Elements and Performance Criteria
- Assess offenders’ potential and needs
- Identify and assess offenders’ history, skills, resources and needs.
- Investigate risks and opportunities for development based on offender assessment.
- Encourage offenders to cooperate actively in the analysis of offending behaviour and directions for change.
- Encourage offenders to take responsibility for changing behaviour by establishing personal goals and determining strategies for achieving them.
- Acknowledge offenders’ preferences and decisions and respond to them positively.
- Use personal goal-setting techniques to identify and prioritise areas for action.
- Assess special needs and make referrals to suitable and available services.
- Record and refer offender information and decisions accurately.
- Identify issues arising from involuntary participation and resistance and discuss the consequences with the offenders.
- Develop plan to achieve offender goals
- Provide information on the services available to offenders and ensure it is clearly explained and designed to promote cooperation.
- Explore and clarify offenders’ expectations and address potential obstacles to encourage realistic goals.
- Explain and negotiate guidelines, conditions and requirements to gain agreement on conditions and compliance.
- Assess the need for specialised assistance or referral and negotiate these with offenders.
- Encourage offenders’ self-management and active involvement in decision making.
- Ensure that appropriate support is provided to offenders in developing plans.
- Implement offender management plans
- Identify, assess and allocate resources required by the plan.
- Review all aspects of the implementation of the plan and provide documents and information to all services involved in implementing the plan.
- Negotiate and conduct referrals with other services according to agreed criteria and protocol.
- Assist offenders in individual negotiations with other services to achieve agreed outcomes.
- Provide guidance and support when addressing obstacles to achieving goals.
- Explore possible consequences of behaviour and decisions with offenders and give encouragement for responsibility in decision making.
- Seek specialist advice when required and incorporate advice into the strategies to achieve goals.
- Monitor and review offender progress
- Review goals and objectives against achievements and measures of progress.
- Make adjustments to plans where required.
- Acknowledge offenders' achievements and provide encouragement and constructive feedback.
- Identify and allocate additional resources needed for further progress.
- Encourage offenders to engage in personal evaluation and reflection.
- Encourage and support offenders' plans.
- Establish and explain the boundaries of confidentiality to offenders.
- Confirm information obtained from the offender and record it comprehensively.
- Assess offenders’ potential and needs
- Identify and assess offenders’ history, skills, resources and needs.
- Investigate risks and opportunities for development based on offender assessment.
- Encourage offenders to cooperate actively in the analysis of offending behaviour and directions for change.
- Encourage offenders to take responsibility for changing behaviour by establishing personal goals and determining strategies for achieving them.
- Acknowledge offenders’ preferences and decisions and respond to them positively.
- Use personal goal-setting techniques to identify and prioritise areas for action.
- Assess special needs and make referrals to suitable and available services.
- Record and refer offender information and decisions accurately.
- Identify issues arising from involuntary participation and resistance and discuss the consequences with the offenders.
- Develop plan to achieve offender goals
- Provide information on the services available to offenders and ensure it is clearly explained and designed to promote cooperation.
- Explore and clarify offenders’ expectations and address potential obstacles to encourage realistic goals.
- Explain and negotiate guidelines, conditions and requirements to gain agreement on conditions and compliance.
- Assess the need for specialised assistance or referral and negotiate these with offenders.
- Encourage offenders’ self-management and active involvement in decision making.
- Ensure that appropriate support is provided to offenders in developing plans.
- Implement offender management plans
- Identify, assess and allocate resources required by the plan.
- Review all aspects of the implementation of the plan and provide documents and information to all services involved in implementing the plan.
- Negotiate and conduct referrals with other services according to agreed criteria and protocol.
- Assist offenders in individual negotiations with other services to achieve agreed outcomes.
- Provide guidance and support when addressing obstacles to achieving goals.
- Explore possible consequences of behaviour and decisions with offenders and give encouragement for responsibility in decision making.
- Seek specialist advice when required and incorporate advice into the strategies to achieve goals.
- Monitor and review offender progress
- Review goals and objectives against achievements and measures of progress.
- Make adjustments to plans where required.
- Acknowledge offenders' achievements and provide encouragement and constructive feedback.
- Identify and allocate additional resources needed for further progress.
- Encourage offenders to engage in personal evaluation and reflection.
- Encourage and support offenders' plans.
- Establish and explain the boundaries of confidentiality to offenders.
- Confirm information obtained from the offender and record it comprehensively.