Elements and Performance Criteria
- Assess needs of offenders
- Plan, monitor and review offender assessment procedures to ensure that the general and special needs of offenders are identified and reported.
- Ensure information exchanged between team members about the needs and services for offenders is comprehensive.
- Negotiate and manage resources suitable for meeting the general and special needs of offenders and correctional services.
- Recruit specialist support and resources through active networking with agencies and specialists.
- Assess the implications of offenders’ needs and the impact of the correctional environment on them.
- Maintain comprehensive offender records.
- Establish services to address the needs of the offender
- Identify the need for service development and confirm this with research, recommendations, strategic plans and consultation with staff and management.
- Investigate available resources and develop strategies to acquire additional and adequate resources according to the organisation’s objectives and priorities.
- Consult a range of internal and external agencies to ensure that the organisation’s interests are reflected in the planned design and delivery of the service.
- Identify tasks required to implement the plan, analyse these for skill and resource requirements and delegate to suitably skilled and experienced staff.
- Ensure that service reports, records and outcome details are documented and reported.
- Ensure the design and objectives of the services comply with all statutory and legislative requirements and accountability.
- Establish effective and constructive relationships with key people involved in the planning and delivery of services.
- Analyse routine reports and any changes to organisational policies or strategies.
- Authorise necessary adjustments to services based on analysis of reports.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of services
- Ensure that the costs and outcomes of the service are regularly monitored against agreed plan, resources and objectives.
- Ensure that feedback from service and organisational clients and key people is actively sought at regular intervals and used to inform the redesign of the service.
- Assess proposed changes through consultation with key people and data, and implement changes where required.
- Record information on relevant aspects of the service.
- Assess needs of offenders
- Plan, monitor and review offender assessment procedures to ensure that the general and special needs of offenders are identified and reported.
- Ensure information exchanged between team members about the needs and services for offenders is comprehensive.
- Negotiate and manage resources suitable for meeting the general and special needs of offenders and correctional services.
- Recruit specialist support and resources through active networking with agencies and specialists.
- Assess the implications of offenders’ needs and the impact of the correctional environment on them.
- Maintain comprehensive offender records.
- Establish services to address the needs of the offender
- Identify the need for service development and confirm this with research, recommendations, strategic plans and consultation with staff and management.
- Investigate available resources and develop strategies to acquire additional and adequate resources according to the organisation’s objectives and priorities.
- Consult a range of internal and external agencies to ensure that the organisation’s interests are reflected in the planned design and delivery of the service.
- Identify tasks required to implement the plan, analyse these for skill and resource requirements and delegate to suitably skilled and experienced staff.
- Ensure that service reports, records and outcome details are documented and reported.
- Ensure the design and objectives of the services comply with all statutory and legislative requirements and accountability.
- Establish effective and constructive relationships with key people involved in the planning and delivery of services.
- Analyse routine reports and any changes to organisational policies or strategies.
- Authorise necessary adjustments to services based on analysis of reports.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of services
- Ensure that the costs and outcomes of the service are regularly monitored against agreed plan, resources and objectives.
- Ensure that feedback from service and organisational clients and key people is actively sought at regular intervals and used to inform the redesign of the service.
- Assess proposed changes through consultation with key people and data, and implement changes where required.
- Record information on relevant aspects of the service.