CFO Justice Support Worker - Through the gate

Shaw Trust; Slough; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent social purpose organisation in the UK is seeking a Through the Gate Support Worker to provide essential support to individuals transitioning from custody. This home-based role necessitates frequent travel across the South East to facilitate the three-way handover meetings and ensure participant engagement. Offering competitive benefits such as annual leave, enhanced pension, and learning opportunities, this position is ideal for candidates passionate about social mobility and inclusion.

Benefits

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Enhanced pension scheme

Paid volunteering leave

Health and Wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• Experience in supporting individuals facing challenges associated with release from custody.
• Strong communication and liaising abilities with support workers.

Responsibilities

• Provide peripatetic support to participants through the gate.
• Facilitate three-way handover meetings between participants and support workers.

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

Through the Gate Support Worker. The position will be a home-based role, but the expectation is that they are participant facing everyday working in prisons, hubs and probation offices across the region as required. The post holder will provide peripatetic cover across a region supporting participants through the gate. The Through the Gate Support Worker will support the PRI and Through the Gate elements working closely with custody Support Workers to facilitate and complete the three-way handover meetings either by face-to-face, video conferencing or telephone. They would act as a single point of contact for when participants have been released to either liaise and / or facilitate the TTG initial meeting and ensure engagement with support workers accordingly.

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Location

You will be homebased, however as this role requires frequent travel across the South East, you must be based within the South East.

Employee Benefits

As an employee of Shaw Trust as well as positively impacting people's lives, you will have access to the following 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.

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.

If you have accessibility requirements and / or would like further information about the role, please contact : (url removed)

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

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