We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Resettlement Case Manager to join our team at HMP Spring Hill. The successful candidate will effectively manage, tutor and support resettlement through the Thames Valley Community Rehabilitation Services for prisoners entering and leaving custody, while using motivational goal setting skills to support participation and services throughout the prison.

The Resettlement team provides, coordinates and allocates through the gate (TTG) sentence plans for prisoners who are entering or preparing for release into the community. We complete the online records associated with their sentence planning and manage a caseload of prisoners, tracking agreed milestones and planning interventions around employment, health, accommodation or education and support resettlement.

HMP Spring Hill is an Open Category D (resettlement) prison, housing approximately 320 male prisoners who are at the end of their custodial sentence and working towards resettlement.

As a successful candidate you will deliver, or train to deliver the following:

• Resettlement action planning using the online Basic Custody Screening Tool (BCST part 2) on entry and 12 weeks prior to release.
• Support, guidance and practical help across all mandated services with a focus on supporting advice on employment, education, health, housing, finance, benefit and debt.
• Rigorous track, review and facilitation of action plans for progression and resolving barriers on a prisoner’s entry to custody or preparing for release.
• Use motivational goal setting skills to support participation and mandated services.
• Demonstrate experience of successfully achieving project targets through maintaining accurate data & caseloads, delivering against deadlines
• Demonstrate excellent Microsoft Office skills and experience with databases.
• Possess professional written and verbal communication skills and an eye for detail.
• Demonstrate evidence of continuous personal/professional development and be willing to develop knowledge, qualifications and expertise around housing, benefit, debt and a range of mandated pathways.
• Show good communication and motivational skills across a broad range of resource types, skills and backgrounds.
• Show a proactive resolution of risks and issues, and demonstrate flexibility and a ‘can do’ attitude.
• Hold a full driving licence as travel may be required between Thames Valley prisons.
• Demonstrate commitment to a high professional and personal standard of work and conduct
• Have a commitment to equality of opportunity and widening access to education and employment for all.
• Have professional Skills for Life (literacy, numeracy and language) and be willing to develop these further.

Location: HMP Spring Hill

Hours: 33 hours per week, 52 weeks per year

Salary: £18,000 - £24,000 per annum, pro rata

Closing Date: Wednesday 10 th May

More about the rewards

As well as having 25 flexible days’ holiday per year (pro rata) and bank holidays. If you prefer a more environmentally friendly approach to travel we offer a cycle to work scheme. As part of Milton Keynes College you are entitled to apply for an NUS student discount card with offers in plenty of local restaurants and high street shops. Child care vouchers are available and of course the option of being part of our local government pension with employer contributions of 11.5%. For more about our benefits please visit the MK College website.

More about the College

Milton Keynes College deliver an exciting and varied curriculum in 28 of Her Majesty’s Prisons and Young Offenders Institutes. We also have a successful Employment Academy model which works with employers and stakeholders to enhance our learners’ chances of re-entering society successfully, to find employment upon release and to live fulfilling lives. The curriculum we offer is designed taking into account both the needs of the learner, external stakeholders and the local employment needs. We are proud of supporting our learners’ successfully through education and ‘Through the Gate’.