A great opportunity to work outdoors supporting people on Probation to make improvements to local communities while they make positive changes to get their lives back on track
Are you looking for a rewarding career where you can motivate and inspire others to change for the better,
and build better and safer places to live? One where your personal attributes and transferable skills are more
important than qualifications?
Working in a Community Payback role, you’ll play a key part in supporting people on probation make
improvements to local communities while they make positive changes to get their lives back on track. It’s
varied, meaningful work, with job security, great benefits and career progression opportunities.
Community Payback (CP), previously known as Community Service, is an alternative to a prison sentence for
people who have committed a crime.
CP isn’t just an alternative to custody, it’s a way of helping to create better outcomes for people on
probation and better communities. As a CP 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.
You’ll support and motivate people from different backgrounds to get the most out of their time on CP. You’ll
be helping them to:
make positive changes to local communities
access training and development to learn new skills
improve their chances of employment as they make positive changes in their own lives.
On a typical day, you’ll spend up to seven hours supervising a group at a CP unpaid work placement.
There may be a chance to work part-time in some regions. You can discuss this at your interview..
Eligibility
There are no qualification requirements for the Community Payback Supervisor role.
You’ll get all the training you need to help you work effectively and safely with people on
probation.
To be a success in the role you will require great people skills, the ability to supervise and guide
a
group.
In addition it’s important that you hold a driver’s licence as you’ll need to drive one of our CP
minibuses to take equipment to and from CP project sites. You may also need to drive people from your
group to and from a central pick-up point. A standard driving licence will be fine, but we’d also
welcome applications from people who have a D1 licence.
While not essential, we’d love to hear from you if you have a skill or trade such as painting and
decorating or carpentry, for example as this will be useful experience to take into the role.
Pay
The national starting pay for the Community Payback Supervisor role is £23,367.
If taking up a role in London, a London Weighting Allowance of £4,126 will be added to your national
pay, where applicable, totalling £27,373.
To accommodate people on probation who work or have caring responsibilities, CP projects run 7 days a
week and some during the evening. The CP supervisor role therefore includes frequent weekend working,
and you may be asked to cover some evenings. You’ll be paid a higher rate for any evening and weekend
days you do work.
Benefits
Annual Leave: Annual leave is 25 days on appointment and will increase to 30 days after five
years’ service, plus 8 public holidays and service days. Leave for part-time and job share posts
will be calculated on a pro-rata basis
Pension: The National Probation Service is covered by the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
run through the Greater Manchester Pension Fund (GMPF). Please visit www.gmpf.org.uk for further
information.
Networks: The opportunity to join employee-run networks that have been established to provide
advice and support and to enable the views of employees from minority groups to be expressed direct
to senior management. There are currently networks for employees of minority ethnic origin,
employees with disabilities, employees with caring responsibilities, women employees, and lesbian,
gay, bisexual and transgender.
Civil Service Benefits: A wide range of other Civil Service benefits including childcare
vouchers, a cycle to work scheme and travel loans.
Application process
There are just three steps to apply:
At application we will ask you to upload a CV and complete a 500 word statement of Suitability. Your statement of suitability should address the essential experience criteria outlined in the job description. On succesfulling passing this sift you will then be invited to interview.
Training and progression
Before your start your new role, you will receive paid for training on a range of subjects to help
you
work effectively and safely with people on probation. This will include the principles of Community
Payback, plus training on health and safety, risk awareness, and dealing with challenging behaviour.
You
will also have full training on any tools your group will need to use, and you will work alongside and
shadow an experienced colleague before taking responsibility for supervising a group on your own.
Before you start, you will also have an induction into ways of working in the Probation Service and
the
Civil Service.
To support your professional development, you’ll have access to a range of Probation Service-related
training on topics such as best practice approaches to demonstrating life skills, positive
reinforcement
and desistance, and substance misuse and domestic abuse awareness.