Wing Facilitator - Prisons
Permanent – Full time
Humberside/Hull
£27,500 + Benefits

To provide one-to-one and group work support for participants to deliver a range of information, 
guidance and training that contributes to participants’ journey and progression into employment, 
training, education, and a life free from crime.

Key Responsibilities:
To engage with and case manage participants to provide advocacy, mentoring, advice and guidance and training interventions that meet the needs of individual participants and support the achievement of skills and progression towards education training and sustained employment.
Establish and deliver both group and one-to-one activities as part of participant interventions, including initial assessments and action plans. Engage with community, voluntary sector and mainstream ETE support and services to ensure that participants are given the support they need to overcome barriers and progress. Increase community links and resilience so that participants can progress to a life free from crime. Contribute to making contact and establishing relationships with new participants and assist them to understand the benefits and the support activities and interventions that are on offer.
Deliver services, both within areas of the community and voluntary sector venues, to ensure that the service is available across a wider area. Deliver both group and one-to-one intervention(s) following induction and assessment: 
Identify individual learning needs and create action plans.
Plan training and other interventions for each participant.
Develop interaction with participants and establish a rapport and supportive relationship.
Enable participants to access and use information. 
Record interventions and activities and progression on the CRM system and coordinate further activity with customers. 
Provide support for the participant to implement future courses of action. 
Deliver further interventions with participants as required, assisting them to decide on options for meeting their needs and provide support for participants in planning a course of action.
Prepare and develop resources to support learning. 
Facilitate learning in groups to improve communication and social interaction and to improve employability and progression through presentations and activities.
Job-match and job-broker into employment opportunities.
Seek ways to continuously improve the service and own performance and report to managers on this.
Networking, marketing and promotion of the service to partner organisations and participants.
Update MI (CRM) systems as required. 
Carry out associated administration work, including report-writing, collection, and analysis of 
management information, evaluation of service delivery and the auditing and review of records. 
Participate in other activities that support the work of the group.

Customers include: 
• Offenders on licence following release from custody, and those on community sentences
• Probation Service (Offender Managers / responsible officers)
• Community and voluntary sector organisations
• Employers
• Specialist providers
• Colleagues within the Growth Company. 
There are no line management or budget responsibilities directly associated with this role. 

Essential Skills:
• Information Advice and Guidance and / or teaching qualifications, (or equivalent), desired, but experience working intensively with individuals and supporting their progression most important.

Key Skills:
• 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.

Experience:
• Working with offenders, or those disaffected and marginalised from mainstream services, in 
training, guidance, advice and counselling environments.
 
Knowledge:
• 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
Personal Style:
• 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.
• Ability to understand, demonstrate and apply the company values: 

Benefits:
25 days holiday + 8 Bank Holiday.
Purchase up to 10 extra days annual leave.
2 volunteering days paid.
12 month Sabbatical options.
Travel subsidiaries.
Employee Recognition.
Discounts and Cashback.
Learning & Development opportunities.
Optical & Eye care insurance.
Discounted private medical insurance + Health Care Cash Plans.
Health and Wellbeing – Discounts on gym memberships, mindfulness, yoga classes.
Work – life balance.
Employee assistance programme.
Enhanced Maternity, adoption, sick pay.
Group life insurance.
Pension – 6% employer contribution.
Dress for your day.
Flexi time.
Agile options.
Childcare vouchers/government scheme.
Social events.
Performance and annual salary reviews.
Career progression.
Plus so much more………………


Due to the nature of this role, you will be required to complete an online Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.

If this sounds like the perfect role for you then please submit your CV.

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