CFO Peripatetic Support Worker - Through the gate

Shaw Trust; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading support organization is seeking a Through the Gate Support Worker for a home-based position. This role involves providing support to participants transitioning from prison, facilitating meetings, and ensuring effective engagement with support services. The successful candidate will have strong communication skills. Benefits include generous leave, pension schemes, and opportunities for professional development.

Benefits

25 days annual leave with incremental increases

2 days paid volunteering leave

Enhanced pension scheme

Life Assurance at 3 times your annual salary

Learning and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in support work, preferably in a relevant field.
• Ability to engage with participants and support them effectively.
• Strong communication skills, both face-to-face and through video conferencing/telephone.

Responsibilities

• Provide support to participants upon their release.
• Facilitate three-way handover meetings with custody support workers.
• Act as a single point of contact for participants.

Job description

Overview

Shaw Trust promotes team spirit and inclusiveness, and is an organisation where everybody is somebody. Shaw Trust believes everyone has the right to live a decent and dignified life and an opportunity for rewarding work. The organisation challenges inequality and breaks down barriers to enable social mobility, advocates and delivers services that make a real difference, and works in partnership to create a fairer, more equal society centred on opportunity for all.

Purpose

The Through the Gate Support Worker position is home-based, with participant-facing duties in prisons, hubs and probation offices across the region as required. The role provides 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 (face-to-face, video conferencing or telephone). They will act as a single point of contact when participants are released to liaise and/or facilitate the TTG initial meeting and ensure engagement with support workers accordingly.

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Location

You will be home based

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: https://www.shawtrust.org.uk/content/uploads/2020/09/Vision-2030-Strategic-Directive-5-9.pdf

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.

If you have accessibility requirements and/or would like further information about the role, please contact: [e-mail]

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

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