CFO Evolution - Support Worker - (Bournemouth)

Seetec; Lower Blandford St Mary; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 29,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave + Bank Holidays +

Birthday Day off (with the opportunity

2 Volunteer Days

Pension - 5% Employee 5% Employer

Healthcare Cash Plan, incl. 3 x salary

Annual salary pay review

Refer a friend scheme

Benefit Hub access

Job summary

Seetec is seeking a dedicated Support Worker for the CFO Evolution programme, a long-term fixed-term contract ending in 2028. You will assess participants, deliver tailored interventions, and support risk management within custodial and community settings, with travel across the designated cluster.

The role emphasizes safeguarding, successful release preparation, and collaboration with peer mentors, prison staff, and external partners to enable housing, healthcare, and social services access.

Qualifications

• Resilience and focus in fast-paced environments.
• Ability to engage individuals with complex needs.
• Strong time management and planning skills.
• Excellent communication, verbal and written.
• Proven ability to build stakeholder relationships.
• Motivation and persistence to support positive change.
• Analytical thinking to interpret data and progress.
• Self-motivated with initiative and teamwork.

Responsibilities

• Manage a caseload across custody and community settings.
• Deliver one-to-one and group interventions to engage participants.
• Complete pre-release and Through the Gate support, with action plans and progress reviews.
• Maintain high-quality records to meet contractual requirements.
• Safeguard adults and children by reporting risks per procedures.
• Support access to housing, mental health, substance misuse and healthcare services.
• Travel across the prison cluster for service delivery and meetings.
• Collaborate with peers, prison staff and external partners.
• Meet performance targets while contributing to team outcomes.
• Adhere to safeguarding, equality, diversity and IT policies.

Job description

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CFO Evolution - Support Worker - (Bournemouth)

Job Role

We’re hiring a Support Worker (Peripatetic) to join the CFO Evolution programme on a long term Fixed Term Contract until the end of 2028. In this role, you will carry out effective assessments, deliver tailored interventions, and build strong relationships with stakeholders within custodial settings. Your primary focus will be to support participants in identifying and addressing their individual needs, with the aim of reducing their risk of reoffending.

You’ll manage a caseload and provide coordinated oversight of risk, with a strong emphasis on safeguarding. This includes promptly reporting any changes in individual risk to the Probation Service and adhering to established policies, procedures, and systems to ensure effective risk management.

From initial engagement and assessment, you will offer motivational support and guidance throughout participants’ sentences. You’ll deliver both one-to-one and group interventions to help individuals overcome barriers to reintegration. A key part of the role involves preparing participants for release, ensuring a smooth and well-supported transition back into the community.

The role will require you to work closely with peer mentors and volunteers to support caseload management and connect participants with vital services such as housing, substance misuse support, and physical and mental healthcare. Due to the peripatetic nature of this role, regular travel across the designated cluster is required for caseload management, service delivery, and attending internal and external meetings.

We believe that lived experience can be just as valuable as professional experience. We actively encourage applications from people who have personal experience of overcoming challenges linked to the criminal justice system, social care, probation services, mental health, recovery, homelessness, substance misuse, or other complex life circumstances.

In return for your dedication, knowledge, and commitment, we’re offering a competitive salary range £26,000 up to £29,000 p.a. (dependent on experience) with these great benefits:

• 25 days annual leave + Bank Holidays + Birthday Day off (with the opportunity to buy an additional 5 days)
• 2 Volunteer Days
• Pension - 5% Employee 5% Employer
• Healthcare Cash Plan, incl. 3 x salary life assurance
• Annual salary pay review
• Refer a friend scheme
• Free access to Benefit Hub - an online portal with access to a wide range of retail discounts, cycle to work scheme, and additional voluntary benefits

Communities is part of an employee-owned organisation and we continually pride ourselves on our sense of community, both in the incredible work we do throughout UK and Ireland. People are at the front, centre and heart of every service we provide and each decision we make.

Location: HMP Erlestoke / Bournemouth Community
Contact: Fixed Term Contract - December 2028
Hours: 37 hours a week. Monday to Friday 8.30 am to 5.00pm
Closing date: 21 October 2026

Key Responsibilities

Manage a caseload of participants across both custody and community settings.

Deliver one-to-one and group interventions, providing motivational support and guidance to encourage engagement and positive outcomes.

Complete pre-release and Through the Gate support, including assessments, action plans, progress reviews and release preparation.

Build positive relationships that help participants overcome barriers and reduce their risk of reoffending.Maintain accurate, timely and high-quality records to meet contractual, operational and compliance requirements.

Safeguard adults and children by identifying, managing and reporting risks in line with organisational and Probation Service procedures.

Support participants to access services such as housing, mental health support, substance misuse services and healthcare.

Work collaboratively with peer mentors, volunteers, prison staff and external partners to deliver coordinated support.

Meet individual performance targets while contributing to wider team objectives and service outcomes.

Travel across the allocated prison cluster to deliver services, manage caseloads and attend internal and external meetings.

• Adhere to the company’s policies and procedures always, including safeguarding, equality, diversity and inclusion, quality, health and safety and IT.
• To undertake any other duties, as required, appropriate to the post.

Skills and Experience

• Resilience and focus in fast-paced, constantly evolving environments.
• Efficiency and effectiveness in meeting targets and contractual obligations within set timescales and available resources.
• Skill in engaging individuals with complex needs and disadvantaged backgrounds.
• Capacity to motivate and maintain engagement, supporting individuals through positive change.
• Strong time management, planning, and organisational skills, with the capability to manage multiple activities and deliver outcomes.
• Excellent communication skill verbal, non-verbal, and written with the confidence to engage with people at all levels and in diverse settings.
• Proven ability to build and maintain stakeholder relationships, including influencing and negotiating where necessary.
• Problem-solving mindset, with a proactive approach to overcoming barriers.
• Team-oriented approach, contributing to shared goals, supporting colleagues, and leveraging team strengths.
• High levels of initiative and self-motivation.
• Sound judgement and decision making skills, with the ability to make clear, accurate, and defensible choices.
• Analytical thinking, including the ability to research, interpret, and draw insights from data.

Additional Information

Seetec is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share and uphold this commitment in conjunction with the requirements of the Prevent Duty and the positive promotion of modern British values.

You will be required to process a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. Seetec support the recruitment of ex- offenders and will not discriminate in anyway. Our full policy statement of “Ex-Offenders” can be found on our website under“ About us”.

Seetec is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.

Our Communities division is an employee-owned organisation and we continually pride ourselves on our sense of community, both in the incredible work we do throughout UK and Ireland. People are at the front, centre and heart of every service we provide and each decision we make.