12164 - Probation Services Officer - Offender Personality Disorder - Hampshire Wide (South Central)
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 28 Tachwedd 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £26,475 i £31,650 bob blwyddyn |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 28 Rhagfyr 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | SE England, UK |
| Gweithio o bell: | Ar y safle yn unig |
| Cwmni: | Ministry of Justice |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 12164 |
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An exciting opportunity has arisen to appoint a Probation Service Officer into the Hampshire & IOW Multiagency Personality Service (HMAPS). We are a specialised community service jointly commissioned between NHS England (NHSE) and His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS). The service comprises of the Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) Pathway and Intensive Interventions and Risk Management (IIRMS) service lines.
You will be part of a psychologically-informed service that provides consultation, psychological case management, formulation, intervention, and training to the National Probation Service. This is to assist with the management of people under probation supervision who have significant personality difficulties and who pose a high risk of serious harm to others/offending.
The intervention service (IIRMS) works directly with men and women who screen into the OPD pathway and require a higher level of support to successfully integrate into the community. Using a relational approach, and working within an attachment and trauma framework, support is offered at each stage of the sentence from pre-release, during release and for a significant period thereafter. You will work directly with the service users, using a collaboratively developed ‘formulation’ and sentence plan, actively supported by a multi-disciplinary team from both the NHS and the Probation Service. Responsibility for case management of IIRMS clients remains with the community practitioner so this is generally an interventions focused role.
The expected outcomes of the service are to reduce repeat offending, improve psychological wellbeing, increase access to services, and to develop a workforce with the appropriate skills, attitudes, and confidence in working with this population. The post holder will contribute to this work and be given an opportunity to develop their skills and experience within this forward-thinking service.
Your formal base will be a Probation Office near your home location but you will be expected to travel to work in Probation Offices across Hampshire. The team meet regularly at Ravenswood House in Fareham and so regular travel to that site is also expected. The role will require some work in Prisons and at local Approved Premises. It may also require supporting and accompanying clients to external appointments such as GP registration, bank account set up, benefits assessments or to pursue hobbies and sports activities. As such, a flexible approach is required, with a willingness to travel.
You will be line managed by a Senior Probation Officer within the local OPD partnership. You will work in a multi-disciplinary team alongside probation officers, psychologists and skills facilitators. Support will be provided in working effectively with people with personality/relational difficulties.
There will be opportunities to develop areas of expertise with benefits, housing and/or substance misuse. We welcome applications from existing or new PSO's with backgrounds in any of these areas.
If you are successful in the recruitment process to join the Probation Service, your starting salary will be £26,475
The Probation Service offers the opportunity for annual pay progression through a Competency Based Framework (CBF), which if eligible, will see your pay increase. CBF is designed to enable you to move up through the pay band range as your competence grows.
New entrants are expected to join on the minimum of the pay band.
Probation Service also increase their pay band ranges annually in line with Civil Service Pay guidance, which will also apply an increase to band pay ranges where applicable.
Overview of the job
The job holder will undertake the full range of work with people on probation before and after sentence. This will include assessment, sentence implementation, offender management and producing reports. The job holder will provide case management support to a full range of people on probation utilising service procedures and practice directions that underpin professional judgement.
Summary
To assess and manage the risk (including risk management plans and escalation) posed by people on probation to protect victims of crime and the general public by:
* Liaising, providing information and advice to criminal courts, criminal justice agencies and other partner agencies.
* Supervise and manage risk of those people on probation subject to community sentences, during and after custodial sentences.
* Work with other agencies and groups to prevent crime and meet the needs of victims and people on probation.
In line with PS policies and procedures, the job holder must at all times demonstrate a commitment to equality and inclusion and an understanding of their relevance to the work they do.
The post holder must adhere to all policies in respect of the sensitive/confidential nature of the information handled whilst working in this position.
If relevant to the role, some out of hours working may be required (i.e. Courts, Approved Premises, programmes, evening reporting etc.).
