Greater Manchester Public Protection - Greater Manchester Victims Contact Scheme - Senior Probation Officer - Permanent Position (Ref: 21375)

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Greater Manchester Probation, Public Protection Function, are recruiting an SPO to co-lead the GM Probation Victims team. This is a permanent role, and the successful candidate will work alongside two other SPOs to ensure the delivery of high-quality victim services across the GM region. The victims team work with victims of violent and sexual offences, keeping them informed at key stages of a perpetrator’s sentence, supporting and signposting to support services, as well as ensuring that victim needs are represented within sentence and risk management plans. The role requires excellent leadership and partnership skills to drive this critical area of probation work with both internal and external stakeholders. There is flexibility in regard to an Office Base location, which will be agreed on appointment. Travel to multiple sites across GM is a requirement.

Probation Officer Qualification

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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