7435 - Custodial Manager Safe Decent Secure
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 08 Gorffennaf 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £36,151 i £37,887 bob blwyddyn |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 22 Gorffennaf 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | CM2 6LQ |
| Gweithio o bell: | Ar y safle yn unig |
| Cwmni: | Ministry of Justice |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7435 |
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Overview of the job
This is a management job in an establishment.
All staff have a responsibility to safeguard and promote the welfare of children. The post holder must undertake the appropriate level of training and is responsible for ensuring that they understand and work within the safeguarding policies of the organisation.
Summary
The job holder will provide day-to-day management of a Residential Unit/s within the establishment. They will manage the work of their group to ensure all local and national guidelines, policies and quality standards are maintained in order that tasks are carried out.
The job holder will be required to undertake incident management response (Silver/Bronze) and undertake Orderly Officer duties via the establishment's rota. In addition to this, the job holder may be required, on a rotational basis, to be responsible for the establishment during the night period. This requirement will be based upon local risk assessment and establishment complexity.
This is a rotational, operational job with line management responsibilities for the management of all staff within their hierarchy.
Responsibilities, Activities and Duties
The job holder will be required to carry out the following responsibilities, activities and duties:
Undertake Orderly Officer duties ensuring any operational decisions or incidents are managed in line with contingency plans
Ensure residential services are managed whilst maintaining order, control and decency in line with local/national policies and contingency plans.
Manage quality checks of systems and ensure social care ‘alerts’, during custody and pre-transfer or release are utilised.
Manage quality checks ensuring make use of information to identify prisoners who may have care and support needs.
Ensure Local Authority information about needs assessments, accessing care and support to meet Adult Social Care needs is made available to prisoners
Ensures care and support plans are not shared with other prisoners.
Ensure there is a process to enable prisoners to make a complaint about care and support services
If the Residential Unit is used as First Night/Induction accommodation in addition the jobholder will:
Manage all aspects of the First Night Centre/Induction, ensuring procedures are adhered to at all times and prisoners receive all elements of the induction programme before they are moved from the wing.
Manage prisoners’ first night initial needs assessment process.
Manage the process for prisoners located on the wing/unit/received from Reception and ensure they are provided with basic entitlements.
Manage local systems that enable all prisoners to speak to a Listener and peer support prisoner.
Manage initial assessment paperwork for prisoners from Reception.
Manage the Induction programme, updating when required to reflect recent and relevant information.
If the residential unit is used as a Care and Separation Unit (CASU) in addition the jobholder will:
Manage and monitor the status of Rule 45 prisoners held in the (CASU) documenting their status, including ensuring an exit strategy has been considered and outcomes recorded.
Manage and ensure completion of all paperwork for the authorisation and subsequent time bound review of prisoners located in special accommodation or subject to mechanical restraints.
Manage prisoners’ segregation review process.
Manage the adjudication process ensuring all adjudicators are consistent in approach and outcome. Attend the quarterly Adjudication Standardisation meeting providing data and trends for the preceding quarter.
Attend and contribute to Rule 45 and Good Order or Discipline (GOOD) reviews for prisoners held in CASU.
Quality assure segregation paperwork on a weekly basis from data supplied from the Supervising Officer on a daily basis which contributes to Segregation Management and Review Group (SMARG).
Monitor and analyse Control and Restraint (C and R) paperwork undertaking monthly reviews to establish any emerging trends.
Manage and ensure all prisoners held in the CASU have a fully completed and authorised CASU Safety Algorithm.
Support and assist adjudicators in completing all paperwork for Fast Track appeals.
Advise staff on adjudications and the processes involved.
Complete Impact Assessments as required for the Single Equality Scheme (Adjudications, Use of Force and CASU).
If required and identified as the daily operational lead for Safer Custody, in addition the job holder will:
Manage the day to day coordination, implementation and delivery of the safer custody (violence reduction, suicide prevention) policy in the establishment.
Manage all statistics and trends in relation to safer custody ensuring they are monitored, analysed and actioned and provide monthly report to the Senior Management Team.
Support staff through contributing to the assessment of prisoners who have been victims of bullying, violence or self-harm advising on appropriate actions to be taken.
Ensure that all prison standards relevant to violence reduction are known and published.
Ensure that all incidents of self-harm, bullying and assaults are reported and dealt with and that staff monitor vulnerable prisoners according to the Safer Custody/ Violence Reduction policies.
Ensure that prisoners are interviewed following acts of violence, assaults and anti-social behaviour. Complete any required investigations and write reports.
Attend boards and consider individual intervention plans for perpetrators and victims working with them to reduce the level of risk to others.
Assist and support staff through contributing to the assessment of prisoners who are in an acute phase of suicide ideation or persistent self-injury.
