Milton Keynes College currently have an opportunity for a Resettlement Case Manager to join the department that delivers Through the Gate Service and OLASS prison education in custody across the region. The team provides, coordinates and allocates through the gate (TTG) sentence plans for prisoners who are entering or preparing for release into the community. The department works with the Thames Valley Community Rehabilitation Company to help prisoners on entry and pre-release. 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 Bullingdon is a complex prison that has a number of functions. It is categorised as a local category B prison which a category C resettlement function, serving the courts of Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Hampshire, and Wiltshire. HMP Bullingdon has the capacity to hold 1114 offenders all serving a range of sentences from remand to life.

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 Bullingdon

Hours: 37 hours per week, (6 months cover)

Salary: £18,000 - £24,000 per annum

Closing Date: 3rd April 2017

More about the rewards

As well as having 25 flexible days’ holiday per year (pro rata) and bank holidays. We offer a car allowance scheme “Just add fuel”, but if you prefer a more environmentally friendly approach to travel we also 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 is a leading Further Education College providing a comprehensive range of vocational, academic, professional and higher education courses. The College also delivers the Offender Learning and Skills Service (OLASS) Phase 4 contracts for East Midlands, West Midlands and South Central, providing education to 28 prisons across these 3 regions.