23028 HMP Winchester Neurodiversity Support Manager
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Job Summary
Overview of the job
Summary
The post holder will be responsible for leading on supporting prisoners with needs arising from neurodivergence.Responsibilities Activities and Duties
The job holder will be required to carry out the following responsibilities activities and duties:- Focus on improving and ensuring that the quality of neurodiversity support and provision is at least good and moving towards outstanding. This is to include assessment of quality to inform the prison education skills and work improvement plan which can be applied across various learning channels e.g. classroom industries work areas workshops gym etc.
- Develop and maintain neurodiversity needs strategy for the prison incorporating and working with key stakeholders. This should include as a minimum: Head of Education Skills and Work (HoESW) LSM Head of Reducing Reoffending (HoRR) Provider education and/or curriculum managers (including regional leads) Employment lead New Futures Network (NFN) broker Prison Work Coach Head of Offender Management Unit libraries Careers Information Advice and Guidance (CIAG) activities gym industries manager key worker.
- Develop and maintain the systems and structures to ensure that delivery of all Education Skills and Work activity is appropriate to all cohorts. Recommend and test related solutions leading into an improvement plan. Working with Senior Management Team (SMT) to implement maintain invest and update it as necessary.
- Manage the collection and collating of data on neurodiversity at local level. Continually analyse and evaluate current practice for how neurodiversity provision is tailored to the needs of a wide range of prisoners including those who are hard to reach vulnerable prisoners and those for whom English is not their first language.
- Track the progress of neurodivergent prisoners in education learning and work (including kitchen horticulture waste management industries/ workshops wing work and orderly/peer roles) analyse data and identify any participation and achievement gaps and address these.
- Case manage prisoners who require additional support to access education skills and work opportunities within the prison to ensure it is both appropriate and helpful. Ensuring individual prisoners neurodiversity related information is shared appropriately and lawfully with relevant prison teams e.g. PEF CIAG LSM AM Health Care.
- Ensure that the needs of neurodivergent prisoners are considered in terms of availability of activities appropriate adaptations and reasonable adjustment as required and sufficient places by working with the LSM activities and industries managers.
- Raise awareness of Neurodiversity in the prison. Upskilling workforce to support a whole prison approach to supporting prisoners with neurodivergence using full staff briefings internal communications and 1-2-1 processes but the list of opportunity is not exhaustive.
- Work with key stakeholders to ensure that neurodivergent prisoners receive the support and advice that they need to help them prepare for a release into the community.
Civil Service Success Profile Criteria
Behaviours
- Changing and Improving
- Working Together
- Managing a Quality Service
Essential Experience
- Experience of operating in a specialist neurodiversity role.
- Experience of working within the Special Educational Needs/ Additional Learning Needs and Disabilities field.
- Detailed knowledge of OFSTED/Estyns EIF (Education Inspection Framework) and further education and skills criteria.
- Substantial teaching experience that has developed a range of strategies for developing accessible and appropriate resources to match the specific learning needs of individuals/ cohorts of learner.
- History of developing highly effective partnerships with a range of internal and external stakeholders.
- Worked in a complex multi-agency operational setting to achieve mutual outcomes.
- Experience of setting goals and achieving targets.
- Experience of implementing change preferably within an educational setting.
- Evidence of innovation and impact in an educational context.
Technical requirements
Essential Qualifications:- PGCE Cert Ed or Level 5 in Education and Training.
- Level 4 Certificate in Supporting the learning of learners with Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND)/Additional Learning Needs (ALN).
- Alternatively extensive experience working with people with complex needs in a neurodiversity specialist role in a custodial setting or other multi-disciplinary environment.
- Level 4 TAQA qualifications in the Internal Quality Assurance of Assessment Processes or equivalent Level 7 Diploma in Assessing and Teaching Learners with Dyslexia Specific Learning Differences and Barriers to Literacy.
Ability
- Strong written and excellent verbal and non-verbal communication skills.
- Knowledge and use of the Microsoft suite of packages particularly Word Excel Project and PowerPoint.
Working Arrangements & Further Information
The MoJ offers Hybrid Working arrangements where business need allows. This is an informal non-contractual form of flexible working that blends working from your base location different MoJ sites and / or from home (please be aware that this role can only be worked in the UK and not overseas). Some roles will not be suitable for Hybrid Hybrid Working will not suit everyones circumstances. Arrangements will be discussed and agreed with the successful candidate(s) and subject to regular review.
For nationally advertised roles the successful candidate(s) will be appointed to aMoJoffice location which may include their nearest Justice Collaboration Centre or Justice Satellite Office. This will be discussed and agreed on the completion of pre-employment checks.
Some of MoJs terms and conditions of service are changing as part of Civil Service reform. The changes will apply to staff joining MoJ who are new to the Civil Service. Staff joining MoJ from other civil service employers will transfer onto the new MoJ terms if they are already on modernised terms in their current post or onto unmodernised MoJ terms if they are on unmodernised terms at their current post. Details will be available if an offer is made.
Standard full time working hours are 37 hours per week excluding breaks which are unpaid. HMPPS welcomes part-time flexible and job-sharing working patterns where they meet the demands of the role and business needs. All applications for part-time flexible and job-sharing working patterns will be considered in accordance withthe HMPPS Flexible Working policy.
