12819 - Community Payback Supervisor - Advance into Justice - National

Ministry of Justice; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 27,000; Full time

Job summary

A UK government agency is seeking a Community Payback Supervisor to oversee service users completing community service. The role requires a full UK Manual Driving Licence and involves conducting safety briefings, ensuring compliance with health and safety protocols, and assisting in various community projects. Successful candidates will have the opportunity to contribute positively to their communities and support rehabilitative efforts. This is a 24-month fixed-term role with a starting salary of £26,475.

Qualifications

• Must hold a full UK Manual Driving License.
• Ability to motivate and supervise service users is essential.
• Experience in community service or rehabilitation is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Supervise service users performing community service.
• Conduct safety briefings and ensure compliance with health and safety regulations.
• Engage in work alongside service users to demonstrate processes.

Skills

Driving skills

Communication skills

Ability to supervise

Education

Full UK Manual Driving Licence

Job description

Applicants must meet the Advance into Justice scheme eligibility criteria:

• An Armed Forces service leaver within your resettlement period and due to leave the services within 18 months
• A veteran of the Armed Forces
• A spouse or civil partner of an Armed Forces service leaver or veteran (your current partner must either be still serving or have been discharged within the last 12 months)
• An Armed Forces Reservist

This is a Fixed Term role for 24 months.

Candidates must hold a full UK Manual Driving Licence when applying for this role; this is a mandatory technical requirement in order to carry out this role. We cannot accept candidates who hold an automatic driving licence only.

We have job opportunities across England and Wales. You will get the opportunity to provide your location preference if you pass all the assessment stages.

A career in community payback gives you the power to make a positive impact on the lives of People on Probation as well as your community. People come from all walks of life to form one team in the Probation Service.

It’s all about supporting People on Probation on their journey and making your community a better place. Whether that’s building benches or cleaning the streets, you’re there because you genuinely want to help.

If this sounds like you, apply now.

If you are successful in the recruitment process to join the Probation Service, your starting salary will be £26,475.

Work Pattern and Pay

Community Payback Supervisors will be expected to work weekends as part of their normal working pattern. You will be paid a higher rate for weekend days you do work.

Post holders may be required to undertake weekend working as part of their normal pattern of working.

The Probation Service offers the opportunity for annual pay progression through a Competency Based Framework (CBF), which if eligible, will see your pay increase. CBF is designed to enable you to move up through the pay band range as your competence grows.

New entrants are expected to join on the minimum of the pay band. Probation Service also increases their pay band ranges annually in line with Civil Service Pay guidance, which will also apply an increase to band pay ranges where applicable.

Overview of the job

This is an operational role directly supervising work groups of offenders serving a community sentence. This may include driving service vehicles to transport people or equipment. The post holder will be responsible for all work site supervision tasks and will work with service users to ensure that all tasks are carried out to the best of their ability. This will include working alongside people to demonstrate good practice as necessary.

Summary

The post holder will work on varied projects that involve practical tasks that should be seen by the public as a credible punishment providing reparation to the community. The post holder will exercise appropriate authority to maintain discipline and good behaviour within working groups, alerting the relevant staff to any infringement of discipline or behaviour.

The post holder will contribute towards the rehabilitative potential of the sentence and will support some service users to gain employment skills through a positive work experience with the opportunity to gain vocational or skills‑based training.

Staff are expected to contribute towards review and evaluation of all aspects of service delivery and to contribute towards a culture of continuous improvement.

Post holders may be required to undertake weekend working as part of their normal pattern of working. The work may involve working alongside volunteers or staff from partner organisations.

Responsibilities, Activities & Duties

• Conduct Pre‑Placement Unpaid Work Induction sessions.
• Conduct a start‑of‑the‑day ‘tool box’ talk to ensure all service users understand the task at hand and safe working practice and to motivate and support service users to complete their Order.
• Follow work directions within the project placement file.
• Ensure Health & Safety procedures are followed, alerting the relevant staff to any risk, ensuring that any associated paperwork is completed accurately and on time as required, including contributing to the review of placement risk assessments.
• Ensure that appropriate tools, equipment and supplies are available in accordance with local procedure and that instructions for safe use are followed by service users.
• Conduct a dynamic risk assessment to ensure all hazards are noted and managed.
• Use pro‑social and other motivational techniques to ensure that service users complete the work assigned in a disciplined and well‑behaved manner.
• Monitor the attendance of service users allocated to agency placements and promote successful completions.
• Maintain all service users’ records in accordance with organisational requirements ensuring that all information is updated onto the case management system in a timely and accurate manner.
• Work towards accreditation as a workplace assessor or deliver training assessments for selected service users within the supervised work group to provide enhanced learning opportunities.
• Contribute towards promoting Community Payback with colleagues, external agencies, Sentencers and the public.

In line with PS policies and procedures, the job holder must at all times demonstrate a commitment to equality and inclusion and an understanding of their relevance to the work they do. The post holder must adhere to all policies in respect of the sensitive/ confidential nature of the information handled whilst working in this position.