The Turnaround Project helps people who have been given prison or community sentences to turn around their futures. Working with people before and after they complete their sentences, and providing real jobs in transitional employment opportunities, Turnaround works to tackle the barriers between them and employment. In the process, Turnaround engages the wider community in supporting people on their journey and reducing the social and financial impact of re-offending.
Our approach seeks to address as many of the factors that impact on that journey as possible. But transitional training and employment opportunities, before and after people complete their sentences, sits at the centre of what we do.
Those transitional training and employment opportunities are provided within social enterprises established and run by the Turnaround Project. Real training and real jobs, in real enterprises.
Transitional employment is different from conventional employment, with our enterprises providing a supportive environment that recognises the particular challenges faced by many of the people we exist to support. That means we look for staff who believe in our values, and who have the right mix of skill, empathy, flexibility, and commitment that is necessary to make our enterprises a success.
We need people who will work to make our enterprises a commercial success – we need to sustain our income if we are to provide people with jobs. But we also need people who will share our determination to make the journey through Turnaround a success for our trainees and employees. Like any other enterprise, we need to generate income. But our most important bottom line is how many people we have supported to turn their lives around.
ABOUT OUTWORK:
Outwork is our property services enterprise. Outwork typically operates in crews of three staff working under an on-site Supervisor. We deliver contracts for clients who want us to do as good a job – or better – as any other commercial provider.
Those contracts include grass-cutting, hedge-cutting, maintaining and planting beds, hard surface cleaning, weed-spraying, litter-picking, and cleaning of indoor areas such as communal hallways.
Over the last three years, we have expanded from having two part-time Supervisors to three full-time Supervisors and three Supervisors’ Assistants. With additional contracts now secured, we are seeking to recruit a fourth full-time Supervisor.
ABOUT THE JOB:
Our Grounds and Property Maintenance Supervisors’ primary responsibility is to ensure that our crews deliver for our customers. They ensure that when Outwork commits to delivering a contract, we do so. That involves personal drive and commitment and utilising their skills and personality to get the very best out of the crew that they are leading on the ground.
The Supervisors are also responsible for ensuring that appropriate health and safety measures are in place and observed wherever Outwork’s work crews are deployed.
Working in a small organisation, the Supervisors are also required to work closely with colleagues within the Turnaround Project to develop the enterprise and advise on relevant policies and procedures.
Seniority level
* Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Management and Manufacturing
* Civic and Social Organizations
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