Custody Case Manager (Prison Offender Manager)

At Catch22, we are proud of our reputation as a modern and progressive employer. Our 1,300 colleagues and 300 volunteers work at every stage of the social welfare cycle, supporting over 60,000 individuals from cradle to career.

In Social Justice, we work with young people and adults in custody and in the community, providing a range of services including offender management and resettlement, mentoring, veterans in custody, victim services, gangs work and youth justice. We believe that with effective support mechanisms and the correct interventions, we can change service user’s ideology, helping them desist from crime and reach their true potential.

In HMP Thameside, Catch22 provides Offender Management servicesand support for adult male prisoners from entry to prison right through to their transition back into community life.

You can find further information on the OMU service through ourwebsite.

This is a full-time prison/office based role. There is the option for compressed hours on a 4 day week, or 9 day fortnight under the flexible working policy. This is not a hybrid/remote role.

An exciting opportunity to work for the Offender Management unit (OMU) at HMP Thameside, the only OMU in the country delivered by a third sector organisation since its opening in 2012. Following a recent Prison inspection, Charlie Taylor (HM Chief Inspector of Prisons) described this service to be “the best provision (he) had seen during the last year”.

We are seeking a driven individual who strives for best practice and is passionate in making a difference to people’s lives. In this role you will have the opportunity to be part of a high performing Offender Management Service with its function to identify, assess, address, and reduce risks of sentenced prisoners, whilst also motivating them to engage positively within custodial regime.

Want to be part of this amazing team? Will you be committed to supporting and empowering service users to reintegrate into the community? If yes, we would like to hear from you.

Please click here to view the full Job Description.

Knowledge and skills:

• Understanding or awareness of the factors that contribute to offending behaviour.
• Knowledge of rehabilitation.
• Understanding of professional boundaries when working with vulnerable people.

Essential criteria:

• Ability to proactively manage a caseload and work collaboratively with other agencies.
• Ability to work well in high pressured environments and be resilient to change.
• Attention to detail particularly relating to recording of work and meeting of deadlines.
• Willingness to undertake additional training and development

When applying please be cautious over the answers you provide. If you select “NO” to the screening question regarding Right to Work in the UK, your application will automatically be closed.

Contract: Permanent

Hours & work pattern: Full time, 38 hours per week.

Salary: £33,679.36

The salary shown reflects the band for this role, with the final offer taking account of experience and relevant skills.

Career Family & Scale: Operations – Practitioner,  London

Location: HM Prison Thameside, Griffin Manor Way, London SE28 0FJ

Unless otherwise stated, interviews will be arranged as suitable candidates are identified, so early application is strongly advised. Where a deadline is advertised, Catch22 reserves the right to withdraw the post from advertisement without notice.

We aim to review applications as quickly as possible. However, due to the volume ofinterest we receive, we may not be able to contact all applicants individually. If you have not heard from us within two weeks of the closing date, please assume that your application has not been successful this time.

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