Overview
Please note: This vacancy is for 37 hours per week over 4 days and candidates will be required to work at least one weekend day. One Part-Time position is also available at location: NPS Carraway House Basildon.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- Community Payback Supervisors will work with a diverse mix of individuals, so its important that youre empathetic, a good communicator and happy to take the lead. Its all about supporting offenders on their journey and making your community a better place. Whether thats building benches or cleaning the streets, youre there because you genuinely want to help people.
- As a Community Payback supervisor, youll be at the heart of this work, leading small teams to complete their unpaid work hours. Youll supervise and motivate them to complete a range of manual tasks to pay back for the harm theyve caused. These tasks could include clearing overgrowth to make public spaces safer, restoring community facilities such as sports halls and playgrounds, planting trees or laying flowerbeds, and litter picking and graffiti removal.
- On a typical day, youll spend up to 7 hours supervising a group at a Community Payback unpaid work placement.
- Working pattern: The Community Payback supervisor role is accommodated to people on probation who work or have caring responsibilities. Community Payback projects run 7 days a week; therefore you will be expected to work weekends as part of your normal working pattern. You will be paid a higher rate of 50% for weekend days you do work.
- There may be a chance to work part-time in some regions. You can discuss this at your interview.
- In this role, the pace of our work means that rest breaks don't always happen in the standard way. When this happens, we make sure your wellbeing is looked after. Your wellbeing matters to us, so we want to be open about this from the outset.
Compensation and Benefits
- Starting salary will be £26,475, pro-rata for part-time roles.
Qualifications and Requirements
- Candidates must hold a full UK Manual Driving Licence; this is a mandatory technical requirement. We cannot accept candidates who hold an automatic driving licence only.