Description
The National Crime in Prison Team is dedicated to improving justice outcomes for crimes committed within the prison estate. This Area Crime in Prison Coordinator (CiPCo) position provides an opportunity to support prisons through an area-specific, mobile, peripatetic model, delivering targeted support across Crime in Prison specific areas across the estate.
The role is specifically designed to strengthen capability and build resilience within establishments by providing temporary, needs-led support to either single prisons and/or clusters of prisons. Unlike permanent establishment-based CiPCo roles, post holders will be deployed to specific establishments or clusters for defined periods, supporting the development of sustainable processes, improving adherence to the Crime in Prison Referral Agreement (CiPRA), and embedding effective crime management practices.
The post holder will be line managed by the Area Crime Manager (Band 5) to provide specialist support to establishments, strengthening crime management processes, improving evidence handling, and promoting effective partnership working with criminal justice agencies.
The CiPCo role plays a key role in coordinating crime-related activity within prisons, ensuring consistent application of policy, supporting the Crime in Prison Referral Agreement (CiPRA), and improving outcomes for victims and witnesses of crime.
Responsibilities include:
- Providing targeted support to prisons across the estate
- Supporting the development of sustainable processes
- Improving adherence to the Crime in Prison Referral Agreement (CiPRA)
- Embedding effective crime management practices
- Coordinating crime-related activity within prisons
- Ensuring consistent application of policy
- Improving outcomes for victims and witnesses of crime
The role will cover the following establishments:
- HMP Pentonville
- HMP Wormwood Scrubs
- HMP Isis
- HMP Downview
- HMP Brixton
- HMP Wandsworth
- HMP Belmarsh
- HMP Highdown
- HMP Feltham
- HMP Thameside
The base location will be the site in the region (the exception being contracted prisons) nearest to the successful candidate's home address and can be changed as necessary.
The Area CIPCO role is a regionally mobile position, with deployment required across the entire Area Executive Director (AED) region. Mobility is a contractual requirement of the role, and there will be planned rotation between establishments within the region as a standard feature of the post.
This is a non-operational role but may require prisoner contact.
Benefits: Alongside your salary of £37,872, HM Prison & Probation Service contributes £10,971 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
- 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 employer contribution of 28.97%
- Annual Leave
- Public Holidays
- Season Ticket Advance