This occupation is discovered within the Nationwide Probation Service, Group Rehabilitation Corporations or voluntary sector organisations in partnership with statutory organisations. Probation Officers may be based mostly in a wide range of areas, together with prisons, courts, hostels or community-based places of work.
The broad goal of the occupation is to guard the general public by lowering re-offending, safeguarding victims and rehabilitating service customers via efficient engagement, monitoring and enforcement to make sure that the sentence of the courtroom is delivered to a excessive commonplace. This consists of working with the service consumer and different companies to develop life like plans to handle the wants and develop a route out of offending. Constant threat evaluation, skilled curiosity and liaison with different companies are key components in efficient administration of service customers.
Of their every day work, Probation Officers work together with advanced and difficult people who pose the next stage of threat to the general public and victims (for instance people who’ve dedicated offences of a sexual, violent or extremist nature) To help this work, a Probation Officer is required to develop and preserve sturdy relationships with a variety of companions together with courts, police, prisons, native authority, youth justice groups, public/psychological well being suppliers and the voluntary sectors. This allows a Probation Officer to successfully handle the chance posed by advanced and difficult people and formulate strong assessments and identification of intensive construction interventions. A Probation Officer is required to work from a variety of areas together with group workplace bases, prisons, courts or may be co-located inside multi-agency groups. A Probation Officer can also be required to undertake residence visits.
An worker on this occupation might be liable for offering assessments of service customers to assist sentencing and supply of the sentence, with the purpose of reaching long run change and a discount in re-offending. A Probation Officer will develop methods of working which might be grounded in educational analysis and able to informing complete plans of intervention, with involvement of specialists and provision from different professionals in response to assessed dangers, wants and vulnerabilities. A Probation Officer could have a heightened consciousness of duties in relation to safeguarding youngsters and adults and youngster safety and can help victims of sexual offences, home abuse, extremism and hate crime. Probation Officers work as a part of a workforce to satisfy operational targets, obtain excessive requirements of high quality. A Probation Officer is concerned within the planning, improvement and analysis of companies and particular initiatives. A Probation Officer shares their information and expertise, presumably overseeing the work of others with others.
Offender supervisor
Probation officer
Accountable officer
Senior case supervisor
Senior accountable officer
KSBs
Information
K1: Laws related to all points of probation and rehabilitation together with sentencing, dangerousness, threat evaluation and administration, human rights and equality and variety.
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K2: Organisational goals and constructions and the way they relate to the broader Prison Justice System and the function of a Probation Officer.
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K3: Key organisational insurance policies and procedures, and how one can embed these into follow.
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K4: Completely different views drawn from psychology, social principle, criminology, desistance analysis, behavioural sciences and their utility.
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K5: The reasoning behind and improvement of probation work with victims.
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K6: The impression of jail upon the person, jail and parole processes and phases of resettlement and re-integration into the group. Appreciation of the significance of planning and getting ready the person for launch.
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K7: The rules {of professional} judgement, together with; defensible choice making, how one can guard towards personal acutely aware or unconscious bias, how one can preserve skilled boundaries and the way these rules help efficient follow.
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K8: The rules of efficient threat evaluation and administration and how one can apply these.
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K9: The impression of jail upon the person, jail and parole processes and phases of resettlement and re-integration into the group. Appreciation of the significance of planning and getting ready the person for launch.
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K10: The significance of efficient communication and the necessity to collect and share data guaranteeing correct and applicable recording all through all points of labor.
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K11: Multi-Company Public Safety Preparations and the function of strategic partnerships and the way this helps the administration and rehabilitation of advanced/excessive threat casework.
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K12: The character of the area people and sources out there there, in addition to the vary of companies out there to help with sensible and social points and/or to offer alternatives to construct constructive social capital and pro-social actions.
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K13: Efficiency measures and high quality assurance processes and how one can implement into follow.
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K14: The significance of sustaining personal studying and improvement and sharing information and expertise with others.
