About the job

Job summary

These positions can be based at the following locations: 

Nationally

10 South Colonnade London, E14 4PU

Job description

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.

About the Parole Board:

The Parole Board is an independent court-like body that carries out risk assessments on prisoners to determine whether they can be safely released into the community We do that with great care and public safety is our number one priority.  

All Parole Board decisions are solely focused on whether a prisoner would represent a significant risk to the public after release.  Not all decisions Members make are popular, but they make these decisions fairly and objectively.

The Board is made up of about 190 members of secretariat staff based in our London Head Office and approximately 280 Members who make decisions on risk and hold hearings at prisons around the country.  

The Parole Board is an executive non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Ministry of Justice. Staff who work for the Parole Board Secretariat are Public Servants and not Civil Servants.

About the role:

An exciting opportunity has opened to be part of the Reconsideration Team within the Legal Hub at the Parole Board. We are a team with an important role to play in delivering the Transparency agenda to which the Parole Board has committed which includes the production and delivery of Reconsideration Decisions.

This is a fast-paced and interesting role, with responsibility for reconsideration of our decisions. This means the team carries an important responsibility to be accurate and sensitive in the way it produces reconsideration decisions as well as their supporting communication.

This is an evolving area of work and requires individuals to work effectively within the organisation, and with stakeholders, to ensure this process is workable and fully compliant with the law.

Person specification:

You will be required to manage the functional element of the reconsideration process, communicating effectively with the Team Leader and stakeholders and work well within a team. You will need to analyse complex information and make decisions based upon this, following a clear legal framework. Escalation processes will need to be followed precisely, and anomalies highlighted immediately.

It will be imperative that you are able to communicate effectively with, a diverse range of individuals, at varying grades, with competing demands for how this process functions and produces.

Main Duties:

• To effectively case manage Parole Board reconsideration applications as allocated by Team Leader;
• Monitor and input into the Parole Board case management systems;
• Advise stakeholders of reconsideration process and criteria, by responding to queries as allocated by Team Leader;
• Send correspondence to necessary parties;
• Ensure all reconsideration decisions are provided in line with policy and guidance and to agreed timescales and quality standards.

General:

• Assist Team Leader and/or Team Manager;
• Other tasks appropriate to the role as assigned by Team Leader.
• Attend national and regional meetings and events which may require occasional travel and overnight stays.

Experience required for the post:

• Experience in using Microsoft programmes
• Ability to work well within a team
• Adaptable to change
• Ability to follow processes, policies and guidelines
• Be detail-focused and accurate
• Accurate email communication and data entry skills (e.g. in Excel)
• Experience in relaying complex information in a simple, digestible format at all levels – i.e. in order for stakeholders or service users to be able to easily understand

Behaviours:

We will assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Delivering at Pace
• Making Effective Decisions
• Communicating and Influencing
• Changing and Improving

This vacancy is using Success Profiles, and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Strengths. At the sift stage you will be assessed against Behaviours and Experience.

Should a large number of applications be received, the initial sift may be conducted using a lead behaviour. This will be the behaviour which is listed first in the job advert.

Security:

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is Basic Check.

Any persons successful in gaining an interview will need to bring in photographic ID, and two items which prove address dated within the last 3 months. Failure to do this may result in the successful applicants offer being withdrawn.

If you are part of the Civil Service and are applying for a job in a non-departmental public body (NDPB) (or vice versa) by moving jobs this will involve a change of employer and you may break the statutory rules on continuity of employment.

Person specification

Please refer to Job Description

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £23,735, Parole Board contributes £6,432 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, Strengths and Experience.https://justicejobs.tal.net/vx/candidate/cms/About%20the%20MOJ

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

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. 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

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets 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 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.