Wellbeing Practitioner

• Compensation: from GBP 30277.68 - yearly

Catch
22 exists to help build a society where everyone has a good place to live, good people around them, and a fulfilling purpose. We call these our '3

Ps'.

Social Justice

In Social Justice , we work with young people and adults in custody and in the community, providing a range of services including offender management and resettlement,mentoring, veterans in custody, victim services, gangs work, and youth justice.

We believe that with effective support mechanisms, and the correct interventions, we can change the ideology of service users, helping them to desist from crime, and reach their true potential.

This post presents an exciting opportunity to become a frontline practitioner, within our Personal Wellbeing services, in the London region. Commissioned by HMPPS, these services are focused on supporting adult male ex-offenders across the following four pathways:

• Family and Significant Others
• Lifestyle and Associates
• Social Inclusion

This role is based in our South London Cluster with the main hub and office being in Croydon. This area also covers Merton, Sutton and Richmond. It is a requirements to attend delivery spaces and probation offices in these areas.

About You

• Confident, professional, and adaptable, with the ability to work effectively in challenging environments.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to build and manage great working relationships, sharing knowledge and skills to deliver shared goals.
• Able to effectively motivate and support service users in their ability to change, through both one to one and groupwork interventions.
• Able to identify and recognise risk, and act according to risk management procedures, to enable service users to manage their own safety, and the safety of others.
• Able to proactively manage a caseload of service users, utilising digital systems, and appropriately sharing information, with excellent attention to detail when recording work and meeting deadlines.

About the role

The role of
Wellbeing Practitioner
is an excellent opportunity to directly support service users in addressing their needs, and improving their prospects, as a positive influence for change.

• Managing a caseload of service users, completing ongoing assessments and management of individual needs, capacity, opportunity, and motivation to rehabilitate.
• Delivering interventions to support rehabilitation.
• Working in partnership with a range of local providers, taking account of available risk information.
• Working in close partnership with delivery partners, HMPPS, the Voluntary Sector, and other Criminal Justice organisations.

• Good basic education, including Maths and English GCSE, or equivalent.
• Experience of working with Microsoft Office - Word and Excel.
• Desirable:
  Any qualification relevant to working with those in Criminal Justice System, for example criminology/ criminal justice/ social care/ mental health/ IAG/ Family.

Salary: £30,277.68per annum
Hours of work:Full time, 38 hours per week

The salary shown reflects the band for this role, with the final offer taking account of experience and relevant skills.

• Recruitment for this role will include a 2-part recruitment process - group interviews based on skills, and then if successful, a competency panel interview.
• This is a community-based role, with travel across various delivery and training sites across London.

Whilst we are fully committed to creating opportunities for people with convictions, some roles at Catch
22 are subject to external vetting requirements. Where an applicant is unable to meet these requirements, this may affect our ability to appoint them to that particular role. Where possible, we will provide support…