64493 - Regional Crime in Prison Adviser

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Overview of the job    

Serious and Organised Crime represents a major threat to the UK’s national security and costs the country more than £30 billion a year. The Government refreshed its SOC strategy to deal with the threats we face from SOC in October 2018.

The Serious Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) tackle the highest harm SOC nominals in custody and under supervision in the community and use operational insight to build organisational capability and resilience against serious and organised crime threats.

Reporting to the Head of Capability and Assurance [who in turn reports to the Head of Serious Organised Crime Unit (SOCU)], the Prevent and Protect Lead will develop and embed a new SOC Prevent and Protect service offer across HMPSS.

The post holder will be working with internal and external partners to develop and deliver SOC Prevent and Protect action across HMPPS. Providing support to SOCU, prison establishments and probation to manage SOC threats.

This is a non-operational, national post but travel to HMPPS Headquarters, establishments, prison regional offices and National Probation Service offices as well
as law enforcement partners’ offices will be required.

Summary    

The role of the post holder will be to lead and deliver a high-quality, serious and organised crime service to prisons and probation units in the region, in partnership with wider regional teams in the Directorate, HR services and law enforcement.

The post holder will lead on a range of internal organised crime briefings and will share SOC related threat knowledge across SOCU, Directorate and partners/stakeholders.

Responsibilities, Activities and Duties    

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

• Working with the national Serious Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) regional teams to develop a detailed and expert understanding of the serious and organised crime (SOC) on the nature of the threat, (e.g., drivers, risk/impact, effective interventions, threats) and using this as a basis for all practice.
• Leading on the development of the Prevent and Protect service offer to support operational front line. This involves developing interventions and capabilities to protect vulnerable individuals from exploitation to SOC.
• Having a strong understanding of the operational context in prisons and probation, including pressures, priorities, risks and opportunities to better tackle SOC.
• Having expert understanding of the relevant legal and policy frameworks relating to SOC and making sure these are followed when providing services to prisons and probation, and that these are shared accordingly.
• In line with policy and guidance, lead the regional SOCU Prevent Managers to support prisons and probation (via Prevent and Protect service) to prevent SOC activities and protect staff, custodial/probation settings and/or offenders across
  HMPPS in reducing SOC vulnerabilities.
• Leading the regional SOCU Prevent Managers to deliver effective awareness/ briefing/training sessions.
• Develop and implement national strategy to manage the SOC threat across HMPPS. Working in partnership with establishments and law enforcement agencies to ensure SOC is managed appropriately.
• Working with the Head of Capability & Assurance Team to set clear objectives and expectations for the Prevent and Protect SOC service.
• Monitoring and assessing the performance of the team, using management information to support this, and seeking regular feedback from key customers.
• Driving a positive culture of continuous improvement and innovation to improve services and mitigate corruption threat.
• Align and contribute to wider SOCT objectives and work within the region, in particular, working in partnership with National Intelligence Unit/RIUs, Counter Corruption Unit (CCU), Joint Extremism Unit, Risk and Capability Unit (RaCU), Multi-Agency Response to Serious and Organised Crime (MARSOC) and Operational Partnership Team.
• Develop and maintain a range of strategic relationships, including Directors and operational leads, contracted providers.
• Act as SOC expert providing advice to prisons and probation, directly or via their teams, to support the counter corruption efforts.
• To lead and support the delivery of local training and awareness raising, working alongside race equality, diversity and other teams.
• To assist in the design of future training packages by providing a specialist and operational focus to the development of suitable packages.

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.

Behaviours   

• Making Effective Decisions
• Changing and Improving
• Communicating and Influencing
• Developing Self and Others

Ability    

• Strong communication (written and verbal)
• Leadership and partnership working skills
• Problem-solving and decision-making skills, with the ability to drive resolution
• Evidence of leading the delivery of complex business change

Experience    

• The post holder will be required to demonstrate a strong understanding of the operational context of prisons and probation
• Experience of influencing senior stakeholders internally and externally is essential