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The role is based in a prison and will involve working in groups and one-to-one to deliver a programme to help prisoners understand their behaviours, build positive relationships, improve critical thinking skills and support them to live an offence-free future. The role will work as part of a small team of Group Workers to provide an important rehabilitative service and meet the Government’s ambition of reducing re-offending.

Summary

The job holder will deliver a range of activities and programmes, which include assessment, group and individual treatment and provides support to wider rehabilitative activity within the prison. The post holder will be supported through training, career development opportunities and professional support. This is a non-operational, non-rotational job with no line management responsibilities.

Responsibilities, Activities and Duties

The job holder will be required to carry out the following responsibilities, activities and duties:

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.

The duties/responsibilities listed above describe the post as it is at present and is not intended to be exhaustive. The job holder is expected to accept reasonable alterations and additional tasks of a similar level that may be necessary. Significant adjustments may require re-examination under the Job Evaluation Scheme and shall be discussed in the first instance with the job holder. An ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence through the medium of English or (where specified in Wales) Welsh.

Behaviours

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

Essential Experience

The job holder will need to have excellent skills in dealing with people.
Full training will be provided.

Ability

Ability to successfully complete the required assessment and training courses to deliver particular Interventions and maintain this accreditation within the role.
Ability to facilitate in an interactive and engaging way.

Technical Skills

As part of the interview, you have been asked to complete a facilitation exercise. The role of a Group Worker is detailed above so please use these details to prepare for your facilitation exercise bearing in mind it is not a ‘presentation’.

There are 3 potential topics for your facilitation exercise as follows:

1. “Explore the approaches you could take to solve a problem”

2. “Explore the potential difficulties of working with group members and how you might manage these”

3. “Explore what makes an effective group learning experience”

Please choose one of these 3 headings.

To help you prepare for the facilitation exercise, carefully think of the skills that you feel will be needed for the post. Ensure that you structure and plan your facilitation exercise carefully and have any visual aids prepared in advance such as a flipchart or appropriate props. There will be flip chart and pens available on the day to use but you are also able to bring these prepared to the interview.

Please note that PowerPoint will NOT be available for this exercise.

When preparing for your facilitation exercise please consider the following:

• The exercise should last no longer than 10 minutes

• It must be interactive in style i.e. engage the panel in suitable discussions and activities, balanced with demonstrating your knowledge of the topic

• You should ask the panel questions relating to your topic where appropriate

• Ensure that they have understood what you have delivered

A wide variety of information, training and guidance on how to prepare for interviews and the assessments can be found online and are excluded from this guidance. Candidate guidance on Success profile interviewing can be found here: Success Profiles

Person specification

Please refer to Job Description

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

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

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

Please refer to Job Description

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £34,440, HM Prison & Probation Service contributes £9,977 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).

Access to learning and development
A working environment that supports a range of flexible working options to enhance your work life balance
A working culture which encourages inclusion and diversity
A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
Annual Leave
Public Holidays
Season Ticket Advance

For more information about the recruitment process, benefits and allowances and answers to general queries, please click the below link which will direct you to our Candidate Information Page.

Link: https://justicejobs.tal.net/vx/candidate/cms/About%20the%20MOJ

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Technical skills.https://justicejobs.tal.net/vx/candidate/cms/About%20the%20MOJ

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

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 (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
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

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see theCivil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

Name : SSCL Recruitment Enquiries Team
Email : moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@resourcing.soprasteria.co.uk
Telephone : 0345 241 5358

Recruitment team

Email : moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@resourcing.soprasteria.co.uk

Further information

Appointment to the Civil Service is governed by the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles. If you feel a department has breached the requirement of the Recruitment Principles and would like to raise this, please contact SSCL (Moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@gov.sscl.com) in the first instance. If the role has been advertised externally (outside of the Civil Service) and you are not satisfied with the response, you may bring your complaint to the Commission. For further information on bringing a complaint to the Civil Service Commission please visit their web pages: http://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/civil-service-recruitm…

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Salary range

£34,440 per year