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Form of workClean Sheet hasan exciting opportunity available for aProgramme Facilitatorto join our team at HMP Fosse Way (prison-based and home-based - hybrid working). You will join us on a full-time, fixed-term contract lasting 1-3 years, and in return, you will receive a competitive salary of £23,759per annum.
About the organisation
We are a registered charity with one simple purpose to offer people with convictions the hope of a better future by finding sustainable employment. Our work is about helping people with convictions to find jobs, start to rebuild their lives and as a result, reduce reoffending.
We provide a remote employment support service, supporting men and women for as long as it takes them to find work.
About the Programme Facilitator role:
By using a Christian faith-based and Christ-centred approach, you will coordinate and facilitate a range of employment-related interventions (including group and one-to-one sessions) to support people in prison and on release with their ability and confidence to find employment.
What are the Benefits available to the Programme Facilitator
- Pension matched up to 5%
- Generous annual leave increasing up to 30 days plus bank holidays with service (pro-rata)
- Company sick pay scheme
- Paid training
- Comprehensive wellbeing package, including cover for your family (includes 24/7 GP booking, access to training and wellbeing support, free counselling, discounted shopping and memberships and much more)
- Access to chaplaincy and pastoral support
Key Responsibilities as the Programme Facilitator include:
- Role model and demonstrate your Christian faith as a central aspect of the job, leading devotionals and praying with the team regularly
- Process referrals into Clean Sheet employment support, ensuring that people in prison are selected within the parameters of the selection criteria
- Coordinate and facilitate group sessions focused on employment-related areas (training will be provided). To work alongside the Chief Executive Officer to adapt and develop the employment-related sessions to refine and expand these
- Coordinate and facilitate one-to-one sessions with participants to help embed learning from the workshops and to sign participants up to become Clean Sheet Members
- Provide employment support on release in the community to participants who sign up to become Clean Sheet Members
- Evaluate the delivery of the interventions and the engagement of participants, recording outcomes in appropriate documentation and systems
- Maintain accurate, up-to-date files and relevant documentation to meet the organisation and programme governance and any legal requirements
What do you need to become our Programme Facilitator?
- To be a practicing and professing Christian, able to interpret the Christian Mission of the charity to a contemporary society and to actively role-modelling faith in the workplace
- To have a thorough understanding of, and belief in, the underlying doctrines of the Christian faith and an active prayer life
- A level (or equivalent) in at least 3 subjects, ideally English
- Experience of teaching or training others and/or delivering facilitated group sessions
- Excellent verbal communications skills as well as: organisation, attention to detail, demonstrable writing skills for report writing and good overall computer literacy (Microsoft software etc.)
- Willing to undertake a DBS check in the form of an Enhanced Police check which must be satisfactory to Clean Sheet. Will also need to successfully go through prison security vetting
If you have a passion for making a difference to peoples lives, consider a career as a Programme Facilitator, please click "apply" now - we would like to hear from you.
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