HMP Highpoint – Facilitator (Group Worker)

Overview

The role is based in a prison and involves working in groups and one‑to‑one to deliver a programme that helps prisoners understand their behaviours, build positive relationships, improve critical thinking skills and support them to live an offence‑free future. The Group Worker works as part of a small team and provides an important rehabilitative service to meet the Government’s ambition of reducing re‑offending.

Responsibilities, Activities and Duties

• Deliver programmes in a group or individual basis, following the manual and delivering as designed.
• Organise materials for session delivery.
• Plan sessions as per the programme requirements and identify ways to deliver them in a responsive way to meet participants’ needs.
• Notify the Treatment Managers and other team members when sessions cannot run, and complete missed‑session catch‑ups.
• Identify and actively recruit future programme participants, complete assessments and screening tools, while maintaining an accurate database of outcomes.
• Maintain accurate records of assessments and contact with prisoners.
• Conduct motivational interviews with prisoners to engage them in programmes.
• Continually motivate and engage current, future and past participants.
• Complete post‑session de‑briefs and record key information accurately.
• Complete post‑programme tasks including writing a record of progress, setting objectives, contributing to post‑programme reviews and communicating progress with the 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 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.

Behaviours

• Communicating and Influencing
• Developing Self and Others
• Managing a Quality Service
• Working Together

Essential Experience

• Excellent skills in dealing with people.

Abilities

• Successfully complete the required assessment and training courses to deliver particular interventions and maintain accreditation within the role.
• Facilitate interactively and engagingly.
• Fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in English, or Welsh where specified in Wales.

Benefits

• Pension through the Civil Service pension schemes.
• Training and development opportunities, including Equality and Diversity, Dealing with Challenging Behaviour, Suicide Prevention and Anti‑Bullying programmes.
• Season ticket advance after two months’ service.

Equality, Diversity and Recruitment

• We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission’s recruitment principles.
• As a Disability Confident employer, we provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process and in the workplace.
• We can offer an interview to disabled candidates who meet the minimum selection criteria, except in a limited number of campaigns.
• We support veterans through a guaranteed interview scheme where eligible.

Civil Service Nationality Rules

• UK nationals
• Nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• Nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• Nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre‑settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme
• Nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members who have made a valid application for settled or pre‑settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme
• Individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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