Knowledge and the Probation Service: Raising Standards for Trainees, Assessors and Practitioners - Softcover

Philip Whitehead; Jamie Thompson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470092041 ISBN 13: 9780470092040

Publisher: Wiley, 2004

Synopsis

Knowledge and the Probation Service is designed to help trainee probation officers study for the Diploma in Probation Studies, focusing particularly on the NVQ elements and making the link to the degree programme in probation. Written by Philip Whitehead and Jamie Thompson, each with over 25 years’ experience of the probation service, it will also be valuable to those assessing and managing trainees.

Opening with an historical overview of training in probation, the book moves on to examine key aspects of the NVQ: report writing, information for Practice Development Assessors, how to put training into practice once qualified, and how to progress beyond the codification of knowledge to achieving vocational excellence as a probation officer.

Timely and relevant, Knowledge and the Probation Service will stimulate and motivate trainees, offer food for thought for those involved in the planning and development of probation training, and will contribute to the wider debate about the nature of probation identity in these changing times for the service.

Teaching and learning features include:

• Chapter menus and summaries
• Further reading
• Glossary
• Appendices

 

About this title

About the Author

Philip Whitehead has worked for the Teesside Probation Service since 1981. He has published several books and articles in relation to probation, community supervision of offenders, temporary release schemes and reconviction, and managing the probation service. Since 2001 he has been working as Senior Practice Development Assessor, which involves teaching and coaching trainees undertaking the Diploma in Probation Studies to prepare them to work as probation officers.

Jamie Thompson worked for Northumbria Probation Service for 19 years. He has been involved in the training of probation officers as a practice teacher, training manager and joint appointment. He was course leader for the probation degree and coordinating Internal Verifier for the Community Justice NVQ Assessment Centre at Northumbria University. He is currently Principal Lecturer and Learning and Teaching Coordinator and a joint manager of the Community Safety Research Unit. He is an active researcher and has published in relation to probation, community safety, and teaching and learning issues.

From the Back Cover

This book is designed to help trainee probation officers with theDiploma in Probation Studies, especially with the NVQ elements andmaking the link to the degree programme in probation. Written byPhilip Whitehead and Jamie Thompson, each with over 25 years'experience of the probation service, the book will also be valuableto those assessing and managing trainees.

Opening with an historical overview of training in probation,the book moves on to examine aspects of the NVQ, report writing,information for Practice Development Assessors, how to put traininginto practice once qualified, and beyond the codification ofknowledge to vocational excellence as a probation officer.

Teaching and learning features include:

• chapter menus and summaries
• further reading
• glossary
• appendices

Timely and relevant, Knowledge and the Probation Servicewill stimulate and motivate trainees, offer food for thought forthose involved in the planning and development of probationtraining, and will contribute to the wider debate about the natureof probation identity in these changing times for the service.

Opening with an historical overview of training in probation, the book moves on to examine aspects of the NVQ, report writing, information for Practice Development Assessors, how to put training into practice once qualified, and beyond the codification of knowledge to vocational excellence as a probation officer.

Teaching and learning features include:

• chapter menus and summaries
• further reading
• glossary
• appendices

Timely and relevant, Knowledge and the Probation Service will stimulate and motivate trainees, offer food for thought for those involved in the planning and development of probation training, and will contribute to the wider debate about the nature of probation identity in these changing times for the service.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0470092041
• ISBN 13: 9780470092040
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 236