The Growth Company's (GC) Justice Services has an exciting opportunity for a Wing Facilitator within our Creating Future Opportunities (CFO) Evolution Programme at HMP Moorland (Doncaster).
The role will be to provide advice, guidance, coaching, mentoring, and support to a caseload of participants via regular one-to-one reflective practice meetings and group interventions as per detailed timetable and support a group of hard-to-reach participants in custody to prepare for engagement with the core prison provision and release.
We help to make a lasting difference to the lives of people throughout the North of England and beyond, by supporting individuals to gain meaningful employment.
Our highly skilled advisers and keyworkers work with a range of individuals; from people who have found themselves recently out of work, to those with complex barriers such as physical disabilities, mental ill-health, and debt.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Provide ongoing resettlement support.
2. Engage and case manage participants on the CFO Evolution Wing.
3. Establish and deliver high-quality, engaging group sessions as detailed in the phase 1 CFO Wing timetable to encourage participants to attend and complete their actions and activities.
4. Monitor and track participants’ progress (distance travelled), including via reviews, to ensure high attendance, achievement rates, and progression.
5. Provide participants with structured feedback and set development objectives.
6. Develop strong relationships with HMPPS and other agencies offering ongoing and pre-release support.
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 to at least Grade 2 standard.
3. 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:
1. Information Advice and Guidance and/or teaching qualifications (or equivalent) are desired, but experience working intensively with individuals and supporting their progression is most important.
2. Knowledge regarding the issues affecting the rehabilitation of offenders and desistance theory.
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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