Company Description
Catch22 exists to help build a society where everyone has a good place to live, good people around them, and a fulfilling purpose. We call these our '3Ps'.
We achieve this in two ways. First, we improve lives on the frontline through delivery of public services. Secondly, we use our knowledge to change 'the system', to fix the complex web that can trap and disempower those it was set up to help. With the heart of a charity and the mindset of a business, we are uniquely placed to deliver on this challenging agenda.
In Justice, we work with young people and adults in custody and in the community, providing a range of services including offender management and resettlement, mentoring, veterans in custody, victim services, gangs work, and youth justice. We believe that with effective support mechanisms and the correct interventions, we can change service users’ ideology, helping them desist from crime and reach their true potential.
Job Description
We are looking for a confident, well-organised individual with a track record of achieving Service Level Targets and soft targets, to join our Team in Dorset. This post presents an exciting opportunity to become a Team Leader within our Personal Wellbeing service covering the Dorset area. Experience of working with contracts within the CJ system would be advantageous as would experience of completing Risk Assessments on services, sites and service users, along with report writing and data analysis skills.
Commissioned by HMPPS, these services are focused on supporting adult male ex-offenders across the following pathways:
1. Family and Significant Others
2. Lifestyle and Associates
3. Emotional Wellbeing Services
4. Social Inclusion
Your role is to provide line management and motivate a team of Frontline Practitioners to achieve our Business Plan objectives to innovate, revitalise and reform the delivery of Justice Services.
This role will involve working in close partnership with delivery partners, HMPPS, Voluntary Sector and other Criminal Justice organisations to promote and deliver our services and achieve the required outputs and outcomes.
You will be responsible for ensuring all services are mobilised in accordance with contractual deadlines, service deliverables are contractually compliant and meet Catch22’s reporting mechanisms. Furthermore, you will take a pivotal role co-designing innovative and engaging service provisions to ensure best practice and leading-edge services are available to all service users.
You will be accountable for creating an environment in which staff are engaged and empowered to achieve greater impact and understand the strategic vision of Catch22. You will proactively promote the values, aims and objectives of Catch22 and show understanding and commitment to the needs of service users and their local communities and how Catch22 Justice services can most effectively address these needs.
Qualifications
We are looking for a confident, well-organised Team Leader with a track record of achieving Service Level Targets and soft targets, to join our Management Team for Dorset.
This position is based in Poole but travel across Dorset is required as is travel across the Southwest, South Central and London for training and meetings.
Experience of working with contracts within the CJ system would be advantageous as would experience of completing Risk Assessments on services, sites and service users, along with report writing and data analysis skills.
You will be inducting, training and supporting two teams both in person and remotely and will undertake Quality Assurance on all members of the team, both on their case work, 1 to 1 and group delivery.
Desirable: Any qualification relevant to rehabilitation of offenders, for example criminology/ criminal justice/ social care/ mental health/ IAG/ Family Services/ Emotional Wellbeing/ Social Inclusion / Probation Studies.
Evidence of continual professional development.
Group work delivery.
Experience of working with People on Probation.
Report writing skills.
Essential: Experience of managing a team of frontline staff.
Excellent IT skills and experience working with Microsoft Office - Word and Excel and other IT applications.
Driving license and access to a Vehicle (this role will require travel to offices across the South West area).
Additional Information
Before you apply for this opportunity,
* Review the full job description & contact recruitment@catch-22.org.uk if you have any questions about the role that isn’t included in the advertisement.
* Successful post-holders MUST have a full UK Driving License and access to a personal vehicle for work purposes as it is an essential part of the role.
* The post-holder must have right to work in the UK. Catch22 does not currently provide a licence to sponsor visas but please see this register to see those that do.
Applying for this opportunity
Please provide your CV and cover letter, along with the completion of the screening questions to express your interest in this opportunity. Please note, in the interest of safer recruitment and ensuring that applicants are a right fit for the role, submitted applications must contain a CV, satisfactory responses to the screening questions, and information detailing interest in the role, to be considered for this position.
AI generated applications are not acceptable and could lead to a disqualification of your current and future applications across Catch22 jobs. In order to ensure that applications are fair, genuine, and representable of the candidate applying, our teams may use a number of tools to identify occurrences where candidates have not given an honest response during the application process.
Information about this opportunity
Contract: Permanent
Hours & work pattern: Full time, 38 hours per week.
Salary: from £31,980 per annum
Location: This role is at the Poole hub office however there will be travel throughout Dorset will be required as will travel across the South West area.
Screening: Successful admission to post subject to enhanced DBS check, prison vetting check, and employer Right To Work in the UK check.
Proactive Recruitment Strategy: We are proactively recruiting to build a pool of pre-cleared candidates for future vacancies. While we may not be able to offer an immediate role, successful applicants will undergo all relevant pre-employment checks, enabling them to join our workforce promptly when a position becomes available. This approach is based on expected leavers over the coming 3 month period and ensures a smooth transition into the team as opportunities arise.
Catch22 is proud to have “Banned the Box”. This means that we do not ask for candidates to disclose criminal convictions at the application stage. Instead, we invite disclosures at interview stage, and encourage them at the offer stage. Please see the opportunities Information Pack for more information.
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At Catch22 we value equality, diversity and inclusion. We are wholeheartedly committed to the principle of equality of opportunity, both as an employer and as a provider of services. Diversity and Inclusion is part of what we do every day, working to deliver our vision to build a strong society where everyone has good people around them, a purpose, and a good place to live.
At Catch22 we are proud of our commitment in supporting people develop in their careers and progress in our organisation. In 2024, within our Justice Hub, we have 68% of those in management roles that originally joined Catch22 in the frontline workforce and some worked across a number of roles and Leadership positions before joining management. This allows us to have a highly experienced management group and provides development opportunities for those in our much valued front-line.
Catch22 is committed to rigorous safeguarding and safer recruitment practices; ensuring that every individual within the organisation has been safely and appropriately checked.
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