22302 - Community Payback Supervisor - Lancaster - Part time

Ministry of Justice • Lancaster, CA

10d • Hybrid

About The Position

A career in community payback gives you the power to make a positive impact on the lives of People on Probation as well as your community. People come from all walks of life to form one team in the Probation Service. It's all about supporting People on Probation on their journey and making your community a better place. Whether that's building benches or cleaning the streets, you're there because you genuinely want to help. If this sounds like you, apply now. If you are successful in the recruitment process to join the Probation Service, your starting salary will be £28,064, Pro-Rata. On a typical day, you’ll spend up to 7 hours supervising a group at a Community Payback unpaid work placement. Post holders may be required to undertake weekend working as part of their normal pattern of working. The Community Payback supervisor role is accommodated to people on probation who work or have caring responsibilities. Community Payback projects run 7 days a week therefore you will: work frequent weekends, and you may be asked to cover some evenings. You will be paid a higher rate of 50% for weekend days you do work. In this role, the pace of our work means that rest breaks don’t always happen in the standard way. When this happens, we make sure your wellbeing is looked after. Your wellbeing really matters to us, so we want to be open about this from the outset. If you’re someone who enjoys a varied, active role where no two days are the same, this is a great environment to make a real difference while being fully supported. The Probation Service offers the opportunity for annual pay progression through a Competency Based Framework (CBF), which if eligible, will see your pay increase. CBF is designed to enable you to move up through the pay band range as your competence grows. New entrants are expected to join on the minimum of the pay band. Probation Service also increase their pay band ranges annually in line with Civil Service Pay guidance, which will also apply an increase to band pay ranges where applicable. This is an operational role directly supervising work groups of offenders serving a community sentence. This may include driving service vehicles to transport people or equipment. The post holder will be responsible for all work site supervision tasks and will work with service users to ensure that all tasks are carried out to the best of their ability. This will include working alongside people to demonstrate good practice as necessary. For further information on the summary, responsibilities, activities, duties of the role and the Civil Service Success Profile Criteria which will be used in the assessment process, please refer to the full Job Description Attachment. The work is varied, challenging and meaningful and comes with job security, great benefits and career progression opportunities - not to mention the chance to make a real difference to people’s lives and our communities. Community Payback Supervisors will work with a diverse mix of individuals, so it’s important that you’re empathetic, a good communicator and happy to take the lead. It’s all about supporting offenders on their journey and making your community a better place. Whether that’s building benches or cleaning the streets, you’re there because you genuinely want to help people. As a Community Payback supervisor, you’ll be at the heart of this work, leading small teams to complete their unpaid work hours. You’ll supervise and motivate them to complete a range of manual tasks to pay back for the harm they’ve caused. These tasks could include clearing overgrowth to make public spaces safer, restoring community facilities such as sports halls and playgrounds, planting trees or laying flowerbeds, and litter picking and graffiti removal.

Requirements

• Must hold a full UK Manual Driving Licence.
• Hours must include a weekend day.
• Excellent people and communication skills.
• Confidence to lead, motivate and supervise groups.
• Practical skills or a trade are beneficial.
• Experience in areas such as painting and decorating, carpentry, gardening, grounds maintenance, construction, landscaping or general maintenance is particularly welcome.
• Experience may be drawn from any setting, including employment, the Armed Forces, voluntary work, education, community projects, construction, maintenance, landscaping or other relevant activities.
• Must have the right to work in the UK.
• Must have and maintain the legal right to live and work in the Civil Service and in the United Kingdom.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in areas such as painting and decorating, carpentry, gardening, grounds maintenance, construction, landscaping or general maintenance.

Responsibilities

• Supervising work groups of offenders serving a community sentence.
• Driving service vehicles to transport people or equipment.
• Responsible for all work site supervision tasks.
• Working with service users to ensure all tasks are carried out to the best of their ability.
• Working alongside people to demonstrate good practice as necessary.
• Supervising and motivating teams to complete a range of manual tasks.
• Leading small teams to complete unpaid work hours.

Benefits

• Annual leave is 25 days on appointment and will increase to 30 days after five years’ service, plus public holidays.
• Leave for part-time and job share posts will be calculated on a pro-rata basis.
• Pension: The National Probation Service is covered by the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) run through the Greater Manchester Pension Fund (GMPF).
• Ministry of Justice is committed to staff development and offers an extensive range of training and development opportunities.
• Opportunity to join employee-run networks that have been established to provide advice and support and to enable the views of employees from minority groups to be expressed direct to senior management.
• Range of ‘Family Friendly’ policies such as opportunities to work reduced hours or job share.
• Access to flexible benefits such as voluntary benefits, retail vouchers and discounts on a range of goods and services.
• Paid paternity, adoption and maternity leave.
• Free annual sight tests for employees who use computer screens.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed