Prison Rehabilitation Program Facilitator

Ministry of Justice; Newport; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

The Ministry of Justice is seeking a role focused on delivering rehabilitation programmes within a prison environment in Newport. The post holder will run group and individual sessions, organise materials, plan sessions and adapt delivery to meet participant needs, while maintaining accurate records of assessments and prisoner contacts.

Training, career development opportunities and professional support are provided, with supervision from treatment and programme management teams and ongoing CPD.

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 in a responsive way to meet the needs of the participants.
• Notify the Treatment Managers and other team members when sessions are unable to run, and complete missed session catch ups.
• Identify and actively recruit future programmes participants, completing assessments, and screening tools whilst maintaining an accurate database of the outcomes.
• Maintain accurate records of assessments and contact with prisoners.
• Conduct motivational interviews with prisoners with the aim to engage them in programmes.
• Continually motivate and engage future, current and past participants.
• Complete post session de-briefs and record accurately any key information from the sessions.
• Complete post-programme tasks including writing a record of progress, setting objectives, contributing to post-programme reviews and communicating progress with sentence management team, for each programme 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 your treatment manager.
• Actively engage in supervision provided by treatment and programme management teams.
• Engage in continual professional development opportunities supported by your line manager.
• Deliver awareness packages to other staff in the establishment.

Job description

The Ministry of Justice is seeking a role focused on delivering rehabilitation programmes within a prison environment in Newport. The post holder will run group and individual sessions, organise materials, plan sessions and adapt delivery to meet participant needs, while maintaining accurate records of assessments and prisoner contacts.

Training, career development opportunities and professional support are provided, with supervision from treatment and programme management teams and ongoing CPD.