Approved Premises Residential Worker

**General Information**:

- Salary
- £26,475 - £31,650
- Working Pattern
- Full Time, Part Time
- Vacancy Approach
- External
- Location
- Oxford, Reading, Windsor
- Region
- South Central, South West
- Closing Date
- 06-Oct-2025
- Business Unit
- Public Protection South West
- Post Type
- Permanent
- Civil Service Grade
- Other
- Number of jobs available
- 12
- Reserve List
- 12 Months
- Job ID
- 9885

**Descriptions & requirements**:

- Job description

**All of these positions are based in the Approved Premises and not suitable for hybrid working. The interviews will be held Face to Face in Bicester,**OX26 2QD.**

**Vacancies**

Full time Residential Worker and part time Annualised Hours Working Patterns available

**Approved Premises - Residential Worker**

Helping to keep the public safe. Giving people the chance to turn their lives around. Building a rewarding professional career. It’s an extraordinary role. T are many reasons to join the Probation Service. What will yours be?

**About Approved Premises**

Approved Premises are primarily for offenders who have been released on licence and who require a high level of supervision.

**About the role**

As a residential worker in an Approved Premises, you will play a crucial role in supporting the management of offenders in their transition from custody into the community, to achieve successful resettlement. You will assist with the well-being and supervision of Approved Premises residents, helping them to stick to their license conditions and supporting them to keep themselves and others safe. You will carry out inspections, monitor behaviour and positively engage with residents, working ly with colleagues and partner agencies.

The role will entail working at one main Approved Premise with the requirement to work across additional sites should the need arise.

Residential Workers are required to work regular unsocial hours which attract premium rates of pay in addition to advertised annual salary.
- Monday to Friday: 7pm to 8am premium payment of 30%
- Weekend: 8am Saturday - 8am Monday premium payment of 50%
- Public/Bank Holidays :8am to 8am premium payment of 50%: in addition, time off in lieu for actual hours worked is applicable

**About you**

You do not need a degree for this role. We are much more interested in your personal qualities. Ideally, with experience of working with people who have social or personal difficulties, you will be empathetic, patient, and resilient. A good level of numeracy and literacy is also required as the role involves some report writing.

**About us**

The Probation Service works with offenders who are pre-release or post-release from prison or serving community sentences. Our role is to support their rehabilitation and protect the public. People come from all walks of life to form one team in the Probation Service. Join us and you will be part of a supportive team that thrives on sharing knowledge and expertise.

**Annualised Hours Working Pattern**
- Additional Information

**Working Arrangements & Further Information**

**Benefits**

The MoJ offers a range of benefits:
**Annual Leave**

Annual leave is 25 days on appointment and will increase to 30 days after five years’ service, plus public holidays. Leave for part-time and job share posts will be calculated on a pro-rata basis

**Pension**

Please note: Any current Civil Servant who is a member of the PCSPS, by accepting an offer of employment to the National Probation Services will be opted out of the PCSPS and auto enrolled into the Local Government Pension Scheme.

**Training**

The Ministry of Justice is committed to staff development and offers an extensive range of training and development opportunities.

**Networks**

The opportunity to join employee-run networks that have been established to provide advice and support and to enable the views of employees from minority groups to be expressed direct to senior management. T are currently networks for employees of minority ethnic origin, employees with disabilities, employees with caring responsibilities, women employees, and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender.

**Eligibility**

**Support**
- A range of ‘Family Friendly’ policies such as opportunities to work reduced hours or job share.
- Access to flexible benefits such as voluntary benefits, retail vouchers and discounts on a range of goods and services.
- Paid paternity, adoption and maternity leave.
- Free annual sight tests for employees who use computer screens.

**Working for the Civil Service**

The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles. Should you feel that the recruitment process has breached the recruitment principles you are able to raise a formal complaint in the following order
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**Diversity & Inclusion**

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and inv