Employment Advisor / Support Worker - Justice Service

TN United Kingdom; Blackpool; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking dedicated Support Workers to join their Justice Services team in Blackpool. This role focuses on delivering rehabilitation and employment training to individuals facing various challenges. You will provide personalized guidance and support, helping participants develop skills and access opportunities for meaningful employment. With a commitment to making a difference in the lives of others, you will work in a dynamic environment that values flexibility and diversity. If you are passionate about empowering individuals and fostering positive change, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Experience working with offenders or marginalized individuals.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Identify individual learning needs and create action plans.
• Provide support for participants to implement future courses of action.
• Facilitate learning in groups to improve employability.

Skills

Information Advice and Guidance

Teaching Qualifications

Knowledge of Rehabilitation Issues

Interpersonal Skills

Communication Skills

Negotiation Skills

Education

Teaching Qualification or Equivalent

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Employment Advisor / Support Worker - Justice Service, Blackpool

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Client:

The Growth Company

Location:

Blackpool, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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EU work permit required:

Yes

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Posted:

05.05.2025

Expiry Date:

19.06.2025

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Job Description:

The Growth Company's (GC) Justice Services are looking for Support Workers to deliver rehabilitation and Employment Training and Education support for individuals and groups within our Creating Future Opportunities (CFO) Evolution Programme.

You will be dual trained as a Support Worker and Activity Facilitator, providing advice, guidance, coaching, mentoring, and support to a caseload of participants via regular 1:1 meetings and group interventions as appropriate.

We help to make a lasting difference to the lives of people throughout the North of England and beyond, by supporting individuals to gain meaningful employment.

Our highly skilled advisers and keyworkers work with a range of individuals; from people who have recently become unemployed to those with complex barriers such as physical disabilities, mental ill-health, and debt.

Key Responsibilities:

• Identify individual learning needs and create action plans.
• Plan training and other interventions for each participant.
• Develop interaction with participants and establish a rapport and supportive relationship.
• Enable participants to access and use information.

Record interventions and activities and progression on the CRM system and coordinate further activity with customers.

• Provide support for the participant to implement future courses of action.
• Deliver further interventions with participants as required, assisting them to decide on options for meeting their needs and provide support for participants in planning a course of action.
• Prepare and develop resources to support learning.
• Facilitate learning in groups to improve communication and social interaction and to improve employability and progression through presentations and activities.
• Job-match and job-broker into employment opportunities.

About You:

• Experience working with offenders, or those disaffected and marginalized from mainstream services, in training, guidance, advice, and counseling environments.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and negotiation skills.
• Ability to work in a target-driven environment, with a focus on successful outcomes for participants.
• High-level guidance skills, with the ability to deliver one-to-one and group sessions to at least Grade 2 standard.
• A warm, approachable, empathetic style and the ability to establish rapport and build relationships with participants that support their progression to education, training, and employment, and facilitate desistance from crime.

Skills Required:

• Information Advice and Guidance and/or teaching qualifications, (or equivalent), desired, but experience working intensively with individuals and supporting their progression is most important.
• Knowledge regarding the issues affecting the rehabilitation of offenders, and desistance theory.
• Knowledge of National Probation Services or HM Prison environments and/or training, education, and employment opportunities locally and nationally, and of training and guidance.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and negotiation skills.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of everyone including vulnerable adults and young people. We expect all staff to share this commitment. All Education and Skills appointments will be subject to Safer Recruitment Procedures, including a DBS check and a professional social media check. These checks will be conducted by Due Diligence Limited (DDC Ltd) on behalf of GC. The successful candidate will not be required to pay for this.

If you are on the Barred List, it is against the law to apply and to be hired for a role that includes regulated activity with the concerned group.

We are committed to increasing the diversity of our workforce and provide a guaranteed interview to applicants who meet the essential requirements for a role. This applies to candidates who have a disability or are from a diverse ethnic community.

As part of our application process, you can ask to be considered under this scheme if you are from an ethnic community or have a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term negative effect on your ability to do normal daily activities. If you meet the essential criteria, you will be invited for an interview. Your guaranteed interview application will only be shared with the Hiring Manager and our Internal Recruitment Team.

We are a member of the national campaign Ban the Box, which aims to open opportunities for people with convictions to compete for jobs. We support the campaign by removing conviction questions at the application stage.

GC aims to promote a culture of flexibility and agile working. Going forward, we will transition to a culture where full agile working is a feature of many roles. We also recognize the need for flexible working arrangements and encourage discussions about this at the interview stage to consider requests early.