Support Worker in Custody

Location

Leeds, HMP Leeds

Company

Employment

Contract type

Permanent/ Full- time

Salary

Up to £27,500 per annum

Closing Date

05/12/2025

Ref No

4928

The Growth Company's (GC) Justice Services has an exciting opportunity for Support Worker in Custody - Activity Facilitator within our Creating Future Opportunities (CFO) Evolution Programme.

You will be dual trained as a Support Worker and Activity Facilitator and with complete oversight of the CFO Evolution programme, provide advice, guidance, coaching, mentoring and support to a caseload of participants via regular one-to-one meetings and group interventions as appropriate.

Support participants in custody to prepare for release and successfully resettle into their local communities by providing practical help, advice and guidance, as well as motivation and understanding.

This role will be based at HMP Leeds.

Key Responsibilities:

• Engage and case-manage eligible participants on the CFO Evolution programme by providing ongoing resettlement support.
• Create an Action Plan, planning and designing appropriate activities, training programmes and interventions.
• Provide advocacy, mentoring, advice and guidance and training interventions that meet the needs of individual participants.
• Monitor and track participants' progress (distance travelled).
• Develop strong relationships with HMPPS/agencies offering support.
• Contribute to making contact and establishing relationships with new participants and assist them to understand the benefits of engaging with the CFO Evolution programme.
• Where appropriate, feed into stage 2 and 3 of the CFO Wing provision by providing holistic wrap-around with general elements of resettlement support.
• Complete the Pre-release inventory and associated actions.
• In collaboration with the local CFO Activity Hub, plan for and facilitate effective Through the Gate and warm handover to the relevant Support Worker in Community.

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.

At GC, safeguarding the welfare of all individuals including vulnerable adults and young people is a top priority, and we expect all staff to uphold this standard. All appointments follow Safer Recruitment Procedures, including a DBS check carried out by Due Diligence Limited (DDC Ltd), at no cost to the successful candidate.

Please note: It is a legal offence to apply for a role involving regulated activity if you are on the Barred List.

We are committed to increasing workforce diversity and offer a guaranteed interview to applicants who meet the essential criteria and either have a disability or are from a diverse ethnic community.

If this applies to you, you can request consideration under this scheme during the application process. Your request will be shared only with the Hiring Manager and Internal Recruitment Team.

We also aim to make our recruitment process inclusive and accessible. If you need reasonable adjustments or have any general enquiries at any stage or the recruitment process, please contact or call us on

Examples include:

• Meeting the hiring manager or touring the venue in advance
• Extra time for tasks
• Interview questions shared beforehand
• Accessibility software or equipment for assessments

We're proud to support the Ban the Box campaign, which helps people with convictions access job opportunities. As part of this, we've removed questions about convictions from the initial application stage.

GC is committed to fostering a culture of flexibility and agile working. Many roles will increasingly support full agile arrangements. If you require more permanent flexibility, we encourage you to discuss this during your interview so your request can be considered early in the process.

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