Community Payback Supervisor

Ministry of Justice; Knowsley; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Part time

Job summary

A government agency is seeking a part-time Community Payback Supervisor in Knowsley to lead and motivate groups of offenders in fulfilling community service tasks. The role requires empathy, leadership skills, and a full UK Manual Driving Licence. The supervisor will oversee tasks like cleaning public spaces and maintaining community facilities. With a starting salary of £26,475 pro-rata, this position offers opportunities to make a positive impact in the community while working weekends.

Qualifications

• Must hold a full UK Manual Driving Licence.
• Experience in supervising individuals is preferred.
• Ability to motivate and lead small teams.

Responsibilities

• Supervise work groups of offenders carrying out community service tasks.
• Motivate offenders to complete various manual tasks.
• Drive service vehicles if necessary.

Skills

Empathy

Good communication

Leadership

Job description

Please note: This vacancy is for a Part‑Time role – 22.2 hour per week (Sunday – Tuesday).

Please note: 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.

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, Pro‑Rata.

Please note: Community Payback Supervisors will be expected to work weekends as part of their normal working pattern. You will be paid a higher rate of 50 % for weekend days you do work.

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.

For further information on the summary, responsibilities, activities, duties of the role and the Civil Service Success Profile Criteria which will be used in the assessment process, please refer to the full Job Description Attachment.

About us

The work is varied, challenging and meaningful and comes with job security, great benefits and career progression opportunities – not to mention the chance to make a real difference to people’s lives and our communities.

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About the role

Community Payback Supervisors will work with a diverse mix of individuals, so it’s important that you’re empathetic, a good communicator and happy to take the lead.

It’s all about supporting offenders 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 people.

As a Community Payback supervisor, you’ll be at the heart of this work, leading small teams to complete their unpaid work hours.

You’ll supervise and motivate them to complete a range of manual tasks to pay back for the harm they’ve 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, you’ll 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:

• Work frequent weekends.
• May be asked to cover some evenings and be paid a higher rate for any evening and 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 really matters to us, so we want to be open about this from the outset. If you’re someone who enjoys a varied, active role where no two days are the same, this is a great environment to make a real difference while being fully supported.