Community Payback Supervisor

Part‑time role: 7.4 hours per week (Saturday only).

Candidate requirement:
Must hold a full UK Manual Driving Licence. Automatic driving licences are not accepted. This is a mandatory technical requirement for the role.

A career in community payback gives you the power to make a positive impact on the lives of people on probation and your community. People come from all walks of life to form one team in the Probation Service. It is all about supporting people on probation on their journey and making your community a better place. Whether that’s building benches or cleaning the streets, you’re there because you genuinely want to help.

If this sounds like you, apply now.

Successful candidates will receive a starting salary of £26,475 (pro‑rata).

Community Payback Supervisors will be expected to work weekends as part of their normal working pattern. You will be paid a higher rate of 50% for weekend days you work.

Postholders may be required to undertake weekend working as part of their normal pattern of working.

This is an operational role directly supervising work groups of offenders serving a community sentence. This may include driving service vehicles to transport people or equipment. The post holder will be responsible for all work site supervision tasks and will work with service users to ensure that all tasks are carried out to the best of their ability. This will include working alongside people to demonstrate good practice as necessary.

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.

The work is varied, challenging and meaningful and comes with job security, great benefits and career progression opportunities – not to mention the chance to make a real difference to people’s lives and our communities.

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To apply to this role you will need to complete a short application form and provide responses to two Civil Service Behaviour questions and one Experience based question.

Your application will be sifted once the Final date to receive applications has closed. You will then receive further instruction on the progress and outcome of your application.

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If in the event we receive a high volume of applications, we may only assess candidates against the lead behaviour. There is also no guarantee that you will progress to the next stages of the recruitment process; however, we will keep you informed at each stage.

Community Payback Supervisors will work with a diverse mix of individuals, so it’s important that you’re empathetic, a good communicator and happy to take the lead.

It’s all about supporting offenders on their journey and making your community a better place. Whether that’s building benches or cleaning the streets, you’ll be there because you genuinely want to help people.

As a Community Payback supervisor, you’ll be at the heart of this work, leading small teams to complete their unpaid work hours.

You’ll supervise and motivate them to complete a range of manual tasks to pay back for the harm they’ve caused. Tasks may include clearing overgrowth to make public spaces safer, restoring community facilities such as sports halls and playgrounds, planting trees or laying flowerbeds, and litter picking and graffiti removal.

On a typical day, you’ll spend up to 7 hours supervising a group at a Community Payback unpaid work placement.

The Community Payback supervisor role is accommodated to people on probation who work or have caring responsibilities. Community Payback projects run 7 days a week therefore you will:

work frequent weekends, and you may be asked to cover some evenings, be paid a higher rate for any evening and weekend days you do work.

There may be a chance to work part‑time in some regions. You can discuss this at your interview.

In this role, the pace of our work means that rest breaks don’t always happen in the standard way. When this happens, we make sure your wellbeing is looked after.

Your wellbeing really matters to us, so we want to be open about this from the outset. If you’re someone who enjoys a varied, active role where no two days are the same, this is a great environment to make a real difference while being fully supported.