Partnership and Integration Lead - Electronic Monitoring Lead

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Electronic Monitoring (EM) is an effective tool for managing people on probation, helping to protect the public, prevent victims and reduce reoffending.

The EM caseload is growing, and there are ambitious plans to double that caseload to almost 26,000 by 2025 through a commitment to spend an additional £183 million over the next three years.

Probation play a critical role in realising the value that EM can offer to those being monitored and to victims. We are therefore putting in place national and regional governance structures to embed the use of EM, drive best practice and improve EM services.

Key to this will be the creation of a new non-operational band 5 position – the EM Integration Lead - within each region. Responsibilities include:

Raising awareness and understanding of EM in their region, including delivering trainingProviding management oversight of EM performance dataIdentifying and proposing areas for improvementDelivering against the HMIP inspectorate response action plan and OSAG and any other inspectionsBuild and maintain an effective relationship with Electronic Monitoring Services (EMS)Liaising with Prison Group Directors for HDC dataEngagement with the Bail Accommodation and Advice Service (BASS) when EM is a requirementLeading on the introduction of new EM initiatives in their regionActing as a subject matter expert for their region, covering the full use of EM across its use in sentencing and release from custodyRepresenting their region in National Governance meetings and reporting to their local regional probation director on regional progressProviding highlight reports from their region to the national teams to track progress

The EM integration lead will report into the regional IOM and EM Strategic Lead, who will have overall responsibility for driving performance improvement, championing the use of EM and influencing national strategy.

Overview of the job

The Partnership & Stakeholder Lead is responsible for the development of the systems capability to build senior stakeholder relationships between the NPS, CRCs and other partnerships.

NPS has a diverse range of programme and policy areas, most of which are delivered with other partners – this diversity can make it challenging for us to co-ordinate our activities and to avoid confusion. The job holder will not ‘control’ NPS partnership and stakeholder activities, but will act as adviser to Deputy Directors and their Divisions, helping them to target their input and find the best routes through.

The role is also responsible for delivering business change partner support to NPS Divisions and Deputy Directors at a regional level as directed by the System Integration Senior Manager

Summary

The System Integration team will be responsible for ensuring the NPS works as effectively as possible with CRCs and other delivery partners. The roles will include identifying and coordinating delivery to improve effectiveness of operations. In Wales these roles will go further than Probation – they will also include Prison / Probation integration.

Responsibilities, Activities & Duties

The job holder will be required to carry out the following responsibilities, activities and duties:

Partnerships & stakeholder development

Provide key strategic insight, to enable ministerial briefing, on effecting change and engaging key stakeholdersLead NPS’ work on developing a professional approach to managing networks and key stakeholders in order to provide a key delivery mechanism for the NPS and its relationships with PartnersTake an authorship and commissioning role to establishing new and effective partnerships for the NPSDevelop a relationship management approach for the NPS, in line with HMPPS approachesExperiment with new relationship management ideas and processes across the NPSCoordinate other Divisions’ developments related to relationship managementCo-ordinate NPS’ input into cross-Whitehall processes and systems.

Implementing associated change management

Plan and design the change required to make partnerships with delivery partners as effective as possibleCoordinate operational input to HQ projects to improve the interfaces between stakeholders and partners

Use communication effectively

Providing information, feedback and adviceInfluencing and persuadingUsing appropriate skills, styles and approaches

Enhance own performance

Manage own resources and professional development

Use information to take critical decisions

Liaise with staff to receive, collate and analyse information, developing systems and compiling reports as necessaryDevelop and utilise data to identify trends and take appropriate action to maintain and enhance performancePlan, implement and manage systems for the exchange of sensitive information, data and intelligence

Manage Diversity and Quality

Contribute to a culture and systems that promote equality and value diversityImplement the diversity policies of the service and collaborate effectively with the Equalities and Diversity Unit

The duties/responsibilities listed above describe the post as it is at present and is not intended to be exhaustive. The job holder is expected to accept reasonable alternations and additional tasks of a similar level that may be necessary. Significant adjustments may require re-examination under the Job Evaluation scheme and shall be discussed in the first instance with the Job Holder.

Behaviours

Managing a Quality ServiceWorking TogetherChanging and ImprovingSeeing the Bigger PictureLeadershipCommunicating and Influencing

Essential Experience

Demonstrate experience of stakeholder management,Demonstrate experience of implementing successful change projects,Operational experience of working in a Probation setting

Technical requirements

NVQ Level 4 or equivalent in a relevant subject (or appropriate practical experience) Microsoft: Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint