Prison Offender Manager - HMP Bronzefield

Prison Offender Manager – HMP & YOI Bronzefield

Ashford, Middlesex | 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday
£37,961.02 per annum, including £3,724.29 London Weighting
Base salary £34,236.73 per annum

Put your interest in criminology and rehabilitation to work at HMP Bronzefield.

What contributes to offending, and what helps someone move away from it? If those are questions you’ve explored through criminology, or through work supporting people to make changes in their lives, we’d like to hear from you.

As a Prison Offender Manager in the Integrated Offender Management Unit at HMP & YOI Bronzefield, you’ll work directly with women in custody. You’ll get to know the people on your caseload, understand what has contributed to their offending and help them take practical steps towards a safer return to the community. That could mean helping someone engage with an intervention, working with partners to address a housing barrier or reviewing a sentence plan as someone’s circumstances change.

It’s a role for someone who genuinely cares about rehabilitation and understands the responsibility that comes with assessing risk, making sound decisions and protecting the public.

About HMP Bronzefield

HMP Bronzefield is a women’s prison in Ashford, Middlesex. We support women on remand and serving a range of sentence lengths, including young adults and mothers with babies. You’ll work with colleagues across the prison and with community partners to help women access support that reflects their individual circumstances and prepares them for life after custody.

What you’ll do

You’ll manage a caseload of around 40–60 women, building professional relationships, reviewing progress and supporting each person to work towards the goals in their sentence plan.

• Assess risk and plan next steps. Complete Offender Assessment System (OASys) assessments, sentence plans and other risk assessments. Use evidence to identify factors linked to offending, assess the risk of harm and inform decisions about how to manage it.
• Support rehabilitation and resettlement. Help women engage with relevant interventions and address practical barriers such as housing, employment and education.
• Contribute to public protection. Prepare reports and contribute to parole processes, Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA), Home Detention Curfew (HDC) and Release on Temporary Licence (ROTL).
• Work with other services. Coordinate support with probation, prison teams, voluntary organisations and community partners so it can continue as women prepare for release.
• Screen new arrivals and keep accurate records. Complete Part 1 of the Basic Custody Screening Tool (BCST) and maintain timely case notes, assessments and reports.

What we’re looking for

Your interest in rehabilitation might come from studying criminology, criminal justice or a related subject, or from paid or voluntary work where you’ve helped people address complex needs or barriers to change. That could include experience in probation, custody, resettlement, youth justice, housing or homelessness, substance misuse services, or mentoring.

We welcome applications from criminology graduates and people bringing relevant experience from other settings. A relevant degree or vocational qualification is desirable, and experience in custody, probation, offender management or risk assessment would be an advantage.

We’re looking for someone who can:

• Explain what draws them to rehabilitation and what they’ve learned about the factors that contribute to offending and reoffending.
• Build trust with women whose experiences and needs may vary widely, while maintaining clear professional boundaries.
• Weigh up information from different sources, identify risks and explain the reasoning behind their decisions.
• Write clear, evidence-based reports and communicate confidently with residents, colleagues and partner agencies.
• Stay calm and professional when conversations or behaviour become challenging.
• Manage a busy caseload, prioritise competing demands and follow through on agreed actions.

What we offer

You’ll join a team that works together to support women through their sentences and prepare them for release. You’ll also have access to 20+ Sodexo benefits, including a retirement plan, online discounts across more than 1,900 brands, gym discounts and a confidential 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme. See the attached benefits information for more details.

When you apply, tell us what draws you to rehabilitation and how your studies, work or volunteering have prepared you to support women in custody. We’d like to hear what you learned from a specific example and how you’d bring that understanding to the role at HMP Bronzefield.