Job Description

This post presents an exciting opportunity to become a Wellbeing Practitioner at our Personal Wellbeing service covering the Dorset area. Commissioned by HMPPS these services are focused on supporting adult male ex-offenders across the following pathways:

· Family and Significant Others

· Lifestyle and Associates

· Emotional Wellbeing Services

· Social Inclusion

Your role will be to support service users to develop strategies to manage emotions and design and deliver skills training to foster self-confidence by knowing how to access appropriate support. You will also support service users to increase capacity to undertake activities to support daily living and advocate for service users in conjunction with multi-agency partners to engage with treatment and other professionals/services (MH teams/support groups) Your role will support our team in achieving our Justice Business Plan objectives: innovate, revitalise and reform the delivery of Justice Services.

This role will involve working in close partnership with delivery partners, HMPPS, Voluntary Sector and other Criminal Justice organisations to promote and deliver our services and achieve the required outputs and outcomes.

Although based in Poole, the role will cover the whole Dorset Area and you will be expected to travel accordingly to meet with the people you are delivering our interventions to. 

Interventions will be delivered on a 1 to 1 and group work basis so experience of this would be an advantage as would previous experience of working with people in the criminal justice system and / or safeguarding. 

Qualifications

QUALIFICATIONS/ EXPERIENCE

Essential

Driving Licence and access to a vehicle.

Good basic education, including Maths and English GCSE or equivalent

Evidence of continual professional development

Experience working with Microsoft Office – Word and Excel

Desirable

Any qualification relevant to rehabilitation of offenders, for example criminology/ criminal justice/ social care/ mental health/ IAG/ Family Services/ Emotional Wellbeing/ Social Inclusion