Rehabilitation Program Facilitator

The Ministry of Justice is seeking a skilled Rehabilitation Program Facilitator to join our team in a prison setting. As a Group Worker, you will play a crucial role in delivering a program to help prisoners understand their behaviors, build positive relationships, and improve critical thinking skills.

The successful candidate will work as part of a small team to provide an important rehabilitative service, meeting the Government's ambition of reducing re-offending.

1. Deliver programs in a group or individual basis, following a manual and delivering as designed.
2. Organize materials for session delivery.
3. Plan sessions as per the program requirements and identify ways to deliver the sessions in a responsive way to meet the needs of the participants.
4. Notify the Treatment Managers and other team members when sessions are unable to run, and complete missed session catch ups.
5. Identify and actively recruit future programs participants, completing assessments, and screening tools whilst maintaining an accurate database of the outcomes.
6. Maintain accurate records of assessments and contact with prisoners.
7. Conduct motivational interviews with prisoners with the aim to engage them in programs.
8. Continually motivate and engage future, current and past participants.
9. Complete post-session de-briefs and record accurately any key information from the sessions.
10. 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.
11. Actively engage in sentence management by liaising with prison and community Offender Managers.
12. Work towards the delivery guidelines outlined within the quality assurance framework, supported by your treatment manager.
13. Actively engage in supervision provided by treatment and programme management teams.
14. Engage in continual professional development opportunities supported by your line manager.
15. 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.