‘continuity of care’, and through the increased use of Community Sentence Treatment Requirements (CSTR), which is a core feature of the Independent Sentencing Review.
  The postholder will work with strategic partners to reduce premature death under supervision and contribute to the implementation of the regional suicide prevention plan. This role will work at system level to improve the lives of people in contact with the criminal justice system, specifically around improving and maintaining their health and wellbeing, addressing health related drivers of offending behaviour, reducing health inequalities and drug and alcohol related deaths.
  Working as a Health and Justice Partnership Coordinator is a unique and rewarding role, with a focus on innovation and operational delivery. The postholder will work in tandem with relevant local partners and HMPPS operational policy leads to develop understanding and practice related to health and substance use pathways, designing and consulting on process to enable information sharing, and promoting the utilisation of substance use and health-related interventions and licence conditions.

JOB DESCRIPTION ATTACHMENT

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  PS-JES-0106-Health-and-Justice-Partnership-Coordinator-JD-v2.0.pdf (Job Description Attachment)

EXPERIENCE

We will assess your experience for this role via the following methods
Statement of Suitability

The job holder will be required to carry out the following responsibilities, activities and duties:

• Develop effective relationships with key partners including prisoners, people on probation, prisons, treatment providers in custody and community and commissioners to identify opportunities to improve join-up, locally innovate and drive forward national priority workstreams.
• Lead strategic discussions with partners and stakeholders to ensure a whole system approach to the delivery of health and justice pathways from custody to community setting.
• Use performance data to drive activity to improve probation and prison practice and inform partnership working. With a key of focus on Substance misuse and continuity of care pathways. This is also to include engagement with prisoners and people on probation to understand how to improve health and substance misuse pathways.
• Lead joint partnership working with health and substance misuse partners to design a more integrated health and justice partnership, focusing on continuity of care pathways. W the service exists, drive improvements in service integration between probation and NHS England and Improvement’s Reconnect service.
• Identify good practice and innovation opportunities to improve substance misuse and health continuity of care pathways. Drive these forward locally and share with national teams.
• Provide a key interface between national Offender Health teams within HMPPS and regional probation delivery. This includes escalating local concerns and needs and ensuring communication and delivery of agreed national activity.
• Increase understanding within Probation about good practice and health and substance misuse pathways to support continuity of care, operating as a specialist point of contact across the region for both Probation and its partners.
• Drive partnership working with the prison Drug Strategy Leads and PGD leads offering advice and support to manage the transition into the community to improve substance misuse continuity of care.

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.