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Job Description
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Job Title: Regional Corruption Prevent Manager
Directorate: Security, Order and Counter Terrorism
Band: 5
Overview Of The Job
HMPPSs efforts to tackle corruption are integral to delivering safe and secure prisons and probation. HMPPS has worked with MoJ to identify that a new approach is needed to ensure we remain resilient to this key operational threat.
HMPPS has developed a future strategy for tackling corruption in HMPPS based on four key objectives:
- Protect against corruption by building an open and resilient organisation.
- Prevent people from engaging in corruption, strengthen professional integrity.
- Pursue and punish those who are corrupt.
- Prepare for corruption, reducing its impacts on our teams.
Summary
The role sits in the newly restructured Counter Corruption Unit Prevent Team. Its objectives are to support prisons and probation to manage corruption threats, in particular supporting establishment prevent corruption within HMPPS.
The regional CCU will support prisons and probation units to effectively prevent corruption. The level of service is to be assessed and prioritised according to policy and guidance, but may include providing prisons and probation with enhanced analytical support, expert advice and logistical and coordination support. The team will also be responsible for supporting prisons and probation units on the effective management of known corruptor prisoners in custody and under supervision in the community to prevent them corrupting staff.
In line with HMPPS policy, the post holder will be responsible for supporting the relevant Regional Corruption Prevent Lead to deliver a high-quality counter- corruption service to prisons and probation in their SOCT region. The Regional Prevent Manager will also be responsible for working in partnership with other regional teams in the Security, Order and Counter Terrorism (SOCT) Directorate, HR services and law enforcement.
The job holder will report directly to the Regional Corruption Prevent Lead, who in turn reports to the Head of the Prevent who is line managed by the Head of the Counter Corruption Unit.
The post holder will have line management responsibility for a Corruption Prevent Officer.
This is a regional job and will be based in a regional SOCT hub. Frequent travel to prison and probation establishments, regional offices and law enforcement partners offices will be required. Occasional travel outside the region (e.g. to London) will be required.
Responsibilities, Activities And Duties
The job holder will be required to carry out the following responsibilities, activities and duties:
- Working with the national CCU team to develop a detailed and expert understanding of the corruption evidence based on the nature of the threat, (e.g. drivers of corruption, prevalence, escalation, risk/impact, effective interventions) and using this as a basis for all practice.
- Having a strong understanding of the operational context in prisons and probation, including pressures, priorities, risks and opportunities to better tackle corruption.
- Having a strong understanding of the relevant legal and policy frameworks relating to corruption, security and HR, and making sure these are followed when providing services to prisons and probation, and that these are shared with and championed when working with delivery partners.
- On the direction of the Regional Prevent Lead, the post holder will support prisons and probation in assessing and understanding their risks to corruption and develop mitigation strategies; work with prisons and probation to understand capability gaps and signpost wider capability opportunities, best practice and guidance, and deliver briefing and awareness/training sessions; and support research to inform our evidence base on corruption, including interviewing former staff who have been convicted of corruption related offences, or other information to support assessing performance.
- In line with policy and guidance, the post holder will support prisons and probation to prevent corruption in HMPPS by, leading on the management of cases and working collaboratively with Pursue for end-to-end management and coordination of cases that escalate.
- Provide recommended practice for supporting staff to management.
- Develop and implement national strategy to manage the corruption threat across HMPPS. Working in partnership with establishments and law enforcement agencies to ensure corruptors are managed appropriately.
- Develop and maintain a wider network of stakeholders, including in other SOCT regional teams (e.g. NIU, SOCU, JEXU), law enforcement (local forces and ROCUs), contract managers and contracted providers.
- Supporting the Regional Prevent Lead to understand and manage the individual threat of corruption in each prison and probation office in the region ensuring these establishments are supported based on their individual need.
- Line management of the RCPO.
Person specification
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Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Changing and Improving
- Communicating and Influencing
- Making Effective Decisions
- Managing a Quality Service
- Access to learning and development
- A working environment that supports a range of flexible working options to enhance your work life balance
- A working culture which encourages inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
- Annual Leave
- Public Holidays
- Season Ticket Advance
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Selection process details
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Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
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) .
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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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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.
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Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
- Name : SSCL Recruitment Enquiries Team
- Email : Moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@gov.sscl.com
- Telephone : 0845 241 5358
- Email : Moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@gov.sscl.com
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