GENERAL INFORMATION

Salary
£52,316
Working Pattern
Full Time
Vacancy Approach
External
Location
Kirkham, Preston
Region
North West
Closing Date
22-Sep-2025
Business Unit
Kirkham
Post Type
Permanent
Civil Service Grade

DESCRIPTIONS & REQUIREMENTS

Job description
Overview of the job
This is a functional management job within an establishment.
The job holder will be the Head of the Reducing Reoffending Function within the establishment and will have line management responsibility.
This is either an operational or non-operational job with line management responsibilities. If operational, please see technical requirements. This role is rotational.

SUMMARY

The job holder will be responsible for the leadership, development and provision of the prison’s Reduction of Reoffending portfolio. This will require the job holder to manage the agenda of the prison’s approach to:

• Reducing Reoffending and Resettlement
• Regime design and delivery
• The following reducing reoffending pathways:
• housing and accommodation
• health, substance misuse and social care providers
• finance benefit and debt
• attitudes, thinking and behaviour
• faith
• children and families

They will be the strategic lead to facilitate and enable strong working practices between prison, probation, and other relevant community services to reduce reoffending.
They will be responsible for the design and driving the delivery of the prison’s regime so it meets the rehabilitative needs of all prisoners.
As a member of the Senior Management Team (SMT), the job holder will contribute and implement their Function’s objectives as defined in the establishment’s Business Plan.

ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE

• Experience in the development and delivery of medium-to- long term strategies and/or business plans.
• Experience of working collaboratively with a range of stakeholders including senior leaders and external organisations.
• Experience of implementing change in a challenging environment.
• Experience of leading teams and delivering through others to meet objectives in a challenging environment.

JOB DESCRIPTION ATTACHMENT

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  Band 7 HoFS Reducing Reoffending JD305 v10.0.pdf (Job Description Attachment)

that support the reducing reoffending strategy.

• Responsible for the design and delivery of key reducing reoffending pathways which will include, but not be limited to, housing and accommodation, health and substance misuse, families, offending behaviour programmes and interventions relating to faith, finance and debt.
• Responsible for the development of local needs assessment for the prison, bringing together data/assessments from all other key partners in the prison to inform the design of the prison’s tiered regime.
• Considering all the prison’s operational functions, responsible for designing and delivering a tiered regime, which is designed to meet prisoner need, ensures prisoners are allocated and enabled to attend activities and interventions, operating in line with the National Regime Model and the five pillars of the Ofsted Education Inspection Framework.
• Responsible for driving delivery of the regime through other heads of function, and managers to ensure its effective, and sustainable, running is prioritised, and positive changes are identified and taken forward, w necessary.
• Responsible for developing a framework and monitoring progress to measure delivery of interventions across the regime and to lead on ensuring that the appropriate corrective action is taken w necessary.
• Responsible for locally operationalising and ongoing oversight of the Resettlement Passport. This includes strategically coordinating relevant agencies, ensuring the Passport brings together key information through the prisoner’s journey and to ensure their successful resettlement into society, and maximises opportunities within the different resettlement pathways, giving prison leavers better access to services.
• Strategic lead to ensure join up between prison and probation, including with resettlement teams/pre-release team, promoting and delivering on the OneHMPPS concept within the prison and through the gate. Proactively seeking out opportunities to leverage third sector, and other external agencies’, expertise, services and provision to bring this into the prison estate to support with the rehabilitation of prisoners.
• Responsible for developing a joined-up approach between the Reducing Reoffending function and Offender Management (OMUs), promoting reducing reoffending, and ensuring staff are upskilled and understand the prison’s rehabilitative offer, and that these are included within the formulation of sentence plans

RESPONSIBILITIES, ACTIVITIES AND DUTIES

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

• Responsible for the design of the reducing reoffending strategic approach for the prison.
• Responsible for driving the successful implementation of the prison’s reducing reoffending approach through all key heads of functions and managers across prison and probation teams. This includes the strategic leadership of a range of external stakeholders, to ensure effective delivery of services

that support the reducing reoffending strategy.

• Responsible for the design and delivery of key reducing reoffending pathways which will include, but not be limited to, housing and accommodation, health and substance misuse, families, offending behaviour programmes and interventions relating to faith, finance and debt.
• Responsible for the development of local needs assessment for the prison, bringing together data/assessments from all other key partners in the prison to inform the design of the prison’s tiered regime.
• Considering all the prison’s operational functions, responsible for designing and delivering a tiered regime, which is designed to meet prisoner need, ensures prisoners are allocated and enabled to attend activities and interventions, operating in line with the National Regime Model and the five pillars of the Ofsted Education Inspection Framework.
• Responsible for driving delivery of the regime through other heads of function, and managers to ensure its effective, and sustainable, running is prioritised, and positive changes are identified and taken forward, w necessary.
• Responsible for developing a framework and monitoring progress to measure delivery of interventions across the regime and to lead on ensuring that the appropriate corrective action is taken w necessary.
• Responsible for locally operationalising and ongoing oversight of the Resettlement Passport. This includes strategically coordinating relevant agencies, ensuring the Passport brings together key information through the prisoner’s journey and to ensure their successful resettlement into society, and maximises opportunities within the different resettlement pathways, giving prison leavers better access to services.
• Strategic lead to ensure join up between prison and probation, including with resettlement teams/pre-release team, promoting and delivering on the OneHMPPS concept within the prison and through the gate. Proactively seeking out opportunities to leverage third sector, and other external agencies’, expertise, services and provision to bring this into the prison estate to support with the rehabilitation of prisoners.
• Responsible for developing a joined-up approach between the Reducing Reoffending function and Offender Management (OMUs), promoting reducing reoffending, and ensuring staff are upskilled and understand the prison’s rehabilitative offer, and that these are included within the formulation of sentence plans.

Dependant on operational experience will undertake some or all other management tasks including:

• Act as the Governor’s representative by chairing adjudications and taking charge of day-to-day establishment operations as Duty Governor.
• Promote Prison Service policy in all activities and behaviours, e.g., promote decency, safety, diversity and inclusion and reducing re-offending agendas.

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 (w specified in Wales) Welsh.

The job holder will be responsible for the leadership, development and provision of the prison’s Reduction of Reoffending portfolio. This will require the job holder to manage the agenda of the prison’s approach to:

• Reducing Reoffending and Resettlement
• Regime design and delivery
• The following reducing reoffending pathways:
• housing and accommodation
• health, substance misuse and social care providers
• finance benefit and debt
• attitudes, thinking and behaviour
• faith
• children and familie