Wellbeing Practitioner- Prison Lead

Catch22 exists to help build a society where everyone has a good place to live, good people around them, and a fulfilling purpose. We call these our '3Ps'.

Social Justice

In Social Justice, we work with young people and adults in custody and in the community, providing a range of services including offender management and resettlement, mentoring, veterans in custody, victim services, gangs work, and youth justice. We believe that with effective support mechanisms, and the correct interventions, we can change the ideology of service users, helping them to desist from crime, and reach their true potential.

This post presents an exciting opportunity to become a frontline practitioner, within our Personal Wellbeing services, in the London region. Commissioned by HMPPS, these services are focused on supporting adult male ex‑offenders across the following four pathways:

• Family and Significant Others
• Lifestyle and Associates
• Social Inclusion

This advert is rolling for multiple roles across our pan London Personal Wellbeing Contract, as a Wellbeing Practitioner - Prison Lead. These roles are based at one of our below hubs with frequent travel across their respective clusters (please state a preference of base as part of your application):

• Croydon
• Romford
• Canning Town
• Kings Cross
• Brixton
• Ealing
• Lewisham

Job Description

About You

• Confident, professional, and adaptable, with the ability to work effectively in challenging environments.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to build and manage great working relationships, sharing knowledge and skills to deliver shared goals.
• Able to effectively motivate and support service users in their ability to change, through both one to one and groupwork interventions.
• Able to identify and recognise risk, and act according to risk management procedures, to enable service users to manage their own safety, and the safety of others.
• Able to proactively manage a caseload of service users, utilising digital systems, and appropriately sharing information, with excellent attention to detail when recording work and meeting deadlines.

About the role

The role of Wellbeing Practitioner - Prison Lead is an excellent opportunity to directly support service users in addressing their needs, and improving their prospects, as a positive influence for change.

• Managing a caseload of service users, completing ongoing assessments and management of individual needs, capacity, opportunity, and motivation to rehabilitate.
• Delivering interventions to support rehabilitation.
• Working in partnership with a range of local providers, taking account of available risk information.
• Working in close partnership with delivery partners, HMPPS, the Voluntary Sector, and other Criminal Justice organisations.

Qualifications

• Good basic education, including Maths and English GCSE or equivalent.
• Evidence of continual professional development.
• Experience of working with Microsoft Office - Word and Excel.
• Desirable: any qualification relevant to working with those in Criminal Justice System, for example criminology/ criminal justice/ social care/ mental health/ IAG/ Family.

Benefits

Potential for 1/2 home‑working days for admin purposes (not contractually obliged, but part of our wellbeing support).

Possibility of flexible work requests, as part of our Catch22 Ways of Working scheme, this includes optional 4‑day weeks, or 9‑day fortnights working patterns.

Vetting Requirements

This role is subject to the satisfactory completion of relevant pre‑employment checks, which may include HMPPS vetting, NPPV, or other role‑specific security clearances. Any offer of employment will be conditional upon the successful outcome of these checks. Where clearance is not granted, or is subsequently withdrawn, Catch22 reserves the right to withdraw the offer of employment.