Justice Case Worker

**Location**

Sheffield

**Company**

Employment

**Contract type**

Permanent/ Full
- time

**Salary**

Up to £27,500 per annum

**Closing Date**

30/06/2025

**Ref No**

4269

The Growth Company's (GC) Justice Services are looking for a Justice Case Worker to deliver rehabilitation and Employment Training and Education support for individuals and groups within our Creating Future Opportunities (CFO) Evolution Programme within our Community Activity Hub.

You will be dual trained as a Support Worker and Activity Facilitator, providing advice, guidance, coaching, mentoring and support to a caseload of participants via regular 1:1 meetings and group interventions as appropriate.

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 and debt.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Assess individual learning needs and formulate tailored action plans.
- Design and deliver bespoke training sessions and targeted interventions for each participant.
- Build strong, supportive relationships through consistent and meaningful interaction.
- Guide participants in accessing and effectively utilising relevant information and resources.
- Accurately document all interventions, participant activities, and progress using the CRM system; coordinate subsequent actions with internal teams and external stakeholders.
- Provide ongoing support to help participants implement their personal development plans.
- Deliver additional one-to-one interventions as needed, offering guidance on pathways and empowering individuals to make informed choices.
- Create and maintain engaging learning materials to enhance participant development.
- Facilitate group-based learning activities to boost communication skills, social confidence, and employability through interactive workshops and presentations.
- Identify suitable job opportunities and actively broker matches between participants and potential employers.

**About You**:

- Working with offenders, or those disaffected and marginalised from mainstream services, in training, guidance, advice and counselling environments.
- Have strong interpersonal, communication and negotiation skills.
- Ability to work in a target-driven environment, with a focus on the successful achievement of outcomes for participants.
- 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.
- Knowledge of National Probation Services or HM Prison environments and/or training, education, and employment opportunities locally and nationally, and of training and guidance.
- Strong interpersonal, communication and negotiation skills.

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.

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

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.