Support Worker in Custody

The Growth Company's (GC) Justice Services has an exciting opportunity for a Wing Facilitator within our Creating Future Opportunities (CFO) Evolution Programme.

The role will be to provide advice, guidance, coaching, mentoring and support to a caseload of participants via regular one-to-one reflective practice meetings and group interventions as per detailed timetable and support a group of hard-to-reach participants in custody to prepare for engagement with the core prison provision 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, Be and debt.

**This role will be based at HMP Humber.**

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Provide ongoing resettlement support.
- Engage and case manage participants on the CFO Evolution Wing.
- Establish and deliver high-quality, engaging group sessions as detailed in the phase 1 CFO Wing timetable to encourage participants to attend and complete their actions and activities.
- Monitor and track participants’ progress (distance travelled), including via reviews, to ensure high attendance, achievement rates and progression.
- Provide participants with structured feedback and set development objectives.
- Develop strong relationships with HMPPS and other agencies offering ongoing and pre-release support.

**About You**:

- Working with offenders, or those disaffected and marginalised from mainstream services, in training, guidance, advice and counselling environments desirable.
- High level guidance skills, with the ability to deliver one-to-one and group sessions to at least Grade 2 standard.
- A warm, approachable empathetic style and the ability to establish a rapport and build relationships with participants that supports their progression to education, training and employment and facilitates desistance from crime.

**Skills Required**:

- Information Advice and Guidance and/or teaching qualifications, (or equivalent), desired, but experience working intensively with individuals and supporting their progression is most important.
- Knowledge regarding the issues affecting the rehabilitation of offenders, and desistance theory.
- Working with offenders, or those disaffected and marginalised from mainstream services, in training, guidance, advice and counselling environments desirable.
- Knowledge of National Probation Services or HM Prison environments and/or training, education, and employment opportunities locally and nationally, and of training and guidance.

GC aims to promote a culture of flexibility and agile working. Going forward we will be transitioning to a culture where full agile working will be a feature of many of our roles. We also recognise that there may be a need for more permanent flexibility in your working arrangements and in such cases, we encourage you to have these discussions at the interview stage, to enable your flexible working request to be considered as early as possible.

All GC colleagues will work inline with the Health & Safety at work act and the GC Health & Safety Policy.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: Up to £27,500.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Bereavement leave
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Referral programme
- Sabbatical
- Sick pay

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: 4141