Community Payback Supervisor - Outcome

Overview

This is an operational role directly supervising work groups of offenders serving a community sentence. 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 may include driving service vehicles to transport people or equipment and working alongside people to demonstrate good practice as necessary.

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’re 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. These tasks could 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. You will be paid a higher rate for any evening and weekend days you work. There may be a chance to work part-time in some regions.

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 matters to us, and 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.

• Working Monday to Friday with some duty calls on weekends; there is a need to be flexible with start times.
• There is a permanent manual drivers licence requirement for this role.
• Weekend work is expected as part of normal working pattern; you will be paid a higher rate for weekend days you work.
• The work may involve working alongside volunteers or staff from partner organisations.
• There may be a chance to work part-time in some regions; discuss at interview.

There will be an assessment day to test abilities, behaviours, and strengths. The assessment day is anticipated to run from 09:00–16:30, with morning onsite experience and afternoon interviews. Your spoken English abilities will be assessed. You will be advised whether you have been successful on the same day. If offered and accepted, the vetting process will commence and can take up to 12 weeks.

Details of the exact day, start time and what to bring will be shared after the initial online stage.

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