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'.
Social Justice
In Social 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 the ideology of service users, helping them to desist from crime, and reach their true potential.
This post presents an exciting opportunity to become a frontline practitioner within our Personal Wellbeing services in the London region. Commissioned by HMPPS, these services are focused on supporting adult male ex-offenders across the following four pathways:
* Family and Significant Others
* Lifestyle and Associates
* Social Inclusion
Job Description
This advert is rolling for multiple roles across our pan London Personal Wellbeing Contract, and the role will be based at one of our below hubs, with frequent travel across their respective clusters (Please state a preference of base as part of your application):
* Croydon
* Romford
* Canning Town
* Kings Cross
* Brixton
* Ealing
* Lewisham
About You
* Confident, professional, and adaptable, with the ability to work effectively in challenging environments.
* Excellent communication skills, with the ability to build and manage great working relationships, sharing knowledge and skills to deliver shared goals.
* Able to effectively motivate and support service users in their ability to change, through both one-to-one and group work interventions.
* Able to identify and recognise risk, and act according to risk management procedures, to enable service users to manage their own safety, and the safety of others.
* Able to proactively manage a caseload of service users, utilising digital systems, and appropriately sharing information, with excellent attention to detail when recording work and meeting deadlines.
About the role
The role of Wellbeing Practitioner is an excellent opportunity to directly support service users in addressing their needs and improving their prospects as a positive influence for change.
* Managing a caseload of service users, completing ongoing assessments and management of individual needs, capacity, opportunity, and motivation to rehabilitate.
* Delivering interventions to support rehabilitation.
* Working in partnership with a range of local providers, taking account of available risk information.
* Working in close partnership with delivery partners, HMPPS, the Voluntary Sector, and other Criminal Justice organisations.
Qualifications
* Good basic education, including Maths and English GCSE, or equivalent.
* Experience of working with Microsoft Office - Word and Excel.
* Desirable: Any qualification relevant to working with those in the Criminal Justice System, for example, criminology/ criminal justice/ social care/ mental health/ IAG/ Family.
Additional Information
Salary: £27,308 per annum
Hours of work: Full time, 38 hours per week
Contract: Permanent
*Recruitment for this role will include a 2-part recruitment process - group interviews based on skills, and then if successful, a competency panel interview.
*This role is subject to an Enhanced DBS and MoJ checks.
*This is a community-based role, with travel across various delivery and training sites across London.
* 28 days annual leave + bank holidays, rising to 33 days with service.
* Pension scheme with matching contributions of up to 4%.
* Discounted shopping opportunities.
* 1 or 2 work from home days can be granted as part of these roles for admin purposes; however, not contractually obliged but part of our wellbeing support.
* Possibility of flexible work requests as part of our Catch22 Ways of Working scheme, this includes optional 4-day weeks or 9-day fortnights working patterns.
See the benefits of working for Catch22 here.
Unless otherwise stated, interviews will be arranged as suitable candidates are identified, so early application is strongly advised.
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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