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 involves providing advice, guidance, coaching, mentoring, and support to participants through regular one-to-one meetings and group interventions, helping hard-to-reach individuals prepare for engagement with core prison services 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. Resettlement Support: Provide continuous resettlement support to participants.
2. Engagement and Case Management: Engage and case manage participants on the CFO Evolution Wing.
3. Group Sessions: Establish and deliver high-quality, engaging group sessions as outlined in the Phase 1 CFO Wing timetable to encourage attendance and completion of actions and activities.
4. Progress Monitoring: Monitor and track participants' progress, including through reviews, to ensure high attendance, achievement rates, and progression.
5. Feedback and Development: Provide participants with structured feedback and set development objectives.
6. Relationship Building: Develop strong relationships with HMPPS and other agencies offering ongoing and pre-release support.
About You:
1. Work Environment: Experience working with offenders or individuals marginalized from mainstream services in training, guidance, advice, and counselling settings is highly desirable.
2. Guidance Skills: Proficiency in delivering high-quality one-to-one and group sessions, meeting at least Grade 2 standards.
3. Interpersonal Skills: A warm, approachable, and empathetic style, with the ability to establish rapport and build relationships that support participants' progression to education, training, and employment, and facilitate desistance from crime.
Skills Required:
1. Qualifications: Information Advice and Guidance and/or teaching qualifications (or equivalent) are preferred.
2. Experience: Extensive experience working closely with individuals to support their progression is crucial.
3. Rehabilitation and Desistance: Understanding of issues affecting offender rehabilitation and desistance theory.
4. Sector Knowledge: Familiarity with National Probation Services or HM Prison environments, as well as local and national training, education, and employment opportunities.
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