Probation Services Officer, Yorkshire Humber, Unpaid

21566 - Probation Services Officer, Yorkshire and the Humber, Unpaid Work, Leeds, Full Time

This advert relates to a new and exciting Probation Service Officer role and is open to new recruits and existing staff seeking a different type of challenge. The Yorkshire and Humber Probation Service are seeking to recruit a number of Probation Service Officers across South Yorkshire to join a newly created Housing Support Services team to work on an exciting project, assisting People on Probation and People in Prison to obtain and maintain accommodation.

Sitting within the Community Integration Business Unit, successful applicants shall be required to support a caseload of men in prison and subject to community supervision, assisting them to identify and apply to viable housing options and opportunities, supporting them to attend assessment appointments, assisting them to be tenancy ready, supporting their move into new accommodation and providing initial new tenancy support and making onward referrals for additional support where required.

Referrals will also be received on those in need of support to maintain their existing tenancies wherever possible/ in their best interests upon reception into custody or when at risk of eviction in the community. Post-holders will require excellent adaptability, relationship building and communication skills, having to work on a one-to-one and group basis with those subject to Prison and Community Sentences both in custody and community settings, liaising with Probation Practitioners and Prison staff providing relevant updates whilst also being responsible for identifying new partnership and pathway opportunities, and generating positive working relationships with a variety of external stakeholders including Local Authority Housing Services and local Housing Providers and Support Services, amongst others.

The Housing Support Services Team is being created as part of a Pilot programme and the posts advertised are permanent roles. Whilst successful applicants will work exclusively on this Project for an initial minimum period of three years/ until March 2029, applicants should be aware that the Project is subject to evaluation and therefore the roles are subject to change.

Come and join us in this exciting and important piece of work which can really make the difference to a Person on Probations successful resettlement and rehabilitation.

Helping to keep the public safe. Giving people the chance to turn their lives around. Building a rewarding professional career. There are many reasons to join the Probation Service. What will yours be?

We’re looking for empathetic, patient, and organised people to join us in this varied role, which offers the chance to make a difference, gain new skills and build a rewarding career within the Probation Service.

If you are successful in the recruitment process to join the Probation Service, your starting salary will be £28,064

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.

The job holder will undertake the full range of work with people on probation before and after sentence. This will include assessment, sentence implementation, offender management and producing reports. The job holder will provide case management support to a full range of people on probation utilising service procedures and practice directions that underpin professional judgement.

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.

You must have the right to work in the UK and Civil Service ().