Business Administrator - Psychology Services - Psychology Counter Terrorism Team - DoS (Ref: 21801)

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We are recruiting a Band 4 administrator for the Psychology Counter Terrorism Team, a national team that provides psychological services to support the delivery of Counter Terrorism strategy within HMPPS. The Psychology Counter Terrorism Team works closely with both the Joint Extremism Unit (JExU) and the Counter Terrorism Assessment and Rehabilitation Centre (CT-ARC).

JEXU has oversight of operational delivery against the Prevent and Pursue strands of CONTEST. Delivery is underpinned by a specialist CT case management process, which is delivered by multi-disciplinary teams and provides end-to-end management of this group. This is the mechanism through which an offender’s risk and rehabilitative pathways are assessed and monitored in relation to the concerns of engagement with an extremist group, cause and or ideology. The HMPPS teams work proactively at a local, regional and national level, across custody and community, with operational partners, including Police and security services, to case manage individuals, share information and intelligence and assist with active investigations. The regional teams include operational and probation colleagues.

The CT-ARC team consists of psychologists, specialist probation staff and quality assurance specialists who are responsible for the assessment and intervention products for the terrorist, terrorist connected and terrorist risk cohort. The CT-ARC will see an increased capacity for product development and innovation, informed by the evidence base, utilising the newly formed, dedicated CT-ARC research team.

There are several key elements to this role, based within the Psychology Counter Terrorism Team:

• . The post-holder will be actively involved in setting up, developing and maintaining systems to support this work. As such, the post holder is required to be IT proficient, with advanced skills in MS Office applications, especially Word ,Excel, and Power Bi.
• The post holder will act as a point of contact for the team, supporting and advising staff on correct adherence to policy and procedures. As such the post holder will also assist in developing and agreeing policies and processes, as well as creating new materials and channels to improve network-wide communication.
• The post-holder will be required to develop relationships with a range of internal and external stakeholders. In order to achieve this, there is a requirement to attend key meetings in the Petty France London office at least two days a week.
• The post-holder will be required to collate and manage data; gathering information and using systems to log/analyse to provide information to senior stakeholders.
• The post holder will need excellent organisation skills and an ability to prioritise and manage their own workload amongst competing demands.
• Due to the nature of this role and the information the post-holder will access, SC level vetting is required.

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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