CFO Evolution Support Worker - HMP Elmley

Shaw Trust; Eastchurch; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 27,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Enhanced pension scheme

Life Assurance

Learning and development opportunities

Flexible working from day one

Job summary

Shaw Trust in the East of England and Southeast of England is recruiting for a CFO Support Worker. You will manage a caseload of participants in custody and community settings, providing high quality support and guidance to help them overcome barriers to resettlement and achieve milestones.

You will undergo enhanced vetting checks and work across locations including HMP Elmley and Canterbury Probation, with opportunities for learning and development and flexible working from day one.

Qualifications

• Manage a caseload of participants in custody and community settings.
• Provide high quality support and guidance to help participants overcome barriers to resettlement.
• Assist participants to achieve milestones and access sustainable employment.

Responsibilities

• Manage participants in custody and community settings.
• Provide support and guidance to help participants overcome barriers to resettlement.
• Assist participants to develop skills and work toward agreed milestones.

Job description

Shaw Trust promotes team spirit, inclusiveness and it is an organisation where everybody is somebody. I am proud to be part of this great organisation.

At Shaw Trust we believe everyone has the right to live a decent and dignified life and an opportunity for rewarding work. We are a social purpose organisation challenging inequality and breaking down barriers to enable social mobility.

For us being part of the solution is about creating the conditions for this to happen, advocating and delivering services that make a real difference. Working in partnership not competition, we are part of an eco-system of purpose-led organisations, striving for a fairer, more equal society centred on opportunity for all.

Purpose

At Shaw Trust we help give people with a criminal record the opportunity for a second chance providing services to support them in custody and in the community. We provide people with the skills, knowledge, and a sense of purpose, for life after custody, significantly reducing the likelihood of reoffending. We support at each stage of the journey providing people with safe and supportive spaces to engage in positive activities and move toward integrating back into society.

We will be delivering the HMPPS Creating Future Opportunities (CFO) programme in the East of England and Southeast of England.

We are recruiting for people to join our teams in the role of CFO Support Worker. In this role you will manage a caseload of participants in both custodial and community settings, providing high quality support and guidance. You will help participants overcome barriers to successful resettlement, achieve agreed milestones, develop skills, and find sustainable employment.

You will undergo enhanced vetting checks.

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Location

In this role you will work across different locations in custody and within community hubs. The locations are HMP Elmley and Canterbury Probation.

Employee Benefits

• 25 days annual leave per year (plus bank holidays), with incremental increases post 3 years' service up to 28 days, and the option to purchase additional holiday
• 2 days paid volunteering leave each year
• An enhanced pension scheme after 6 months
• Life Assurance at 3 times your annual salary rate
• Access to a suite of learning and development opportunities including paid for apprenticeship and masters' levels qualifications, and management development programmes
• Opportunities to connect with our employee diversity networks (LGBTQ+ Support Network, Racial Equality Network, Disability Equality Network, Neurodiversity Peer Support Network, Women's Network, MANaging Network, Menopause Network Group)
• Health and Wellbeing initiatives including internal support, employee assistance programme and health cash plan
• Opportunity to request flexible working from day one

Our Strategy

To find out more about Shaw Trusts aims in our 2030 Strategic Directive available here: url removed

Join a diverse and inclusive organisation

Shaw Trust is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive working environment, where every employee, regardless of their background or lived experience, feels that they belong and can progress in their career.

In addition;

• We are proud to be certified as an employer who meets the National Equality Standard, the accepted standard for inclusiveness in business across the UK.
• We are Disability Confident Leaders, support the guaranteed interview scheme and use of the government's Access to Work scheme.
• Living our values, we are keen to reflect the diversity of UK society at every level within our organisation.

We welcome applications from all sections of the community including from people with lived experience and/or knowledge of disability or social exclusion.

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Shaw Trust reserve the right to close this vacancy early if sufficient applications are received.