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87606 - Care Experience Lead, Prisoner Cohorts team in the Prison Policy Directorate
| Posting date: | 24 May 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £39,868 to £50,039 per year |
| Additional salary information: | The national salary range is £39,868 - £43,535, London salary range is £45,824 - £50,039. Your salary will be dependent on your base location |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 14 June 2024 |
| Location: | Leeds, West Yorkshire |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
| Company: | Ministry of Justice |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 87606 |
Summary
The Prisoner Cohorts Team is recruiting permanently for an SEO policy adviser. This campaign is being run externally and so is open to all who consider themselves suitable for the roles and meet the eligibility criteria in the wider advert within Civil Service Jobs.
Location:
Successful candidates will have the option to be based at one of the following locations:
1. 102 Petty France, London
2. 5 Wellington Place, Leeds
Occasional travel between the two locations may be required.
For Policy Group to meet its evolving business needs all Policy Group staff are expected to attend their base location (102 Petty France or 5 Wellington Place Leeds) at least 2 days a week. This hybrid working arrangement is not contractual and as a result staff could be asked to attend their base location more frequently.
Ways of Working
At the MoJ we believe and promote alternative ways of working, these roles are available as:
• Full-time, part-time or the option to job share
• Flexible working patterns
• Flexible working arrangements between base locations, MoJ Hubs and home.
If we receive applications from more suitable candidates than we have vacancies for at this time, we may hold suitable applicants on a reserve list for 12 months, and future vacancies requiring the same skills and experience could be offered to candidates on the reserve list without a new competition.
We welcome and encourage applications from everyone, including groups currently underrepresented in our workforce and pride ourselves as being an employer of choice. To find out more about how we champion diversity and inclusion in the workplace, visit: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice/about/equality-and-diversity
Salary
New entrants to the Civil Service will be expected to join on the minimum of the pay range.
If you are already a civil servant and are successful in an external recruitment competition for a role with us, your starting pay will be the better of:
• promotion terms or transfer terms, as appropriate; or
• pay on appointment arrangements (minimum of pay range)
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ)
MoJ is the largest government department, employing over 90,000 people with a budget of approximately £10 billion. Each year, millions of people use our services across the UK - including at 500 courts and tribunals, and 133 prisons in England and Wales.
Further information can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice
The Work of the Prison Policy Directorate
Prisons policy is one of the most interesting and challenging areas of public policy. It operates at the sharp end of a range of wider social policy issues, with those who end up in prison disproportionately likely to have endured adverse childhood experiences, to come from minority ethnic communities, to have substance misuse or mental health issues, and to live in poverty. Their time in prison is an opportunity to support these individuals to transform their lives by desisting from crime, and we work with operational colleagues and across government to improve prisons’ ability to do this.
Prisoner Cohorts Policy Adviser
We are recruiting an SEO policy adviser in prisoner cohorts team, which focuses on ensuring that our services are tailored to the needs of different groups of prisoners.
The main responsibility of this role will be to lead the development of a strategy for people with care experience in the criminal justice system. Children taken away from their parents and into local authority care are disproportionately likely to end up in the criminal justice system, and research indicates they make up at least a quarter of the adult prison population. Their journeys into the criminal justice system are often characterised by the trauma of the events which led to their being taken into care leading to issues with anger or substance misuse, isolation and alienation leading to exploitation by criminal gangs, and a series of failed interventions from other services.
Improving outcomes for people with care experience is one of the most pressing issues in social policy, and few outcomes are worse than ending up in the criminal justice system. The aims of this role are to deliver a strategy which both:
1. Generates commitment from other government departments to interventions which reduce the number of people with care experience who end up in the criminal justice system; and
2. Improves the support available within the criminal justice system to ensure that people with care experience can thrive in the rest of their lives.
Delivering these aims will include work to:
1. Build an evidence base and narrative which establishes why people with care experience in the criminal justice system should be a priority for additional support, and using this to generate commitment to this support from delivery partners;
2. Analyse the issues which cause people with care experience to end up in the criminal justice system, and working with other government departments to influence their policy and develop solutions which could address these; and
3. Develop best practice on how to support people with care experience in the criminal justice system, and influence senior colleagues, ministers and other government departments to secure resources to implement this best practice.
