Community Payback Supervisor - Taunton

Job Overview

The Community Payback Supervisor is an operational role responsible for supervising a group of offenders serving a community sentence. Duties include directing work groups, ensuring tasks are completed, driving service vehicles to transport people or equipment, and demonstrating good practice to participants.

• Supervise a group at a Community Payback unpaid work placement, typically up to 7 hours a day.
• Drive service vehicles to transport work sites and equipment.
• Encourage and motivate participants to complete manual tasks such as clearing overgrowth, restoring community facilities, planting trees, laying flowerbeds, graffiti removal and litter picking.
• Ensure safety, wellbeing and compliance with probation service standards.
• Record and report progress, incidents and outcomes as required.

• Must hold a full UK Manual Driving Licence.
• Right to work in the UK (citizenship or appropriate visa status).
• Experience or a willingness to work with offenders and in community settings.
• Strong communication, leadership and organisational skills.

This is a full‑time role (37 hours per week) condensed into four 9.25‑hour days. Weekend and occasional evening work are part of the normal pattern. Employees receive a 50% higher rate for each weekend day worked.

Starting salary of £28,064 per annum, with annual pay progression through a Competency Based Framework.

• Annual leave: 25 days on appointment, rising to 30 after five years.
• Access to the National Probation Service pension scheme (LGPS).
• Payable parental leave and other standard civil service benefits.

This role is open to UK nationals, citizens of the Republic of Ireland, Commonwealth nationals with the right to work in the UK, EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein nationals (and certain family members with settled or pre‑settled status), and others as listed in the nationalities rules. We welcome applicants of all ethnicities, ages, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities and other protected characteristics.