Job Description
Prison Based Social Worker
HMP Edinburgh
Salary: £39,129-£46,023
Hours: 36 per week
Social work staff are responsible for the effective application of these procedures. The Practice Team Manager is responsible for ensuring compliance with this procedure. The maintenance of this procedure is the responsibility of the Service Manager, Criminal Justice.
Statutory Tasks on Admission
The social worker will interview all prisoners subject to mandatory supervision within seven working days of allocated (five days for sex offenders) and will record the outcome on PR2. Contact will be made with the responsible authority within 14 days of receiving the relevant information from a court.
Risk Assessments
Risk assessments will be completed by the social worker as per the Criminal Justice: Assessment and Management of Risk procedure. The risk assessments will be LSCMI, SA07 and RM2000 (for sex offenders) and where appropriate SARA and/or HCR20.
The assessments will be completed in time for the initial ICM and reviewed at relevant points of the sentence thereafter - at parole stage, non-parole stage, progression stage and pre-release; or when directed by the RMT.
Integrated Case Management (ICM) / MAPPA duties
The Social Worker is required to carry out the relevant tasks which contribute to meeting the timescales as outlined in the ICM Manual, current ICM Sta...