Group Worker

2 weeks ago

Wetherby, United Kingdom HM Prison & Probation Service Full time

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 325025**Salary**:

- £30,471- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Executive Officer- Band 4**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Type of role**:

- Education and Training**Working pattern**:

- Full-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

Location

About the job

**Benefits**:
Things you need to know

Location
- This position is based at HM Prison Wealstun, LS23 7AZAbout the job

**Job summary**:

- Please refer to Job Description**Job description**:
**Overview of the job**

The role is based in a prison and will involve working in groups and one-to-one to deliver a programme to help prisoners understand their behaviours, build positive relationships, improve critical thinking skills and support them to live an offence-free future. The role will work as part of a small team of Group Workers to provide an important rehabilitative service and meet the Government’s ambition of reducing re-offending.

**Summary**

The job holder will deliver a range of activities and programmes, which include assessment, group and individual treatment and provides support to wider rehabilitative activity within the prison.

The post holder will be supported through training, career development opportunities and professional support.

This is a non-operational, non-rotational job with no line management responsibilities.

**Responsibilities, Activities and Duties**

The job holder will be required to carry out the following responsibilities, activities and duties:

- Deliver programmes in a group or individual basis, following a manual and delivering as designed.
- Organise materials for session delivery.
- Plan sessions as per the programme requirements and identify ways to deliver the sessions in a responsive way to meet the needs of the participants.
- Notify the Treatment Managers and other team members when sessions are unable to run, and complete missed session catch ups.
- Identify and actively recruit future programmes participants, completing assessments, and screening tools whilst maintaining an accurate database of the outcomes.
- Maintain accurate records of assessments and contact with prisoners.
- Conduct motivational interviews with prisoners with the aim to engage them in programmes.
- Continually motivate and engage future, current and past participants.
- Complete post session de-briefs and record accurately any key information from the sessions.
- Complete post-programme tasks including writing a record of progress, setting objectives, contributing to post-programme reviews and communicating progress with sentence management team, for each programme participant.
- Actively engage in sentence management by liaising with prison and community Offender Managers.
- Work towards the delivery guidelines outlined within the quality assurance framework, supported by your treatment manager.
- Actively engage in supervision provided by treatment and programme management teams.
- Engage in continual professional development opportunities supported by your line manager.
- Deliver awareness packages to other staff in the establishment.

The duties/responsibilities listed above describe the post as it is at present and is not intended to be exhaustive. The job holder is expected to accept reasonable alterations and additional tasks of a similar level that may be necessary. Significant adjustments may require re-examination under the Job Evaluation Scheme and shall be discussed in the first instance with the job holder.

An ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence through the medium of English or (where specified in Wales) Welsh.

**Person specification**:

- Please refer to Job Description**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Communicating and Influencing
- Developing Self and Others
- Managing a Quality Service
- Working Together

**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £30,471, HM Prison & Probation Service contributes £8,257 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.- Access to learning and development
- A working environment that supports a range of flexible working options to enhance your work life balance
- A working culture which encourages inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
- Annual Leave
- Public Holidays
- Season Ticket Advance

Things you need to know

**Selection process details**:

- This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Strengths.- Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.**Security**:
- People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.**Nationality requirements**:
This job is broadly open to the following groups:

- UK nationals

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