The Home Office works to build a safe, fair and prosperous UK. We achieve this through our work on counter-terrorism, policing, fire, crime, drugs policy, immigration and passports.
Immigration Enforcement is responsible for enforcing the government’s immigration laws, tackling illegal migration, removing foreign national offenders and immigration offenders from the UK. It also aims to disrupt the organised criminal groups that exploit the vulnerable for their personal gain. Learn more on our careers pages.
The role is in the operational arm of the Foreign National Offender (FNO) Returns Command, Immigration Prison Team.
Foreign National Offender Returns Command’s (FNO RC) objective is to protect the public by deporting or removing FNOs who commit criminal offences, and to actively monitor and manage FNOs released into the community. We manage each case through the legal process, negotiating barriers such as travel documents and ensuring that the use of immigration detention is appropriate.
This is an exciting opportunity for an individual who likes working in a fast-paced, prison and detention setting.
The Immigration Prison Teams (IPT) are based in 13 embedded hubs across the United Kingdom, with some teams carrying out mobile roles across the region your base will be a Home Office building and require you to travel to these sites.
IPT officers engage with Foreign National Offenders (FNOs), and a range of stakeholders across the Prison and Immigration Removal Centre (IRC) estate. The role is about managing relationships that assist in progressing cases to removal or release. IPT officers (at all grades) are required to be able to engage empathically with an FNO, a prison governor, an immigration caseworker, the voluntary sector, law enforcement and offender managers.
Key Responsibilities
Key responsibilities will include (but not limited to):
• Engaging with case owners, prison staff and FNOs to progress and conclude cases. Manage these relationships, through clear and empathic communication.
• Promoting compliant returns to FNOs, including the Facilitated Removal Scheme (FRS).
• Carry out FNO induction interviews and surgeries, working to establish nationality, identity and other relevant information that assists in progressing the deportation case.
• Serve deportation paperwork and explain the process to FNOs, manage data effectively, accurately updating systems such as ATLAS.
• Be mindful of FNO health and vulnerability issues, escalating concerns to prison staff and case owners.
• Attend and support His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) at Assessment Care in Custody and Teamwork (ACCT) reviews when immigration is a direct trigger to the FNO’s well being.
• Carry out FNO screening and substantive Asylum, National Referral Mechanism (NRM) interviews in Prisons and IRCs.
• As a point of contact for IPT to deal with FNO Wing Applications and deal with any queries from prison staff.
• Carry out the duty officer role for IPT fielding enquiries from other government department and process Imminent release cases.
Work Pattern
Due to the business requirements of this role, it is only available on a full-time basis.
Shift times are Early:0700-1424, Late: 1136-1900, and weekends: 0900-1700.
Initially, successful candidates must attend a 3 week course which will be held in Croydon.
Training
You will receive full training and support to do the job. Training takes place initially in the classroom and then continues on the job with a mentor who supports you until you are fully confident in the role. Even then you are never alone; you work as part of a team where there is always someone around for advice and support. Further information on what the training involves can be found on our website.
Candidates must pass training to continue in the role.
Travel
Some travel to other regional sites is required.
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