Group Delivery Trainer (4141)
Group Delivery Trainer
The Growth Company's (GC) Justice Services is thrilled to offer an exciting opportunity for a Group Delivery/ Trainer within our Creating Future Opportunities (CFO) Evolution Programme. 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.
We are dedicated to making a lasting impact on the lives of people throughout the North of England and beyond by supporting individuals in gaining meaningful employment. Our highly skilled advisers and keyworkers work with a diverse range of individuals, from those who have recently become unemployed to those facing complex barriers such as physical disabilities, mental health issues, and debt.
Key Responsibilities:
- Resettlement Support: Provide continuous resettlement support to participants.
- Engagement and Case Management: Engage and case manage participants on the CFO Evolution Wing.
- Group Sessions: Establish and deliver high-quality, engaging group sessions as outlined in the Phase 1 CFO Wing timetable to encourage attendance and completion of actions and activities.
- Progress Monitoring: Monitor and track participants' progress, including through reviews, to ensure high attendance, achievement rates, and progression.
- Feedback and Development: Provide participants with structured feedback and set development objectives.
- Relationship Building: Develop strong relationships with HMPPS and other agencies offering ongoing and pre-release support.
About You:
- Work Environment: Experience working with offenders or individuals marginalised from mainstream services in training, guidance, advice, and counselling settings is highly desirable.
- Guidance Skills: Proficiency in delivering high-quality one-to-one and group sessions, meeting at least Grade 2 standards.
- Interpersonal Skills: A warm, approachable, and empathetic style, with the ability to establish rapport and build relationships that support participants' progression to education, training, and employment, and facilitate desistance from crime.
Skills Required:
- Qualifications: Information Advice and Guidance and/or teaching qualifications (or equivalent) are preferred.
- Experience: Extensive experience working closely with individuals to support their progression is crucial.
- Rehabilitation and Desistance: Understanding of issues affecting offender rehabilitation and desistance theory.
- Work Environment: Experience working with offenders or individuals marginalised from mainstream services in training, guidance, advice, and counselling settings is desirable.
- Sector Knowledge: Familiarity with National Probation Services or HM Prison environments, as well as local and national training, education, and employment opportunities.
We are currently unable to provide sponsorship for work permits or visas. Therefore, we can only consider candidates who already have the legal right to work in the UK.
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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.
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.
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