Prison Group Facilitator — Rehabilitative Programs & Training

Ministry of Justice; Whatton-in-the-Vale; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a Group Worker to deliver rehabilitation programmes in a prison setting and sometimes across East Midlands sites. You will run group and individual sessions, organise materials, and plan sessions to meet participant needs.

The role emphasises motivational interviewing, ongoing engagement, and accurate record-keeping, with full training and career development support provided.

Qualifications

• Excellent skills in dealing with people.
• Full training will be provided.

Responsibilities

• Deliver programmes in a group or individual basis, following a manual and delivering as designed.
• Organise materials for session delivery.
• Plan sessions as per the programme requirements and identify ways to deliver the sessions to meet participant needs.
• Notify the Treatment Managers and other team members when sessions are unable to run and catch up on missed sessions.
• Identify and recruit future programme participants, complete assessments and screening tools with an accurate outcomes database.
• Maintain accurate records of assessments and contact with prisoners.
• Conduct motivational interviews with prisoners to engage them in programmes.
• Continually motivate and engage current and past participants.
• Complete post session de-briefs and record key information from the sessions.
• Complete post-programme tasks including writing a progress record, setting objectives, and communicating progress with sentence management team for each participant.
• Actively engage in sentence management by liaising with prison and community Offender Managers.
• Work towards the delivery guidelines outlined within the quality assurance framework, supported by management.
• Engage in supervision provided by treatment and programme management teams.
• Participate in continual professional development opportunities.
• Deliver awareness packages to other staff in the establishment.

Job description

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a Group Worker to deliver rehabilitation programmes in a prison setting and sometimes across East Midlands sites. You will run group and individual sessions, organise materials, and plan sessions to meet participant needs.

The role emphasises motivational interviewing, ongoing engagement, and accurate record-keeping, with full training and career development support provided.