Group Delivery Trainer (4728)
Group Delivery Trainer
The Growth Company (GC) is hiring a Group Delivery Trainer for the West Yorkshire area.
This role involves providing advice, guidance, coaching, mentoring, and support to participants through regular one-on-one meetings and group interventions. The aim is to help hard-to-reach individuals prepare for engagement with core prison services and their eventual release.
This role will involve travel within West Yorkshire.
Currently, all applications are considered as expressions of interest as funding is subject to contract award.
Key Responsibilities:
- Offer continuous resettlement support.
- Delivery of group sessions 3 hours per day.
- Develop and deliver high-quality, engaging group sessions as outlined in the timetable to motivate participants to attend and complete their activities.
- Monitor and track participants' progress, including through reviews, to ensure high attendance, achievement rates, and progression.
- Provide participants with structured feedback and set development objectives.
- Build strong relationships with HMPPS and other agencies providing ongoing and pre-release support.
About You:
- Working with offenders, or those disaffected and marginalised from mainstream services, in training, guidance, advice and counselling environments desirable.
- High level guidance skills, with the ability to deliver one-to-one and group sessions.
- A warm, approachable empathetic style and the ability to establish a rapport and build relationships with participants that supports their progression to education, training and employment and facilitates desistance from crime.
- Experience and knowledge of the Justice sector in a Custody environment.
- Access to a motor vehicle as this role involves visiting various sites.
Skills Required:
- Understanding of the issues impacting the rehabilitation of offenders and desistance theory.
- Experience working with offenders or individuals disaffected and marginalised from mainstream services in training, guidance, advice, and counselling environments is desirable.
- Familiarity with National Probation Services or HM Prison environments, as well as local and national training, education, and employment opportunities, and expertise in training and guidance.
At GC, safeguarding the welfare of all individuals including vulnerable adults and young people is a top priority, and we expect all staff to uphold this standard. All appointments follow Safer Recruitment Procedures, including a DBS check carried out by Due Diligence Limited (DDC Ltd), at no cost to the successful candidate.
Please note: It is a legal offence to apply for a role involving regulated activity if you are on the Barred List.
We are committed to increasing workforce diversity and offer a guaranteed interview to applicants who meet the essential criteria and either have a disability or are from a diverse ethnic community.
If this applies to you, you can request consideration under this scheme during the application process. Your request will be shared only with the Hiring Manager and Internal Recruitment Team.
We also aim to make our recruitment process inclusive and accessible. If you need reasonable adjustments or have any general enquiries at any stage or the recruitment process, please contact careers@growthco.uk or call us on 0161 237 4447.
Examples include:
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Meeting the hiring manager or touring the venue in advance
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Extra time for tasks
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Interview questions shared beforehand
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Accessibility software or equipment for assessments
We’re proud to support the Ban the Box campaign, which helps people with convictions access job opportunities. As part of this, we’ve removed questions about convictions from the initial application stage.
GC is committed to fostering a culture of flexibility and agile working. Many roles will increasingly support full agile arrangements. If you require more permanent flexibility, we encourage you to discuss this during your interview so your request can be considered early in the process.
All GC colleagues will work inline with the Health & Safety at work act and the GC Health & Safety Policy.