Support Worker - Justice

The Growth Company; Leeds; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A community-focused organization in Leeds seeks a Support Worker to deliver rehabilitation and educational support to individuals within their Justice Services. This role includes assessing participant needs, designing tailored training, and providing one-on-one and group support to aid progression towards education and employment. Ideal candidates have experience working with offenders or marginalized groups, possess strong interpersonal skills, and are committed to making a positive impact in individuals' lives.

Qualifications

• Experience working with offenders or marginalized individuals in educational settings.
• Ability to effectively promote participant progression to education or employment.
• Knowledge of desistance theory and rehabilitation issues.

Responsibilities

• Assess individual learning needs and formulate action plans.
• Design and deliver bespoke training sessions for participants.
• Document all participant activities and coordinate with relevant teams.
• Facilitate group-based learning activities to boost employability.

Skills

Information Advice and Guidance

Teaching qualifications

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Negotiation skills

Job description

Support Worker - Justice

The Growth Company's (GC) Justice Services are looking for a Justice Case Worker to deliver rehabilitation and Employment Training and Education support for individuals and groups within our Creating Future Opportunities (CFO) Evolution Program within our Community Activity Hub.

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.

There will be travel between Leeds and Huddersfield Activity Hubs.

Key Responsibilities

• Assess individual learning needs and formulate tailored action plans.
• Design and deliver bespoke training sessions and targeted interventions for each participant.
• Guide participants in accessing and effectively utilising relevant information and resources.
• Accurately document all interventions, participant activities, and progress using the CRM system; coordinate subsequent actions with internal teams and external stakeholders.
• Provide ongoing support to help participants implement their personal development plans.
• Deliver additional one-to-one interventions as needed, offering guidance on pathways and empowering individuals to make informed choices.
• Create and maintain engaging learning materials to enhance participant development.
• Facilitate group-based learning activities to boost communication skills, social confidence, and employability through interactive workshops and presentations.
• Identify suitable job opportunities and actively broker matches between participants and potential employers.

About You

• Working with offenders, or those disaffected and marginalised from mainstream services, in training, guidance, advice and counselling environments.
• Have strong interpersonal, communication and negotiation skills.
• Ability to work in a target-driven environment, with a focus on the successful achievement of outcomes for participants.
• High level guidance skills, with the ability to deliver one-to-one and group sessions to at least Grade 2 standard.
• A warm, approachable empathetic style and the ability to establish a rapport and build relationships with participants that supports their progression to education, training and employment and facilitates desistance from crime.

Skills Required

• Information Advice and Guidance and / or teaching qualifications, (or equivalent), desired, but experience working intensively with individuals and supporting their progression is most important.
• Knowledge regarding the issues affecting the rehabilitation of offenders, and desistance theory.
• Knowledge of National Probation Services or HM Prison environments and / or training, education, and employment opportunities locally and nationally, and of training and guidance.
• Strong interpersonal, communication and negotiation skills.
• Must have a clean driving licence and own transport.

We are currently unable to provide sponsorship for work permits or visas. Therefore, we can only consider candidates who already have the legal right to work in the UK.

At GC, safeguarding the welfare of all individuals including vulnerable adults and young people is a top priority, and we expect all staff to uphold this standard. All appointments follow Safer Recruitment Procedures, including a DBS check carried out by Due Diligence Limited (DDC Ltd), at no cost to the successful candidate.

Please note : It is a legal offence to apply for a role involving regulated activity if you are on the Barred List.

We are committed to increasing workforce diversity and offer a guaranteed interview to applicants who meet the essential criteria and either have a disability or are from a diverse ethnic community.

If this applies to you, you can request consideration under this scheme during the application process. Your request will be shared only with the Hiring Manager and Internal Recruitment Team.