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London, United Kingdom

• Headhunted to oversee the implementation of a new Education Training and Employment (ETE) contract for London Probation Service via Ministry of Justice. • Responsible for the performance of a multi function hybrid team of 6 Team Leaders and their teams of advisors (25)• Teams responsible for supporting over 2000 individuals (men) on probtation within a community setting.• Leading a team of managers and engagement officers to ensure growth and other business opportunities are realised. • Developing, mentoring, and coaching the team to ensure outcomes, team targets and individual goals are met.• Site Manager responsible for health and safety of a central office for use by colleagues and hosting events for participants on the ETE programme. • Established community hub to serve pan London male clients with complex needs in order to improve their access to employment and training opportunities, facilitate regular events and foster new partnerships • Chairing a service user led forum to encourage service innovation and improvement within the contract• Developing and maintain key stakeholder relationships in London to provide opportunities for People on Probation to gain training and work experience. • Driving performance and quality across all aspects of service delivery in ETE London including successfully preparing for audits to ensure that revenue and performance targets are met.

• Reviewing high profile cases and undertaking complaint investigations.• Undertaking disciplinary and complex grievance investigations including preparing for employment tribunal.• Delivering briefings to front line staff.

• Managed a team of 6 Senior Probation Officers based in the Serious Further Offences (SFOs) and Complaints Team and ensured the production of high-quality reports.• Identified areas for training via a training needs analysis and delivered sessions to team members to boost report writing quality• Driver of continous improvement in practice by disseminating learning from SFOs including safeguarding procedures, information sharing, multi-agency working and risk management plans.• Responsive to driving quality across the region and worked closely alongside the Performance and Quality team to analyse themes in SFOs and complaints.

Hmp Wandsworth

• Managed a team of Probation Practitioners who supervised a varied caseload including indeterminate, TACT and MAPPA level 2 and 3 prisoners. Represented the prison at MAPPA Level 3 meetings. • Responsible for risk, chaired monthly interdepartmental risk management meetings and liaised with the Offender Management Unit to ensure parole timeliness was adhered to. • Liaised with the Public Protection Officer and Children’s Social Care to make defensible decisions about prisoner contact with children.

Essex

• Managed probation practitioners across two offices in Thurrock and Basildon at a time of significant change in the organisation. Lead areas for responsibility including female service users, Prevent and safeguarding. • Developed effective relationship with partners at MARAC, safeguarding children and community safety partnerships.

Essex

Ensuring public protection by effective risk assessment and management of high risk offenders.

Essex

Managed a research database. Provided guidance to research students wishing to undertake research in the Trust. Participated in the research governance group.

Bristol And Cardiff

Project management of an MRI study at CUBRIC in Cardiff University. Involved liaison with the collaborators in Toronto, Canada.

Bristol, United Kingdom

Assessment and delivery of drug treatment and support to young people. Presentation to schools to raise awareness of substance misuse.

Swindon, United Kingdom

Proactive outreach to provide harm reduction advice to Class A substance users.

Bristol, United Kingdom

Completion of degree and vocational qualification in order to become a Probation Officer.

Msc, Research Methods In Psychology, Merit

Bsc Hons Psychology, Psychology, 2.1