Location HMP Moorland, Doncaster
Company Employment
Contract type Permanent/ Full- time
Salary Up to £27,500 per annum
Closing Date 30/04/2025
Ref No 4141
The Growth Company's (GC) Justice Services is thrilled to offer an exciting opportunity for a Group Delivery/ Trainer within our Creating Future Opportunities (CFO) Evolution Programme. This role involves providing advice, guidance, coaching, mentoring, and support to participants through regular one-on-one meetings and group interventions. The aim is to help hard-to-reach individuals prepare for engagement with core prison services and their eventual release.
We are dedicated to making a lasting impact on the lives of people throughout the North of England and beyond by supporting individuals in gaining meaningful employment. Our highly skilled advisers and keyworkers work with a diverse range of individuals, from those who have recently become unemployed to those facing complex barriers such as physical disabilities, mental health issues, and debt.
Key Responsibilities:
- Resettlement Support: Provide continuous resettlement support to participants.
- Engagement and Case Management: Engage and case manage participants on the CFO Evolution Wing.
- Group Sessions: Establish and deliver high-quality, engaging group sessions as outlined in the Phase 1 CFO Wing timetable to encourage attendance and completion of actions and activities.
- Progress Monitoring: Monitor and track participants' progress, including through reviews, to ensure high attendance, achievement rates, and progression.
- Feedback and Development: Provide participants with structured feedback and set development objectives.
- Relationship Building: Develop strong relationships with HMPPS and other agencies offering ongoing and pre-release support.
About You:
- Work Environment: Experience working with offenders or individuals marginalised from mainstream services in training, guidance, advice, and counselling settings is highly desirable.
- Guidance Skills: Proficiency in delivering high-quality one-to-one and group sessions, meeting at least Grade 2 standards.
- Interpersonal Skills: A warm, approachable, and empathetic style, with the ability to establish rapport and build relationships that support participants' progression to education, training, and employment, and facilitate desistance from crime.
Skills Required:
- Qualifications: Information Advice and Guidance and/or teaching qualifications (or equivalent) are preferred.
- Experience: Extensive experience working closely with individuals to support their progression is crucial.
- Rehabilitation and Desistance: Understanding of issues affecting offender rehabilitation and desistance theory.
- Work Environment: Experience working with offenders or individuals marginalized from mainstream services in training, guidance, advice, and counselling settings is desirable.
- Sector Knowledge: Familiarity with National Probation Services or HM Prison environments, as well as local and national training, education, and employment opportunities.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of everyone including vulnerable adults and young people, we expect all staff to share this commitment. All appointments will be subject to Safer Recruitment Procedures which include a DBS check. This will be conducted by Due Diligence Limited (DDC Ltd) on behalf of GC. Please note that the successful candidate will not be required to pay for this.
If you are on the Barred List, it is against the law to apply and to be hired for a role that includes regulated activity with the concerned group.
We are committed to increasing the diversity of our workforce, we provide a guaranteed interview to applicants who meet the essential requirements for a role. This commitment applies to candidates who have a disability or are from a diverse ethnic community.
As part of our application process, you can ask to be considered under this scheme if you are from an ethnic community or have a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term negative effect on your ability to do normal daily activities. Providing that you meet the essential criteria for the role, you will then be invited for an interview. Your guaranteed interview application will only be shared with the Hiring Manager and our Internal Recruitment Team.
We are a member of the national campaign Ban the Box; this campaign aims to open opportunities for people with convictions to compete for jobs. We’re supporting the campaign by removing conviction questions at the applications stage.
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.
If you require support with the recruitment process, please contact or Internal Recruitment Team at careers@growthco.uk or call us on 0161 237 4447.
All GC colleagues will work inline with the Health & Safety at work act and the GC Health & Safety Policy.