If you are a current NPS employee this vacancy may be available on a Loan basis for up to 2 years. Applications are invited from suitable qualified staff.
The Loan/Secondment is subject to the approval of the selected candidates Business Unit which should be obtained before confirmation of appointment.
Benefits
Annual Leave
-The holiday year runs from 1 March. If you work a non standard work pattern your leave entitlement may be expressed in either hours or days as appropriate. Leave entitlement is calculated on a pro-rata basis and you will be advised of your actual entitlement on appointment. If you were appointed internally and your leave was previously calculated in days this will continue to be the case.
Bank Public and Privilege Holidays
-You are entitled to 9 days (66 hours 36 minutes) in recognition of bank public and privilege holidays. These hours are added to your annual leave allowance. There is a requirement to work some public and bank holidays subject to your shift pattern and the operational needs of the establishment
Pension
-The Civil Service offers a choice of two pension schemes giving you the flexibility to choose the pension that suits you best.
Work Life Balance
HM Prison & Probation Service(HMPPS) is keen to encourage alternative working arrangements. Work life balance provides greater opportunities for staff to work more flexibly wherever managers and establishments can accommodate requests to do so. HMPPS offers flexible working subject to completion of a satisfactory probationary period and NVQ
Season Ticket Advance
-After two months service youll be eligible to apply for a season ticket advance to purchase a quarterly or longer-period season ticket for travel between home and your place of work
Childcare Vouchers
For any moves across the Civil Service may have implications on your ability to carry on claiming childcare vouchers
Training
HMPPS is committed to staff development and offers a range of training and development opportunities including areas such as Equality and Diversity Dealing with Challenging Behaviour Suicide Prevention and Anti Bullying Programmes
-There are opportunities to access promotion programmes and HMPPS provides a variety of training appropriate to individual posts
-All staff receive security and diversity training and an individual induction programme into their new roles
Eligibility
-All candidates are subject to security and identity checks prior to taking up post
-All external candidates are subject to 6 months probation. Internal candidates are subject to probation if they have not already served a probationary period within HMPPS
-All staff are required to declare whether they are a member of a group or organisation which the HMPPS considers to be racist
Working for the Civil Service
TheCivil Service Codesets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition as outlined in the Civil Service Commissionsrecruitment principles.Should you feel that the recruitment process has breached the recruitment principles you are able to raise a formal complaint in the following order
- To Transformative Business Services (0(Monday to Friday 8am - 6pm) or e mail);
- To Ministry of Justice Resourcing team();
- To the Civil Service Commission (details availablehere)
As a Disability Confident employer MoJ are committed to providing everyone with the opportunity to demonstrate their skills talent and abilities by making adjustments throughout all elements of the recruitment process and in the workplace. MoJ are able to offer an interview to disabled candidates who meet the minimum selection criteria except in a limited number of campaigns.
You will be able to request reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process within the application form. If you need additional help completing the application form please contact the TBS Recruitment Enquiries Team.
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Diversity & Inclusion
The Civil Service is committed to attract retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see theCivil Service People Planand theCivil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy.
A Great Place to Work for Veterans
The Making the Civil Service a Great Place to work for veterans initiative includes a guaranteed interview scheme to those who meet the minimum criteria to provide eligible former members of the Armed Forces with opportunities to secure rewarding jobs. Allowing veterans to continue to serve their country and to bring highly skilled individuals with a broad range of experience into the Civil Service in an environment which recognises and values your previous service in the Armed Forces.
For further details about the initiative and eligibility requirements visit: Interview Scheme
Civil Service departments are expected to explore redeployment opportunities before making an individual redundant. The MoJ is committed as part of the Redeployment Interview Scheme to providing opportunities to those who are at risk of redundancy.
MoJ is able to offer an interview to eligible candidates who meet the minimum selection criteria except in a limited number of campaigns. Candidates will not be eligible for the Redeployment Interview Scheme if they are applying on promotion.
Civil Service Nationality Rules
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU Switzerland Norway Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- nationals of the EU Switzerland Norway Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
- Turkish nationals and certain family members of Turkish nationals who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
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A reserve list may be held for up to 12 months from which further appointments may be made for the same or similar roles.
- 2998 AUM Neurodiversity Support Manager JD (Job Description Attachment)
Essential Qualifications:
PGCE Cert Ed or Level 5 in Education and Training.
Level 4 Certificate in Supporting the learning of learners with
Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND)/Additional
Learning Needs (ALN).
Alternatively extensive experience working with people with
complex needs in a neurodiversity specialist role in a custodial
setting or other multi-disciplinary environment.
Desirable Qualifications:
Level 4 TAQA qualifications in the Internal Quality Assurance
of Assessment Processes or equivalent Level 7 Diploma in
Assessing and Teaching Learners with Dyslexia Specific
Learning Differences and Barriers to Literacy.
Use of Artificial Intelligence (Al)
Artificial Intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application however all examples and statements provided must be truthful factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others or generated by artificial intelligence as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary see ourcandidate guidancefor more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.
Required Experience:
Manager
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