We are pleased to announce that the Parole Board is now recruiting new members. In this campaign, the Parole Board is specifically looking to attract Psychologist, Psychiatrist and Retired Judicial Members to join the more than 250 members currently contributing to the important work of parole reviews.

This is a varied and important role in protecting the public, while ensuring fairness for all involved. The Parole Board works to protect the public by risk assessing prisoners to decide whether they can safely be released into the community. It works as a court and makes risk assessments which are rigorous, fair and timely, based on information supplied by expert witnesses. The roles are public appointments.

This exciting opportunity is open to those who live in all regions of England and Wales. The role is home based, including with some hearings undertaken remotely by telephone and video. Travel will also be required to attend oral hearings during the working day in HMP establishments across England & Wales.

We are looking for people with a genuine interest in the work we do and who possess the behaviours, skills and judgement to make an effective and critical contribution to the Board’s work. Parole Board decisions are of critical importance to public confidence in the criminal justice system.

At this time, we are only recruiting three specialist member roles:

If you think this might be you, please have a look at the further information on each of the roles here.

The Parole Board also has Independent members who bring a breadth of skills and experience. We are not presently recruiting this type of member but you can register your interest here if you would like to be notified when out next campaign opens.

For further information on the work of a Parole Board member, please see this write up in the Sunday Times.

Following suspension of the 2020 national Clinical Excellence Awards competition, ministers have agreed to extend those awards that were due to be renewed in 2020 by one year

Extended awards will be due for renewal in the 2021 competition and renewable for 4 years.

National Clinical Excellence Award holders who were due to submit a renewal application in 2020, and whose award is due to expire on 1 April 2021, should complete the online form. The form should take less than 5 minutes to complete.

Check your award’s renewal year by logging into your account and clicking the ‘My Award’ tab.

Contact accea@dhsc.gov.uk if you need further help or advice.

Sellafield Ltd recently joined the organisation and are supporting the campaign. To do so, we are promoting some of the fantastic work of our scientists and engineers.

The picture accompanying this story shows some of our employees who make up part of the one million, and we also have blogs from some of our employees to highlight their work and how they came to work in their particular fields.

Penny Rathbone is our polymers expert. She has been working with the Cumbria Resilience Forum, where here knowledge of all thing plastic, rubber and seal related has helped ensure that our key workers have continued to have supplies of safe personal protective equipment.

Rebecca Weston, our Chief Operating Officer has blogged about the importance of the day, and how she is keen for more people to know about the opportunities available to them.

She also outlines how she got into a career in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), through a route which included teaching English in Eastern Europe.

Katherine Eilbeck led our work to join WISE. She said:

WISE is a fantastic organisation with an important and laudable aim, to encourage more women into the field. I’m delighted that Sellafield Ltd has joined the campaign and hope that as many of our employees as possible support ‘one of the million’.