Wellbeing Practitioner

Company Description

Catch22 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 '3Ps'.

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.

Personal Wellbeing

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
• Emotional Wellbeing Services
• Social Inclusion

Job Description

This role is based in our South East London Cluster with the main hub and office being in Lewisham. This area also covers Bexley and Orpington. 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.

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Qualifications

• 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.

Additional Information

Salary: £30,277.68 per annum

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

Hours of work: Full time, 38 hours per week

*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 role is subject to an Enhanced DBS and MoJ checks.
*This is a community-based role, with travel across various delivery and training sites across London.

Benefits:

• 28 days annual leave + bank holidays, rising to 33 days with service.
• Pension scheme with matching contributions of up to 4%.
• Discounted shopping opportunities.
• 1 or 2 work from home days can be granted as part of these roles for admin purposes however, not contractually obliged but part of our wellbeing support. 
• Possibility of flexible work requests as part of our Catch22 Ways of Working scheme, this includes optional 4 day weeks or 9 day fortnights working patterns. 

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