CFO Evolution Wing Facilitator

Please note successful candidates should expect to be appointed at the starting point of the salary scale and consideration may be given to a higher salary depending on the experience of the individual

HMP Wealstun, West Yorkshire

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Are you a driven, compassionate and collaborative individual with first-class guidance skills and a proven ability to work intensively with individuals and support their progression, plus deliver effective one-to-one and group sessions?  Do you have a sound knowledge regarding the issues affecting the rehabilitation of offenders, and desistance theory?

If so, join St Giles as our CFO Wing Facilitator working on our CFO Evolution programme, which will see you provide vital support via regular one-to-one reflective practice meetings and group interventions to a caseload of hard-to-reach participants in custody to prepare for engagement with the core prison provision and release.

About St Giles Trust 
An ambitious, well-established charity that helps people facing adversity to find jobs, homes and the right support they need.  Central to our ethos is our belief that people with first-hand experience of successfully overcoming issues such as an offending background, homelessness, addictions and gang involvement, hold the key to positive change in others.

About this key role

Reporting to the CFO Evolution Team Leader, our successful candidate will provide ongoing resettlement support needs and deliver high-quality, engaging group sessions to your assigned participants, while also monitoring and reviewing each individual’s progress to ensure high attendance, achievement rates and progression.  You will be expected to contribute to making contact and establishing relationships with new participants and to assist them to understand the benefits of engaging with the CFO Evolution programme, plus provide participants with structured feedback and set development objectives.

We will rely on you to develop strong relationships with HMPPS/agencies offering support and, where appropriate, feed into stage 2 and 3 of the CFO Wing provision by providing holistic wrap-around with general elements of resettlement support.  In collaboration with the local CFO Activity Hub, planning for and facilitating effective Through the Gate and warm handovers to the relevant Support Worker in Community is also a key element of this role.

What we are looking for

As an organisation that works with children and adults at risk we are committed to safeguarding, protecting and promoting the safety of our clients and successful applicants will require an Enhanced Child and Adult with Child Barred DBS Check.

We actively encourage people with personal experience of the criminal justice system or lived experience of the issues facing this client group to apply for this role.

In return, you can expect a competitive salary, generous leave allowance, staff pension, flexible working, a mentoring programme, an advice and counselling service, clinical therapist sessions, life insurance (4 x annual salary), duvet days, season ticket loan, employee perks programme, eye care voucher and much more.

We are an equity and inclusion confident employer. We welcome all applications and we particularly encourage applications from people of the global majority (black, brown, multi- heritage) and those who identify as disabled, neuroexpansive, neurodiverse, with any protected characteristics and/or social barriers or challenges. We value the empowering and informative impact that all lived experiences and diversity of thought can offer the organisation.

St Giles will guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria set out in the Job Description for the vacancy.

Closing date: 26 June 2024 at 11pm

Interview date: 03 July 2024 on Teams