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 be based at HMP Humber with travel to cover HMP Hull on occasion.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Engage and case-manage eligible participants on the CFO Evolution programme, providing ongoing resettlement support.
2. Assess support needs initially and on an ongoing basis.
3. Create Action Plans, designing appropriate activities, training programmes, and interventions.
4. Provide advocacy, mentoring, advice, guidance, and training interventions tailored to individual needs.
5. Establish and deliver high-quality, engaging 1:1 and group sessions.
6. Monitor and track participants’ progress.
7. Develop strong relationships with HMPPS and other supporting agencies.
8. Facilitate effective Through the Gate and warm handover to the relevant Support Worker in the community.
About You:
1. Experience working with offenders, or those disaffected and marginalised from mainstream services, in training, guidance, advice, and counselling environments is desirable.
2. High-level guidance skills, with the ability to deliver one-to-one and group sessions.
3. A warm, approachable empathetic style and the ability to establish rapport and build relationships with participants that support their progression to education, training, and employment, and facilitate desistance from crime.
Skills Required:
1. Knowledge regarding the issues affecting the rehabilitation of offenders, and desistance theory.
2. Experience working with offenders, or those disaffected and marginalised from mainstream services, in training, guidance, advice, and counselling environments is desirable.
3. Knowledge of National Probation Services or HM Prison environments and/or training, education, and employment opportunities locally and nationally, and of training and guidance.
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