Group Profile: Governing Governor -
Standard Establishment
Band 10
Document Ref.
HMPPS OR T 30 GP Governing Governor Standard
v8.0
Document Type
Management
Version
8.0
Classification
Official
Date of Issue
27th October 2022
Status
Baselined
Produced by
Job Evaluation Assurance and Support Team
Authorised by
Reward Team
JD Evidence
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Group Profile
Group Profile
Governing Governor - Standard Establishment
Name
Organisation
Senior Management - The job holder will be a Senior Manager
Level
and is accountable for the provision of leadership, direction,
coordination, strategic decisions and risks for a large/complex
establishment with managerial responsibility for all staff across
their functions. They are accountable for the budgets allocated
to functions and the effective and efficient use of resources to
ensure the security of establishment.
Band
10
Overview
Job holders within this Group Profile will be responsible and
accountable for running an establishment which has been
defined as standard complexity, providing staff management, risk
management, leadership and strategic direction. They will be
deploying operational managerial skills and experience, gained
from managing in a variety of establishments.
Will require highly developed leadership and managerial skills
applying HMPPS strategic policies. They will have operational
skills and experience to run their Prison establishment and be
accredited at Senior Operational Manager level deeming them
suitable to be in charge.
These roles are operational and prisoner-facing roles.
Characteristics
Typical tasks associated with this Group Profile include:
• Accountable for ensuring a safe, decent and secure
environment is maintained for prisoners and staff
• Accountable for providing leadership and direction for staff
including coaching and mentoring for managers
• Lead on the development and communication of a decency
strategy for the establishment that encompasses staff,
prisoners and visitors
• Accountable for the promotion of prison service policy in all
activities and behaviours by promoting diversity, decency,
safety and reducing re-offending agendas
• Accountable for strategic planning and assessing particular
needs of establishment prisoner population and making
changes to regimes accordingly
• Accountable for ensuring the establishment has effective
contingency and emergency plans in place
• Accountable for local employee relations maintaining and
building relationships and partnerships where possible to
facilitate negotiations with trade unions
• Accountable for the establishment’s overall achievement of
Service Delivery Indicators (SDIs) and standards, leading on
the performance and delivery of targets relating to the budget
and People Plan
• Accountable for the performance and development of the
Senior Management Team (SMT), actively addressing
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underperformance whilst valuing the positive contributions of
staff
• Accountable for chairing local grievance appeals, conduct and
discipline and capability hearings
• Accountable for the management prioritisation and allocation
of resources to deliver the Establishment strategic plan
• Accountable for ensuring key messages are delivered to all
staff through appropriate levels of communication e.g. full staff
briefings, presentations and staff notices
• Accountable for reviewing and sanctioning impact
assessments for policies before local implementation
• Accountable for overall monitoring and control of the
establishment budget, prioritising expenditure with budget
holders.
Job Descriptions
The job holder once in post will be in matched to a job
relating to this
description; a sample list is shown below. The post is rotational
Group Profile
so the job holder could during their career carry out the role of
different job descriptions.
• Governor Standard
• Governor Standard : Centre Manager
• Governor Standard : YP
Minimum
• All candidates are subject to security and identity checks prior to
Eligibility
taking up post.
• All external candidates are subject to 6 months
probation. Internal candidates are subject to probation if they
have not already served a probationary period within HMPPS.
• All staff are required to declare whether they are a member of a
group or organisation which HMPPS considers to be racist.
Essential Skills/
The job holder must have either been successfully accredited at
Qualifications/
the Senior Operational Manager (SOM) assessment or been
Accreditation/
successfully accredited by passing both the Governor
Registration
Assessment Centre (GAC) and the Deputy Governor & Governor
Incident Management Silver Command (IMSC) Assessment.
An ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence
through the medium of English or (where specified in Wales)
Welsh.
Hours of Work
37 hour working week
and Allowances
Required Hours Allowance
This role requires working regular unsocial hours and a payment
at the current approved organisation rate will be made in addition
to your basic pay to recognise this.
Unsocial hours are those hours outside 0700 - 1900hrs Monday
to Friday and include working evenings, nights, weekends and
Bank/Public Holidays
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Behaviours
• Delivering at Pace
• Leadership
• Communicating and Influencing
• Seeing the Bigger Picture
• Managing a Quality Service
• Developing Self and Others
• Making Effective Decisions
Strengths
It is advised strengths are chosen locally, recommended 4-8.
Essential
Experience
Technical
N.B these are the technical requirements for the group profile,
Requirements
please check the individual job description relating to this group
profile for any job specific requirements and add if required.
• The job holder must have either been successfully accredited
at the Senior Operational Manager (SOM) assessment or
been successfully accredited by passing both the Governor
Assessment Centre (GAC) and the Deputy Governor &
Governor Incident Management Silver Command (IMSC)
Assessment.
Ability
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Technical
Strengths
N.B these are the technical
requirements for the group profile,
It is advised
Behaviours
Ability
Experience
please check the individual job
strengths are
description relating to this group
chosen locally,
profile for any job specific
recommended 4-8.
requirements and add if required.
The job holder must have either been
successfully accredited at the Senior
Operational Manager (SOM)
assessment or been successfully
Delivering at Pace
accredited by passing both the
Governor Assessment Centre (GAC)
and the Deputy Governor & Governor
Incident Management Silver Command
(IMSC) Assessment
Leadership
Communicating and
Influencing
Seeing the Bigger Picture
Managing a Quality
Service
Developing Self and
Others
Making Effective
Decisions
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