Salary (full time equivalent)
Closing Date
24 Apr 2025 - 00:00
Type
Paid
Hours
Full Time
Location
Preston
Region
Preston
Support Worker
The Growth Company's (GC) Justice Services seeks Support Workers to deliver rehabilitation and Employment Training and Education support within our Creating Future Opportunities (CFO) Evolution Programme.
You will be dual trained as a Support Worker and Activity Facilitator, providing advice, guidance, coaching, mentoring, and support to participants through regular 1:1 meetings and group interventions.
Key Responsibilities
1. Identify individual learning needs and create action plans.
2. Develop interaction with participants and establish supportive relationships.
3. Record interventions, activities, and progress on the CRM system; coordinate further activities with customers.
4. Provide support for participants to implement future courses of action.
5. Deliver further interventions with participants as required, assisting them in deciding on options for meeting their needs and planning a course of action.
6. Prepare and develop resources to support learning.
7. Facilitate group learning to improve communication, social interaction, employability, and progress through presentations and activities.
About You
1. Experience working with offenders or those marginalized from mainstream services in training, guidance, advice, and counselling environments.
2. Strong interpersonal, communication, and negotiation skills.
3. Ability to work in a target-driven environment, focusing on the successful achievement of outcomes for participants.
4. High-level guidance skills, with the ability to deliver one-to-one and group sessions to at least Grade 2 standard.
5. 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. Information Advice and Guidance and/or teaching qualifications. (Desired)
2. Experience working intensively with individuals and supporting their progression.
3. Understanding of issues affecting the rehabilitation of offenders and desistance theory.
4. Knowledge of National Probation Services or HM Prison environments and/or training, education, and employment opportunities locally and nationally.
5. Strong interpersonal, communication, and negotiation skills.
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