Elements and Performance Criteria
- Process offenders' reception.
- Organise the reception of offenders according to the requirements of the sentence plan and organisation's procedures and guidelines.
- Use communication strategies to set up a calm, positive and relevant exchange of information and to relieve anxiety and distress.
- Confirm correct identification and accurate documentation of the offenders through effective two-way communication and from gathering information from a range of identified sources.
- Collect, check, confirm, complete and pass on relevant paperwork according to organisational procedures and reception duties.
- Maintain security and safety and implement emergency procedures where necessary.
- Determine the priority needs of offenders.
- Identify and respond to the routine immediate needs of offenders according to operating procedures and local guidelines.
- Provide offenders with information that is tailored to their capacity to absorb and designed to calm and reassure.
- Observe offenders and note any signs of distress, anxiety, aggression and apathy.
- Observe offenders and note signs of impairment of functioning.
- Accurately record behaviour or signs that arouse concern and report that information to the appropriate people.
- Initiate emergency alerts according to the degree of urgency and emergency procedures.
- Provide personal and basic requirements according to offenders' needs and the conditions of the service.
- Refer offenders to specialist services according to offender needs and set procedures.
- Administer offenders' property according to organisational procedures.