About the job

Job summary

You will have responsibility for leading a team of circa. 350 staff, delivering the following national services that provide critical support for prison and probation operations:

• Estates ‘intelligent Client Function’ for prisons and probation.
• Health, Safety and Fire Safety guidance, advice, and assurance.
• Prison and Approved Premises Safety guidance and initiatives to reduce self-harm, suicide, and violence in prisons and under probation supervision following release.
• Litigation management for prisons and probation.

This is a Nationally based role

Job description

For full details about the Role, Key Responsibilities and Person Specification, please download and review the Candidate Information pack

Person specification

Your key accountabilities in this role will be to:

• Provide strategic advice to CEO and COO on the management of HMPPS operational estate. In addition, providing the same advice to Area Executive Directors on the areas which they are responsible.
• Commissioning annual capital maintenance programmes for prison, approved premises and contact centres (£165m), plus £305m facilities management contracts.
• Holding MoJ Property Directorate to account for delivery of capital maintenance programme and facilities management services.
• Lead and manage the Health, Safety and Fire Safety teams’ work across the estate.
• Set and maintain the direction of evidence-based priorities to reduce self-harm, suicide and violence in prisons and for offenders under probation supervision, in line with the Agency’s strategic priorities.
• Overall lead for HMPPS litigation management.

Additional Responsibilities

• Work closely with public health bodies, enforcing authorities and other government departments to ensure that HMPPS has effective frameworks in place for managing risks to protect service users, staff and visitors.
• Provision of bespoke, high-quality guidance, advice and assurance, both strategically for Agency as a while and locally in support of prisons and probation operations.
• Accountable for proper management of the budgets sub-delegated to MoJ Property.

We encourage applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that represents the wider society that we serve. We pride ourselves on being an employer of choice. We champion diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued and a sense of belonging. To find out more about how we do this visit: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice/about/equality-and-diversity.

Additional Information 

Please view our candidate information pack for full details about the role, key responsibilities person specification, and the criteria you will be assessed against throughout the recruitment process. If you are interested in this exciting opportunity, and feel that you meet the criteria, we would welcome your application.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £75,000, HM Prison & Probation Service contributes £20,925 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.For full details of the Selection Process and Recruitment Timeline, please view the Candidate Information pack.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window). People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

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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Working for the Civil Service

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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.