12310 - Approved Premises Annualised Hours Residential Support Worker
| Posting date: | 28 November 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £26,475 to £31,650 per year, pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 12 December 2025 |
| Location: | LL14 6RN |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Ministry of Justice |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 12310 |
Summary
The job holder will be required to carry out the following responsibilities, activities
and duties:
• Contribute to effective team practice, communicate and collaborate
effectively with colleagues to ensure consistency of work practices and
positive working environment.
• Effectively communicate key risk issues to colleagues at handover and
throughout the shift. It will also, at times, require communicating with
Offender Managers, Stand-by Manager and partner agencies e.g. Police,
Health professionals and drug/alcohol services.
• Undertake regular inspections of the building, including cellars and grounds
throughout the period of duty, recording any occurrences/damage or
defects, and monitor CCTV equipment.
• Maintain an active presence in the AP at all times. Regularly engage with
residents in a pro-social manner. Contribute towards the protection of the
residents through observation to ensure adherence to their risk
management plans and general wellbeing.
• Actively engage with and monitor behaviour of high risk residents and
motivate residents to ensure compliance. Challenge and manage
appropriately abusive or aggressive behaviour.
• Contribute to the risk management plans of residents by observing and
reporting any significant changes relating to risk and/or re-offending to any
non-compliance within agreed enforcement procedures.
• Contribute to the sentence plan objectives of the residents through active
engagement in purposeful activities as agreed by the AP Manager and
Offender Manager.
• Ensure that the AP is locked and secure during curfew period. Confirm the
presence and wellbeing of all residents overnight.
• Facilitate the function of the AP as a first/emergency point of contact out of
hours.
• Through observation and/or engagement with residents, provide accurate
information, analysis of situation and risk assessment to the Offender
Manager and/or escalate to Out of Hours Manager, which may lead to
enforcement and/or compliance with court orders, licences, AP rules.
• Support, create and maintain a safe working environment for staff, residents
and visitors by adhering to Health and Safety legislation, ensuring Safe
Systems of Work (SSOW) and Risk Assessments are followed reporting
incidents to Manager.
• Undertake Health and Safety, fire alarm, curfews and room curfew checks in
line with procedures.
• Undertake pre-arranged or initiate room searches based on concerns around
risk.
• Pack up residents’ possessions as directed.
• Set up and/or deliver purposeful activities linked to residents’ sentence plan
objectives as agreed by the Offender Manager and AP Manager.
• Supervise residents’ meals.
• Undertake effective induction of residents.
• Follow prescribed medication procedures including the issuing of medication
to residents and both weekly and nightly audit of medication sheets.
• To carry out drug and alcohol tests in line with risk management plan which
may include times when job holder believes that the resident maybe under
the influence and therefore increase in risk.
• Undertake First Aid if a resident is injured or self-harms.
• Maintain Approved Premises records and files as required, including data
entry as necessary and contribute to the completion of incident reports.
• Carry out safeguarding children duties in accordance with the PS statutory
responsibilities and agency policies.
• Deal with visitors and telephone calls, and monitor the work of visiting
contractors in accordance with health and safety.
• Demonstrate pro-social modelling skills by consistently reinforcing pro-social
behaviour and attitudes and challenging anti-social behaviour and attitudes.
• To work within the aims and values of PS and HMPPS
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 (where specified in Wales) Welsh.
and duties:
• Contribute to effective team practice, communicate and collaborate
effectively with colleagues to ensure consistency of work practices and
positive working environment.
• Effectively communicate key risk issues to colleagues at handover and
throughout the shift. It will also, at times, require communicating with
Offender Managers, Stand-by Manager and partner agencies e.g. Police,
Health professionals and drug/alcohol services.
• Undertake regular inspections of the building, including cellars and grounds
throughout the period of duty, recording any occurrences/damage or
defects, and monitor CCTV equipment.
• Maintain an active presence in the AP at all times. Regularly engage with
residents in a pro-social manner. Contribute towards the protection of the
residents through observation to ensure adherence to their risk
management plans and general wellbeing.
• Actively engage with and monitor behaviour of high risk residents and
motivate residents to ensure compliance. Challenge and manage
appropriately abusive or aggressive behaviour.
• Contribute to the risk management plans of residents by observing and
reporting any significant changes relating to risk and/or re-offending to any
non-compliance within agreed enforcement procedures.
• Contribute to the sentence plan objectives of the residents through active
engagement in purposeful activities as agreed by the AP Manager and
Offender Manager.
• Ensure that the AP is locked and secure during curfew period. Confirm the
presence and wellbeing of all residents overnight.
• Facilitate the function of the AP as a first/emergency point of contact out of
hours.
• Through observation and/or engagement with residents, provide accurate
information, analysis of situation and risk assessment to the Offender
Manager and/or escalate to Out of Hours Manager, which may lead to
enforcement and/or compliance with court orders, licences, AP rules.
• Support, create and maintain a safe working environment for staff, residents
and visitors by adhering to Health and Safety legislation, ensuring Safe
Systems of Work (SSOW) and Risk Assessments are followed reporting
incidents to Manager.
• Undertake Health and Safety, fire alarm, curfews and room curfew checks in
line with procedures.
• Undertake pre-arranged or initiate room searches based on concerns around
risk.
• Pack up residents’ possessions as directed.
• Set up and/or deliver purposeful activities linked to residents’ sentence plan
objectives as agreed by the Offender Manager and AP Manager.
• Supervise residents’ meals.
• Undertake effective induction of residents.
• Follow prescribed medication procedures including the issuing of medication
to residents and both weekly and nightly audit of medication sheets.
• To carry out drug and alcohol tests in line with risk management plan which
may include times when job holder believes that the resident maybe under
the influence and therefore increase in risk.
• Undertake First Aid if a resident is injured or self-harms.
• Maintain Approved Premises records and files as required, including data
entry as necessary and contribute to the completion of incident reports.
• Carry out safeguarding children duties in accordance with the PS statutory
responsibilities and agency policies.
• Deal with visitors and telephone calls, and monitor the work of visiting
contractors in accordance with health and safety.
• Demonstrate pro-social modelling skills by consistently reinforcing pro-social
behaviour and attitudes and challenging anti-social behaviour and attitudes.
• To work within the aims and values of PS and HMPPS
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 (where specified in Wales) Welsh.