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A community service organization is seeking a dedicated Operations Practitioner to work with prisoners in London. This role focuses on delivering interventions to deter gang involvement and provides extensive training and career development opportunities. The ideal candidate will have experience in the gangs and youth violence sector and demonstrate the ability to engage effectively with diverse service users.
Company Description
Catch22 exists to help build a society where everyone has a good place to live, good people around them, and a fulfilling purpose. We call these our '3Ps'.
In Justice, we work with young people and adults in custody and in the community, providing a range of services including offender management and resettlement,mentoring, victim services, gangs work and youth justice.We believe that with effective support mechanisms and the correct interventions, we can change service user’s ideology, helping them desist from crime and reach their true potential.
Catch22’s Gangs Service was introduced in HMP Thameside in April 2013 to reduce the risk posed by gang-involved prisoners. Run by professionals with an extensive knowledge and understanding of gang culture, the service aims to capitalise on the ‘teachable moments’ prompted by prison sentences to encourage people to leave gang lifestyles behind. Specifically, the service targets coping and communication skills, and identifies positive educational and employment opportunities for people to pursue on release.
Want to be part of an organisation who is committed to the development and progression of their staff? As of September 2022, 73% of our management group have progressed fromfrontline roles within Catch22, which allows us to offer progression opportunities for staff under the leadershipof managers with frontline experience.
Job DescriptionYou will be working in close partnership with the prison, criminal justice, health, education and voluntary sector services to promote and deliver our services and achieve the required outputs and outcomes.
Your main duties and responsibilities will include:
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QualificationsAwareness of the needs of young adults, knowledge of gangs and gang violence and an understanding of the reasons why individuals may become involved in gangs.
Qualities of aGoodcandidate forthis role:
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This role is subject to an Enhanced DBS and MoJ prison security vetting.
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