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To apply, all candidates are required to provide:
- a Curriculum Vitae (CV) - (maximum two sides of A4) detailing your qualifications, employment history and any appointments or offices you hold. At the top of your CV, please provide - in bold - a short biography, not exceeding six lines, which outlines your current and previous roles. This should provide a factual summary of your employment to date. Please also provide your preferred contact number and email address.
- Answers to the three questions below. Please upload these in place of the supporting statement. We do not require a separate supporting statement for this campaign.
To demonstrate the potential to adopt the required behaviours in the role of a Parole Board member, please answer the following three questions, each within a limit of 250 words.
In your response to these questions, you should refer to the essential criteria and job description.
· Limit your answers to 250 words for each of the three questions;
· Be aware that you may draw on your personal life experiences as well as any voluntary or paid work experience;
· Select your strongest examples, these do not need to involve the criminal justice system, we are looking for evidence of transferable knowledge, skills and qualities in the examples that you give;
· Ensure your own role in the example is clear and that your answers are specific and tailored to cover the essential competency criteria that we are testing in each question.
Behaviour One – Making effective decisions
Parole Board members must analyse and critically evaluate information to identify continuing risk in a parole case. Information may come from a variety of sources including written dossiers, verbal evidence and electronic updates to decide whether it is necessary for the protection of the public that a person remains confined in prison. All decisions are made by panel of 1, 2 or 3 Parole Board members.
ANSWER THIS QUESTION:
Q1) Please give an example of how you went about making a significant decision to positively impact upon public safety, where you had to reconcile differing opinions and/or conflicting evidence to decide upon a course of action.
In no more than 250 words, please outline: the situation and your role; what you wanted to achieve; how you went about making your decision; and what the outcome was.
Behaviour Two – Delivering at Pace
Parole Board members are required to use a range of IT effectively to access documentation, share and comment on written decisions and communicate with other panellists and staff. Hearings are conducted in person, by telephone and by video. Other cases are completed remotely on the papers without the parties being present. Parole Board members need to plan their time carefully to ensure they are fully prepared and meet deadlines whilst being flexible to accommodate changing circumstances, some of which may be beyond their control.
ANSWER THIS QUESTION:
Q2) Please give an example of a time you worked under pressure in a professional setting to manage competing objectives and deadlines which had consequences for you and other people or organisations.
In no more than 250 words, please outline: the context; what the team wanted to achieve; your role and what you did to increase the chances your team would succeed; the outcome; and what you learned in the process.
Behaviour Three: Communicating and Influencing
Parole Board members are required to take an active part in oral hearings as a panel member or panel chair. They work collaboratively with other panel members in order to make judgements that have a fundamental impact on the lives of others. An oral hearing panel can have 1, 2 or 3 members. They each need to be receptive to others’ views, prepared to be challenged on their own views, communicate effectively and work well as a team.
ANSWER THIS QUESTION:
Q3) Please give an example of where you adapted your approach to a team activity (at work or in your private life) to make sure that the team reached its goal. The situation should be one which shows how you made everyone feel equally valued, accommodated different needs and used the strengths of each person to maximum effect.
You will also need to provide:
- equality information - Information is requested for monitoring purposes only and plays no part in the selection process. It will be kept confidential and will not be seen by the AAP.
- information relating to any outside interests or reputational issues - You need to declare this as part of the online application process. The AAP may explore any issues with you before they make a recommendation on the appointment. Failure to disclose such information could result in an appointment either not being made or being terminated. Conflicts might arise from a variety of sources such as financial interests or share ownership,membership of, or association with, particular bodies or the activities of relatives or partners.
- requests for referees - Please provide names and contact details of two people who may be asked to act as referees for you. You should send this to PublicAppointmentsTeam@justice.gov.uk (being clear to quote your name and PAT160082 in any correspondence). At least one referee must have knowledge of your work relating to your most recent professional and/ or voluntary activity. They will be expected to have authoritative and personal knowledge of your achievements in a professional or public service capacity.
Guidance on how to write a successful application can be found at Appendix 2 in the Candidate Information Pack.
The Advisory Assessment Panel reserves the right to only consider applications that contain all of the elements listed above, and that arrive before the published deadline for applications.