Programme Facilitator

Eligibility

This role is not eligible for new Skilled Worker visas in accordance with the current immigration rules.

From 22 July 2025, the Government introduced changes to the Skilled Worker visa route. The department cannot consider sponsoring you for this role unless you have held a Skilled Worker visa prior to the 22 July 2025 changes. If you have held a Skilled Worker visa continuously, please raise this during your vetting checks and eligibility will be assessed in accordance with the immigration rules and transitional provisions in place.

If you are applying for this role and you have not held a Skilled Worker visa prior to the 22 July 2025 changes, you will need to consider your options for obtaining and/or maintaining your right to work in the UK in light of these changes. Successful applicants must ensure they have and maintain the legal right to live and work in the Civil Service and in the United Kingdom.

The Department will continue to comply with UK Immigration Rules applied in the UK and Civil Service. You can read more about Skilled Worker visas and the eligibility criteria here.

Are you passionate about rehabilitation? Could you help people make meaningful and sustained changes in their lives? If so, a career as a Programme Facilitator in the Probation Service is for you.

Delivering interventions to people who engage in harmful behaviour to help reduce their likelihood of reoffending is an important part of our work in HMPPS. Our Programme Facilitators deliver a range of Accredited Programmes and Structured Interventions. You will deliver group work and individual work to people subject to Community Orders or on licence after release from prison.

These programmes are designed to support people to desist from crime, help people build on their strengths and lead more fulfilling and pro‑social lives. You will work with people who have perpetrated domestic abuse, sexual abuse and/or committed other violent and acquisitive offences.

The majority of our programmes are delivered in the evening; therefore evening work is essential. You will also travel to different locations from your office base to deliver programmes, and travel expenses can be claimed.

If you are successful in the recruitment process to join the Probation Service, your starting salary will be £26,475.

In addition to the base salary, you will be entitled to unsocial hours payments for working in the evenings and/or on a Saturday. Working on a Saturday attracts an additional premium of 50% and working evenings an additional 30%.

The Probation Service offers the opportunity for annual pay progression through a Competency Based Framework (CBF). If eligible, this framework can see your pay increase as your competence grows. New entrants are expected to join on the minimum of the pay band. We also increase our pay band ranges annually in line with Civil Service Pay guidance, which will apply an increase to band pay ranges where applicable.

You will be regionally based and sit in the Interventions Team, reporting to the Programme Manager. You will deliver interventions across a large regional area where travel will be required and there will be no line management responsibility in this role.

There will be a requirement to regularly work unsocial hours, including evenings and weekends.

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 ().