Responsibilities, Activities & Duties
The job holder will be required to carry out the following responsibilities, activities and duties:
* To undertake the full range of offender management tasks with people on probation assessed as low or medium risk of harm and to support the Probation Officer grade in high risk cases.
* When providing case manager support, to contribute to the delivery of the Risk Management plan and report significant changes relating to risk of harm and/or of reoffending or any non‐compliance within agreed enforcement procedures.
You will be part of a psychologically-informed service that provides consultation, psychological case management, formulation, intervention, and training to the National Probation Service. This is to assist with the management of people under probation supervision who have significant personality difficulties and who pose a high risk of serious harm to others/offending.
The intervention service (IIRMS) works directly with men and women who screen into the OPD pathway and require a higher level of support to successfully integrate into the community. Using a relational approach, and working within an attachment and trauma framework, support is offered at each stage of the sentence from pre-release, during release and for a significant period thereafter. You will work directly with the service users, using a collaboratively developed ‘formulation’ and sentence plan, actively supported by a multi-disciplinary team from both the NHS and the Probation Service. Responsibility for case management of IIRMS clients remains with the community practitioner so this is generally an interventions focused role.
The expected outcomes of the service are to reduce repeat offending, improve psychological wellbeing, increase access to services, and to develop a workforce with the appropriate skills, attitudes, and confidence in working with this population. The post holder will contribute to this work and be given an opportunity to develop their skills and experience within this forward-thinking service.
Your formal base will be a Probation Office near your home location but you will be expected to travel to work in Probation Offices across Hampshire. The team meet regularly at Ravenswood House in Fareham and so regular travel to that site is also expected. The role will require some work in Prisons and at local Approved Premises. It may also require supporting and accompanying clients to external appointments such as GP registration, bank account set up, benefits assessments or to pursue hobbies and sports activities. As such, a flexible approach is required, with a willingness to travel.
You will be line managed by a Senior Probation Officer within the local OPD partnership. You will work in a multi-disciplinary team alongside probation officers, psychologists and skills facilitators. Support will be provided in working effectively with people with personality/relational difficulties.
There will be opportunities to develop areas of expertise with benefits, housing and/or substance misuse. We welcome applications from existing or new PSO's with backgrounds in any of these areas.
If you are successful in the recruitment process to join the Probation Service, your starting salary will be £26,475
The Probation Service offers the opportunity for annual pay progression through a Competency Based Framework (CBF), which if eligible, will see your pay increase. CBF is designed to enable you to move up through the pay band range as your competence grows.
New entrants are expected to join on the minimum of the pay band.
Probation Service also increase their pay band ranges annually in line with Civil Service Pay guidance, which will also apply an increase to band pay ranges where applicable.
Overview of the job
The job holder will undertake the full range of work with people on probation before and after sentence. This will include assessment, sentence implementation, offender management and producing reports. The job holder will provide case management support to a full range of people on probation utilising service procedures and practice directions that underpin professional judgement.
Summary
To assess and manage the risk (including risk management plans and escalation) posed by people on probation to protect victims of crime and the general public by:
* Liaising, providing information and advice to criminal courts, criminal justice agencies and other partner agencies.
* Supervise and manage risk of those people on probation subject to community sentences, during and after custodial sentences.
* Work with other agencies and groups to prevent crime and meet the needs of victims and people on probation.
In line with PS policies and procedures, the job holder must at all times demonstrate a commitment to equality and inclusion and an understanding of their relevance to the work they do.
The post holder must adhere to all policies in respect of the sensitive/confidential nature of the information handled whilst working in this position.
If relevant to the role, some out of hours working may be required (i.e. Courts, Approved Premises, programmes, evening reporting etc.).
Responsibilities, Activities & Duties
The job holder will be required to carry out the following responsibilities, activities and duties:
* To undertake the full range of offender management tasks with people on probation assessed as low or medium risk of harm and to support the Probation Officer grade in high risk cases.
* When providing case manager support, to contribute to the delivery of the Risk Management plan and report significant changes relating to risk of harm and/or of reoffending or any non‐compliance within agreed enforcement procedures.