Facilitator - Group Worker

All staff have a responsibility to safeguard and promote the welfare of children. The post holder must undertake the appropriate level of training and is responsible for ensuring that they understand and work within the safeguarding policies of the organisation. The job holder will deliver a range of activities and programmes, which include assessment, group and individual treatment and provides support to wider rehabilitative activity within the prison.

The post holder will be supported through training, career development opportunities and professional support. This is a non-operational, non-rotational job with no line management responsibilities.

• Deliver programmes in a group or individual basis, following a manual and delivering as designed.
• Organise materials for session delivery.
• Plan sessions as per the programme requirements and identify ways to deliver the sessions in a responsive way to meet the needs of the participants.
• Notify the Treatment Managers and other team members when sessions are unable to run, and complete missed session catch ups.
• Identify and actively recruit future programmes participants, completing assessments, and screening tools whilst maintaining an accurate database of the outcomes.
• Maintain accurate records of assessments and contact with prisoners.
• Conduct motivational interviews with prisoners with the aim to engage them in programmes.
• Continually motivate and engage future, current and past participants.
• Complete post session de-briefs and record accurately any key information from the sessions.
• Complete post-programme tasks including writing a record of progress, setting objectives, contributing to post-programme reviews and communicating progress with sentence management team, for each programme participant.
• Actively engage in sentence management by liaising with prison and community Offender Managers.
• Work towards the delivery guidelines outlined within the quality assurance framework, supported by your treatment manager.
• Actively engage in supervision provided by treatment and programme management teams.
• Engage in continual professional development opportunities supported by your line manager.
• Deliver awareness packages to other staff in the establishment.

• Essential
  
  Experience:
  
  The job holder will need to have excellent skills in dealing with people.
• Full training will be provided.
• Ability:
  Ability to successfully complete the required assessment and training courses to deliver particular Interventions and maintain this accreditation within the role.
• Ability to facilitate in an interactive and engaging way.

Standard full time working hours are 37 hours per week excluding breaks which are unpaid. HMPPS welcomes part-time, flexible and job-sharing working patterns, where they meet the demands of the role and business needs. All applications for part-time, flexible and job-sharing working patterns will be considered in accordance with the HMPPS  Flexible Working policy. If you are a current NPS employee, this vacancy may be available on a Loan basis for up to 2 years.

The Loan/Secondment is subject to the approval of the selected candidate s Business Unit, which should be obtained before confirmation of appointment.

A sift based on the lead behaviour, Communicating and Influencing, may be held if a large number of applications are received. If a large number of applications remain after the initial sift, your application will be progressed to a full sift, where all behaviours will then be considered. Details of interview stages and dates are To Be Confirmed (expected Feb/Mar 2026).

Other information includes security checks (DBS Enhanced), Welsh language requirement where specified, Equal Employment Opportunity statements, and notes on civil service reforms and redeployment where applicable. Candidates should be aware that some terms and conditions are changing as part of Civil Service reform and that final terms will be provided if an offer is made.