Employment Advisor/Support Worker - Justice Service

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Employment Advisor/Support Worker - Justice Service, Preston

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Client:

The Growth Company

Location:

Preston, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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EU work permit required:

Yes

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Job Reference:

99b7792504ea

Job Views:

7

Posted:

26.04.2025

Expiry Date:

10.06.2025

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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 health issues, 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 enhance employability and progression through presentations and activities.
• Job-match and job-broker into employment opportunities.

About You:

• Experience working with offenders or disaffected and marginalized individuals in training, guidance, advice, and counseling environments.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and negotiation skills.
• Ability to work in a target-driven environment, focusing on successful outcomes for participants.
• High-level guidance skills, capable of delivering one-to-one and group sessions to at least Grade 2 standard.
• A warm, approachable, empathetic style with the ability to build rapport and support participants' progression to education, training, and employment, facilitating desistance from crime.

Skills Required:

• Information Advice and Guidance and/or teaching qualifications (or equivalent), with experience supporting individual progression being most important.
• Knowledge of issues affecting offender rehabilitation and desistance theory.
• Knowledge of National Probation Services or HM Prison environments, and local and national training, education, and employment opportunities.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and negotiation skills.

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

If you are on the Barred List, it is against the law to apply for roles involving regulated activity with the concerned group.

We aim to increase workforce diversity and provide a guaranteed interview to applicants who meet essential requirements, including candidates with disabilities or from diverse ethnic backgrounds.

You can request consideration under this scheme if you are from an ethnic community or have a long-term impairment affecting daily activities. If you meet the criteria, you will be invited for an interview. Your guaranteed interview application will be shared only with the Hiring Manager and our Internal Recruitment Team.

We support the Ban the Box campaign, removing conviction questions at the application stage to open opportunities for people with convictions.

GC promotes a culture of flexibility and agile working, with many roles transitioning to full agile working. We encourage discussions about flexible working arrangements during interviews to consider your needs early.