Support Worker (Activity Facilitator) (4451)
Support Worker (Activity Facilitator)
The Growth Company's (GC) Justice Services is hiring a Support Worker in Custody (Activity Facilitator) for the Creating Future Opportunities (CFO) Evolution Programme. You will provide advice, guidance, coaching, mentoring, and support to participants through one-to-one meetings and group interventions. Help participants in custody prepare for release and resettle into their communities with practical help, advice, and motivation.
We make a lasting difference by supporting individuals to gain meaningful employment. Our skilled advisers and keyworkers assist a range of individuals, from those recently out of work to those with complex barriers like disabilities, mental ill-health, and debt.
This role will involve will be based at HMP Humber with travel to cover HMP Hull on occasion.
Key Responsibilities:
- Engage and case-manage eligible participants on the CFO Evolution programme, providing ongoing resettlement support.
- Assess support needs initially and on an ongoing basis.
- Create Action Plans, designing appropriate activities, training programmes, and interventions.
- Provide advocacy, mentoring, advice, guidance, and training interventions tailored to individual needs.
- Establish and deliver high-quality, engaging 1:1 and group sessions.
- Monitor and track participants’ progress.
- Develop strong relationships with HMPPS and other supporting agencies.
- Facilitate effective Through the Gate and warm handover to the relevant Support Worker in the community.
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.
Skills Required:
- Knowledge regarding the issues affecting the rehabilitation of offenders, and desistance theory.
- Working with offenders, or those disaffected and marginalised from mainstream services, in training, guidance, advice and counselling environments desirable.
- Knowledge of National Probation Services or HM Prison environments and/or training, education, and employment opportunities locally and nationally, and of training and guidance.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of everyone including vulnerable adults and young people, we expect all staff to share this commitment. All appointments will be subject to Safer Recruitment Procedures which include a DBS check. This will be conducted by Due Diligence Limited (DDC Ltd) on behalf of GC. Please note that the successful candidate will not be required to pay for this.
If you are on the Barred List, it is against the law to apply and to be hired for a role that includes regulated activity with the concerned group.
We are committed to increasing the diversity of our workforce, we provide a guaranteed interview to applicants who meet the essential requirements for a role. This commitment applies to candidates who have a disability or are from a diverse ethnic community.
As part of our application process, you can ask to be considered under this scheme if you are from an ethnic community or have a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term negative effect on your ability to do normal daily activities. Providing that you meet the essential criteria for the role, you will then be invited for an interview. Your guaranteed interview application will only be shared with the Hiring Manager and our Internal Recruitment Team.
We are a member of the national campaign Ban the Box; this campaign aims to open opportunities for people with convictions to compete for jobs. We’re supporting the campaign by removing conviction questions at the applications stage.
GC aims to promote a culture of flexibility and agile working. Going forward we will be transitioning to a culture where full agile working will be a feature of many of our roles. We also recognise that there may be a need for more permanent flexibility in your working arrangements and in such cases, we encourage you to have these discussions at the interview stage, to enable your flexible working request to be considered as early as possible.
If you require support with the recruitment process, please contact or Internal Recruitment Team at careers@growthco.uk or call us on 0161 237 4447.
All GC colleagues will work inline with the Health & Safety at work act and the GC Health & Safety Policy.