Support Worker Peripatetic

Your Ambition; Devon and Torbay; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 29,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Volunteer days

Pension 5% / 5% employer

Healthcare plan

Salary review

Refer a friend

Benefit hub access

Job summary

Seetec’s Communities division is seeking a Support Worker (Peripatetic) to oversee caseloads across custody and community settings, delivering tailored interventions and supporting safeguards. This FTC runs until December 2028, with travel across the South West region and flexible other locations.

You will work with peer mentors and volunteers, coordinating housing, substance misuse and health services to aid reintegration and reduce reoffending risks.

Qualifications

• Resilience in high-pressure settings.
• Ability to engage individuals with complex needs.
• Capacity to motivate and maintain engagement across caseloads.
• Problem-solving mindset with proactive barriers management.
• High levels of initiative and self-motivation.
• Analytical thinking: interpret data and draw insights.

Responsibilities

• Manage a caseload of participants across custody and community settings.
• Meet individual performance targets and contribute to team targets.
• Ensure best practice is identified, adhered to and championed.
• Handle personal data in accordance with the data protection policy.
• Undertake any other duties as required, appropriate to the post.

Skills

Resilience

Engaging clients

Motivation

Problem solving

Initiative

Analytical thinking

Job description

CFO Evolution - Support Worker Peripatetic

Job Role

We’re hiring a Support Worker (Peripatetic) to join the CFO Evolution programmeon a long term Fixed Term Contract (FTC) until the end of 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.

Flexibility to cover other locations within the South West region may also be necessary.

In return for your dedication, knowledge, and commitment, we’re offering a competitive salary range £25,878 to £29000 p.a. (dependent on experience) with these great benefits:

• 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.

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Location: Torbay, Devon

Contact: Fixed Term Contract - December 2028

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

Key Responsibilities

• Manage a caseload of participants across both custody and community settings
• Meet individual performance targets and contribute towards meeting team performance targets .
• Ensures best practice is identified, adhered to and championed
• To handle personal data in accordance with the organisation's data protection policy.
• To undertake any other duties, as required, appropriate to the post.

Skills and Experience

• Resilience and focus in fast-paced, constantly evolving environments.
• Skill in engaging individuals with complex needs and disadvantaged backgrounds.
• Capacity to motivate and maintain engagement, supporting individuals through positive change.
• Problem-solving mindset, with a proactive approach to overcoming barriers.
• High levels of initiative and self-motivation.
• Analytical thinking, including the ability to research, interpret, and draw insights from data.

Additional Information

Communities is the Justice and Social Care division of Seetec, delivering tailored support to participants across a range of contracts, including as CFO Activity Hubs, Accommodation, Personal Wellbeing and Approved Premises. We believe that everyone should have the opportunity to build a better future, regardless their past choices or the challenges they face.
We are committed to combining our knowledge, skills and talents across the justice and social care sectors to deliver services and interventions that overcome the barriers that hold people back from living more fulfilled lives. Ultimately, our aim is to equip individuals with the necessary skills needed to desist from offending, successfully reintegrate into to their local communities and address barriers to work.
Seetec is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share and uphold this commitment in conjunction with the requirements of the Prevent Duty and the positive promotion of modern British values.
You will be required to process a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. Seetec support the recruitment of ex- offenders and will not discriminate in anyway. Our full policy statement of “Ex-Offenders” can be found on our website under” About us”
Seetec is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.