NE and Yorks and Humber Police Advisor – Operational Partnership Team (Ref: 23721)

This position is based Nationally

HMPPS Grade: Band 8

Overview of the job

The role will be based in the NE and Yorks and Humber region.

This is a manager job in HMPPS HQ responsible for providing advice to a wide range of prison, HMPPS, Law Enforcement Agency (LEA) and Police personnel on policing issues in prisons; in particular on Category A prisoners, High Security Estate issues, threats to life in prisons and criminal gang issues. These are highly sensitive areas where the appropriate and timely sharing of intelligence is critical for the safe management of high risk prisoners and establishments.

Providing Police Adviser attendance in HMPPS Gold Command suite to manage major incidents in prisons.

Reports to the Head of the Operational Partnership Team within the Intelligence Unit of the HMPPS Security Group.

Summary

Providing advice to HMPPS, Her Majesty’s Prison Service (HMPS) Police and other LEAs, professionalising and developing the role of prison intelligence officer, Single Point Of Contact (SPOC) for intelligence exchange with Category A Section and Police/LEAs and panel member for monthly Category A prisoner reviews, SPOC for threats to life in prisons, managing Operational Guidance Documents (OGD) on Threats to Life, Gangs in Prison and Management of Law Enforcement Agency Intelligence in relation to the High Security estate, training, advising and regulating LEA operations in prisons, regional oversight of two prison areas and the High Security Estate and management/supervision of staff.

Office within region to be discussed, extensive travel throughout region with frequent national travel.

Behaviours

We’ll assess you against these Behaviours during the selection process:

• Making Effective Decisions (Lead) - Application and Interview
• Communicating and Influencing - Application and Interview
• Managing a Quality Service - Application and Interview
• Working Together - Application and Interview
• Delivering at Pace - Interview Only

Mandatory Requirement: Current or previous experience as a serving Police Officer in England and Wales.

Post holder must be vetted to SC level.

Mandatory Qualification.

Current or previous experience as a serving Police Officer in England and Wales.

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

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.

https://justicejobs.tal.net/vx/candidate/cms/About%20the%20MOJ

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.