Support Worker Full Time

Seetec; Poole; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 29,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Volunteer days

Pension 5% Employee 5% Employer

Healthcare Cash Plan

Annual salary pay review

Refer a friend scheme

Benefit Hub discounts

Job summary

Seetec is hiring a Support Worker (Peripatetic) for the CFO Evolution programme based at HMP Guys Marsh / Poole Community on a long-term Fixed Term Contract through December 2028. The role involves carrying out assessments, delivering interventions, managing a caseload, and safeguarding adults and children.

You will travel across the cluster, work with peer mentors, and connect participants to housing, substance misuse support, and healthcare services.

Qualifications

• Carry out effective assessments.
• Deliver tailored interventions to participants.
• Build relationships with custodial stakeholders.
• Manage caseload with risk oversight.
• Prepare participants for release and community reintegration.

Responsibilities

• Deliver one-to-one and group interventions.
• Travel across the designated cluster for caseload management.
• Coordinate with peer mentors and volunteers.
• Report changes in risk to Probation Service.
• Safeguard adults and children in line with policies.

Skills

Case load management

Risk assessment

Safeguarding

Intervention delivery

Job description

We're hiring a Support Worker (Peripatetic) within to join the CFO Evolution programme based in HMP Guys Marsh / Poole Community on a long term Fixed Term Contract - December 2028.

In this role, you will carry out effective assessments, deliver tailored interventions, and build strong relationships with stakeholders within custodial settings. Your primary focus will be to support participants in identifying and addressing their individual needs, with the aim of reducing their risk of reoffending.

You'll manage a caseload and provide coordinated oversight of risk, with a strong emphasis on safeguarding both adults and children. This includes promptly reporting any changes in individual risk to the Probation Service and adhering to established policies, procedures, and systems to ensure effective risk management.

From initial engagement and assessment, you will offer motivational support and guidance throughout participants' sentences. You'll deliver both one-to-one and group interventions to help individuals overcome barriers to reintegration. A key part of the role involves preparing participants for release, ensuring a smooth and well-supported transition back into the community.

The role will require you to work closely with peer mentors and volunteers to support caseload management and connect participants with vital services such as housing, substance misuse support, and physical and mental healthcare. Due to the peripatetic nature of this role, regular travel across the designated cluster is required for caseload management, service delivery, and attending internal and external meetings.

We believe that lived experience can be just as valuable as professional experience. We actively encourage applications from people who have personal experience of overcoming challenges linked to the criminal justice system, social care, probation services, mental health, recovery, homelessness, substance misuse, or other complex life circumstances.

In return for your dedication, knowledge, and commitment, we're offering a competitive salary range £26,000 to £29,000 p.a. (dependent on experience) with these great benefits:

• 25 days annual leave + Bank Holidays + Birthday Day off (with the opportunity to buy an additional 5 days)
• 2 Volunteer Days
• Pension - 5% Employee 5% Employer
• Healthcare Cash Plan, incl. 3 x salary life assurance
• Annual salary pay review
• Refer a friend scheme
• Free access to Benefit Hub - an online portal with access to a wide range of retail discounts, cycle to work scheme, and additional voluntary benefits

Communities is part of an employee-owned organisation and we continually pride ourselves on our sense of community, both in the incredible work we do throughout UK and Ireland. People are at the front, centre and heart of every service we provide and each decision we make.

Location: HMP Guys Marsh / Poole Community

Contact: Fixed Term Contract - December 2028

Hours: 37 hours a week. Monday to Friday 8.30 am to 5.00pm

Closing date: 21 October 2026