Job Description

Red Snapper Recruitment are recruiting on behalf of our client for a Violence Reduction Service Manager, based in HMPYOI Feltham with travel to London once a month.

We are looking for a reliable, organised, resilient and energetic manager to join our committed, specialist team. The successful applicant will have over three years’ experience of facilitating interventions in prisons or a related area. They will lead and support the delivery of group and one-to-one structured behavioural change interventions to men aged 18 to 30 years old, serving sentences at HMPYOI Feltham, who present with a risk of violent re-offending. In addition, they will provide reports to funders and the company’s senior leadership team on the effectiveness and impact of interventions delivered. We particularly welcome applications from people from Global Majority ethnicities, with lived experience of the criminal justice system, and with current enhanced prison security vetting from one or two prisons. The successful applicant will empower and support our Psychotherapist to engage participants in interventions using verbal and non-verbal, creative techniques such as movement, visual arts, creative writing and drama. They will build excellent working relationships with participants and other teams in the prison, showing a high level of professionalism along with the ability to multitask, overcome challenges and plan ahead. With knowledge and experience of delivering trauma informed, psycho-educational, strengths-based approaches, the successful applicant will ensure risk and safeguarding issues are dealt with appropriately. They will proactively facilitate regular reflective practice and line management sessions, as well as engaging consistently in their own clinical supervision and line management.

This is a full-time 35 hrs / week (Mon - Fri), 12 months FTC (with potential to be extended), offering a salary between £41,800 per annuum based on experience. Travel will be required.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

* Build excellent working relationships and communicate effectively with programme participants, other members of the team, and with members of prison and probation teams.

* Actively participate in internal and external meetings e.g. team meetings, line management meetings, clinical supervision meetings, programme reviews with participants, safer custody, reducing re-offending meetings, including leading meetings when appropriate.

* Develop resources and materials to promote and publicise the behavioural change interventions, to ensure that the interventions are accessible to men who are at risk of violent re-offending.

* Publicise the behavioural change programme and its potential benefits, to men serving sentences in Feltham, as well as to prison staff.

* Empower and support the behavioural change psychotherapist to facilitate semi-structured group and one-to-one behavioural change interventions over 14 weeks, for men who present with a risk of violent re-offending.

* Ensure that interventions are targeted towards enabling men to improve their wellbeing and tackle issues related to violent behaviour e.g. relationship problems, gang affiliation, substance misuse issues, adverse childhood experiences and racial trauma.

* Analyse complex, sensitive and potentially disturbing information from prison databases to undertake dynamic risk and needs assessments, on a case-by-case basis.

* Champion and adhere to company Code of Conduct, Code of Ethics and all company policies and procedures, including those on Safeguarding, Anti – Corruption, Anti – Bribery, Complaints and Comments, Confidentiality and Single Equality.

* Ensure that detailed, accurate and high-quality records of interventions are maintained, and that risk and safeguarding information is appropriately shared disclosed to other agencies, in accordance with Belong guidelines and standards.

* Collect, collate and analyse information on the effectiveness and impact of interventions

* Undertake any other duties as may be appropriate to the level and nature of the post

Person Specification

* Knowledge and understanding of psychological principles, trauma informed approaches and psychotherapeutic interventions.

* Understanding of the intersecting disadvantages that may be faced by men serving prison sentences, such as substance misuse problems, trauma histories, mental health diagnoses, poor literacy and numeracy, gang affiliation.

* Strong awareness of appropriate boundaries to be maintained and of personal safety considerations whilst working in prisons.

* A strong understanding of the principles of confidentiality and of instances when this should be breached.

* Ability to line manage and support team members in a collaborative and empowering manner, enabling them to achieve programme objectives and effectively deliver interventions.

* Ability to develop excellent working relationships with other professionals and with men serving prison sentences who present with risks of violent re-offending.

* Excellent organisational, team working, verbal and written communication skills.

Essential Qualifications and Experience

* Minimum one years’ experience of line managing, training and/or supporting colleagues.

* At least three years’ experience of delivering rehabilitative interventions in prisons or a related area.

* Experience of using Microsoft Office packages including Word, Excel, PowerPoint.

* Experience of liaising confidently and professionally with a range of stakeholders at different levels of seniority and backgrounds.

* Ability to consider and respond to participants psychological, non-verbal and symbolic expression.

* Understanding of the specific issues faced by people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Backgrounds in contact with the criminal justice system.

* Ability to be attune to and process transference and counter-transference feelings and work with emotional projections from individuals.

* Knowledge and experience of using design and publicity software such as Canva, MailChimp.

* Creative skills in assisting with the design of newsletters and social media posts.

If you would like to be considered for this position and have the relevant experience, then please email your CV to (email address removed)

Alternatively, if this role is not for you but you do know somebody who would be interested please refer them. We have a referral bonus scheme and will pay £75, in retail vouchers of your choice, for referrals who are not already known to us.

Due to the high volume of applications received, if you do not hear from us within 7 working days, I am afraid your application has been unsuccessful.

We are a dedicated recruitment company providing top quality professionals and services to Housing Providers across the UK.

Red Snapper Recruitment is a member of the Red Snapper Group