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K15: The function of teaching and mentoring to help work with service customers and colleagues.
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K16: Ideas of efficient workforce work to realize outcomes, construct and maintain efficient working relationships with inside and exterior stakeholders
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Expertise
S1: Combine educational information and understanding into work in multi-agency settings equivalent to MAPPA and safeguarding teams. Exhibit information of the authorized framework and related insurance policies and pointers for work with people posing excessive threat of hurt and/or re-offending.
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S2: Exhibit good communication abilities in advanced conditions and contexts by making use of them in a means which promotes desistance, rehabilitation and resettlement in a single to 1 and group settings.
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S3: Collect, legitimate, genuine, dependable, present and enough data. Recognise discrepancies in data and supply a balanced evaluation of threat, wants and responsivity. Produce strong, nicely written studies, for a variety of audiences utilizing skilled judgement and defensible selections.
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S4: Preserve data securely according to information safety and safety of knowledge and use data to help supply of companies.
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S5: Make efficient use of evaluation instruments to tell choice making.
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S6: Apply power based mostly approaches and make skilled judgements on creating service consumer engagement, together with the chance of inflicting hurt or re-offending. establish interventions to develop sentence plans and obtain constructive change.
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S7: Produce strong and life like sentence/threat administration plans to satisfy advanced wants which might be delivered inside required time-frames and are negotiated with the service consumer wherever doable.
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S8: Work in a pro-social and collaborative means with Service Customers and others to realize compliance, sentence plans goals and constructive outcomes.
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S9: Recognise and reply to behavior which can point out a psychological well being/character dysfunction concern and potential threat to self, workers and others.
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S10: Consider and appraise completely different strategies and interventions. Undertake complete referrals and ship applicable interventions to satisfy Sentence Plan goals and robustly oversee progress.
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S11: Work with different companies just like the police, social companies and youth offending groups, to develop and preserve efficient inter-agency relationships, channels of communication, boundaries of confidentiality and knowledge sharing agreements to guard and safeguard these recognized as being in danger.
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S12: Affirm and suggestions constructive modifications in attitudes and behavior to service customers.
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S13: Recognise the necessity to overview plans and threat based mostly on altering circumstances or behaviour. Decide when the case escalation course of is required and undertake this in accordance with organisational timeframes
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S14: Successfully liaise with the service consumer/prisons/By the Gate suppliers to handle transitions into the group. (By the Gate is offered by a variety of organisations who’re based mostly within the jail and work specifically with companies customers to make sure that their fundamental wants are met on launch this would possibly embrace lodging, medical and Job Centre appointments)
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S15: Apply rules of selling equality, range and inclusion in communication with others.
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S16: Lead workforce work inside personal and different companies to realize key priorities and goals. Successfully handle workload with excessive volumes of advanced instances.
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S17: Preserve personal steady skilled improvement, revise follow based mostly on suggestions acquired.
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S18: Apply rules of selling equality range and inclusion in communication with others.
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S19: Establish and handle the anomaly and variety of the Service Person inhabitants and be adaptable to the altering nature of the sector.
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S20: Apply understanding of home violence and sexual offending and traits of these convicted of such offences together with consciousness of set off components, threat indicators and criminogenic components and the way they relate to offending behaviour and wellbeing
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Behaviours
B1: Work to the very best skilled and high quality requirements, act with private integrity upholding ethical and moral codes.
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B2: Be open, approachable, genuine and capable of construct rapport and belief with all both inside or exterior of the organisation.
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B3: Be adaptable to the variety of Service Customers and the altering nature of the sector and exterior setting.
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B4: Seeks to have interaction and proactively search for alternatives to work in partnership with inside and exterior stakeholders.
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B5: Mannequin pro-social behaviour and encourage service customers and others to do the identical.
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B6: Lead a tradition of openness, difficult others when required, while sustaining applicable skilled boundaries.
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B7: Exhibit values of equality, range and inclusion and specific these in all points of follow and interplay with others
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