Act as the nominated point of contact for Deaths in Custody (DIC) and manage contingencies, representation at Coroners Court.
This is a management job in an establishment.
All staff have a responsibility to safeguard and promote the welfare of children. The post holder must undertake the appropriate level of training and is responsible for ensuring that they understand and work within the safeguarding policies of the organisation.
Summary
The job holder will provide day-to-day management of a Residential Unit/s within the establishment. They will manage the work of their group to ensure all local and national guidelines, policies and quality standards are maintained in order that tasks are carried out.
The job holder will be required to undertake incident management response (Silver/Bronze) and undertake Orderly Officer duties via the establishment's rota. In addition to this, the job holder may be required, on a rotational basis, to be responsible for the establishment during the night period. This requirement will be based upon local risk assessment and establishment complexity.
This is a rotational, operational job with line management responsibilities for the management of all staff within their hierarchy.
Responsibilities, Activities and Duties
The job holder will be required to carry out the following responsibilities, activities and duties:
Undertake Orderly Officer duties ensuring any operational decisions or incidents are managed in line with contingency plans
Ensure residential services are managed whilst maintaining order, control and decency in line with local/national policies and contingency plans.
Manage quality checks of systems and ensure social care ‘alerts’, during custody and pre-transfer or release are utilised.
Manage quality checks ensuring make use of information to identify prisoners who may have care and support needs.
Ensure Local Authority information about needs assessments, accessing care and support to meet Adult Social Care needs is made available to prisoners
Ensures care and support plans are not shared with other prisoners.
Ensure there is a process to enable prisoners to make a complaint about care and support services
If the Residential Unit is used as First Night/Induction accommodation in addition the jobholder will:
Manage all aspects of the First Night Centre/Induction, ensuring procedures are adhered to at all times and prisoners receive all elements of the induction programme before they are moved from the wing.
Manage prisoners’ first night initial needs assessment process.
Manage the process for prisoners located on the wing/unit/received from Reception and ensure they are provided with basic entitlements.
Manage local systems that enable all prisoners to speak to a Listener and peer support prisoner.
Manage initial assessment paperwork for prisoners from Reception.
Manage the Induction programme, updating when required to reflect recent and relevant information.
If the residential unit is used as a Care and Separation Unit (CASU) in addition the jobholder will:
Manage and monitor the status of Rule 45 prisoners held in the (CASU) documenting their status, including ensuring an exit strategy has been considered and outcomes recorded.
Manage and ensure completion of all paperwork for the authorisation and subsequent time bound review of prisoners located in special accommodation or subject to mechanical restraints.
Manage prisoners’ segregation review process.
Manage the adjudication process ensuring all adjudicators are consistent in approach and outcome. Attend the quarterly Adjudication Standardisation meeting providing data and trends for the preceding quarter.
Attend and contribute to Rule 45 and Good Order or Discipline (GOOD) reviews for prisoners held in CASU.
Quality assure segregation paperwork on a weekly basis from data supplied from the Supervising Officer on a daily basis which contributes to Segregation Management and Review Group (SMARG).
Monitor and analyse Control and Restraint (C and R) paperwork undertaking monthly reviews to establish any emerging trends.
Manage and ensure all prisoners held in the CASU have a fully completed and authorised CASU Safety Algorithm.
Support and assist adjudicators in completing all paperwork for Fast Track appeals.
Advise staff on adjudications and the processes involved.
Complete Impact Assessments as required for the Single Equality Scheme (Adjudications, Use of Force and CASU).
If required and identified as the daily operational lead for Safer Custody, in addition the job holder will:
Manage the day to day coordination, implementation and delivery of the safer custody (violence reduction, suicide prevention) policy in the establishment.
Manage all statistics and trends in relation to safer custody ensuring they are monitored, analysed and actioned and provide monthly report to the Senior Management Team.
Support staff through contributing to the assessment of prisoners who have been victims of bullying, violence or self-harm advising on appropriate actions to be taken.
Ensure that all prison standards relevant to violence reduction are known and published.
Ensure that all incidents of self-harm, bullying and assaults are reported and dealt with and that staff monitor vulnerable prisoners according to the Safer Custody/ Violence Reduction policies.
Ensure that prisoners are interviewed following acts of violence, assaults and anti-social behaviour. Complete any required investigations and write reports.
Attend boards and consider individual intervention plans for perpetrators and victims working with them to reduce the level of risk to others.
Assist and support staff through contributing to the assessment of prisoners who are in an acute phase of suicide ideation or persistent self-injury.
Act as the nominated point of contact for Deaths in Custody (DIC) and manage contingencies, representation at Coroners Court.