Alongside the work on care experience, there will be an opportunity to take on work relating to other priorities within the wider division, including potentially on other prisoner cohorts such as young adults and transgender prisoners, and the wider work of the division, which focuses on reducing reoffending. We are keen to shape this additional work around your skills and areas of interest.
Location:
Successful candidates will have the option to be based at one of the following locations:
1. 102 Petty France, London
2. 5 Wellington Place, Leeds
Occasional travel between the two locations may be required.
For Policy Group to meet its evolving business needs all Policy Group staff are expected to attend their base location (102 Petty France or 5 Wellington Place Leeds) at least 2 days a week. This hybrid working arrangement is not contractual and as a result staff could be asked to attend their base location more frequently.
Ways of Working
At the MoJ we believe and promote alternative ways of working, these roles are available as:
• Full-time, part-time or the option to job share
• Flexible working patterns
• Flexible working arrangements between base locations, MoJ Hubs and home.
If we receive applications from more suitable candidates than we have vacancies for at this time, we may hold suitable applicants on a reserve list for 12 months, and future vacancies requiring the same skills and experience could be offered to candidates on the reserve list without a new competition.
We welcome and encourage applications from everyone, including groups currently underrepresented in our workforce and pride ourselves as being an employer of choice. To find out more about how we champion diversity and inclusion in the workplace, visit: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice/about/equality-and-diversity
Salary
New entrants to the Civil Service will be expected to join on the minimum of the pay range.
If you are already a civil servant and are successful in an external recruitment competition for a role with us, your starting pay will be the better of:
• promotion terms or transfer terms, as appropriate; or
• pay on appointment arrangements (minimum of pay range)
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ)
MoJ is the largest government department, employing over 90,000 people with a budget of approximately £10 billion. Each year, millions of people use our services across the UK - including at 500 courts and tribunals, and 133 prisons in England and Wales.
Further information can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice
The Work of the Prison Policy Directorate
Prisons policy is one of the most interesting and challenging areas of public policy. It operates at the sharp end of a range of wider social policy issues, with those who end up in prison disproportionately likely to have endured adverse childhood experiences, to come from minority ethnic communities, to have substance misuse or mental health issues, and to live in poverty. Their time in prison is an opportunity to support these individuals to transform their lives by desisting from crime, and we work with operational colleagues and across government to improve prisons’ ability to do this.
Prisoner Cohorts Policy Adviser
We are recruiting an SEO policy adviser in prisoner cohorts team, which focuses on ensuring that our services are tailored to the needs of different groups of prisoners.
The main responsibility of this role will be to lead the development of a strategy for people with care experience in the criminal justice system. Children taken away from their parents and into local authority care are disproportionately likely to end up in the criminal justice system, and research indicates they make up at least a quarter of the adult prison population. Their journeys into the criminal justice system are often characterised by the trauma of the events which led to their being taken into care leading to issues with anger or substance misuse, isolation and alienation leading to exploitation by criminal gangs, and a series of failed interventions from other services.
Improving outcomes for people with care experience is one of the most pressing issues in social policy, and few outcomes are worse than ending up in the criminal justice system. The aims of this role are to deliver a strategy which both:
1. Generates commitment from other government departments to interventions which reduce the number of people with care experience who end up in the criminal justice system; and
2. Improves the support available within the criminal justice system to ensure that people with care experience can thrive in the rest of their lives.
Delivering these aims will include work to:
1. Build an evidence base and narrative which establishes why people with care experience in the criminal justice system should be a priority for additional support, and using this to generate commitment to this support from delivery partners;
2. Analyse the issues which cause people with care experience to end up in the criminal justice system, and working with other government departments to influence their policy and develop solutions which could address these; and
3. Develop best practice on how to support people with care experience in the criminal justice system, and influence senior colleagues, ministers and other government departments to secure resources to implement this best practice.
Alongside the work on care experience, there will be an opportunity to take on work relating to other priorities within the wider division, including potentially on other prisoner cohorts such as young adults and transgender prisoners, and the wider work of the division, which focuses on reducing reoffending. We are keen to shape this additional work around your skills and areas of interest.