Peripetetic Community Payback Placement Coordinator in Preston

General Information

Salary

£26,475 – £31,650

Working Pattern

Full Time

Vacancy Approach

External

Location

Preston

Region

North West

Closing Date

22-Dec-2025

Business Unit

Community Payback

Post Type

Permanent

Civil Service Grade

Other

Number of jobs available

1

Reserve List

12 Months

Job ID

12615

Descriptions & requirements

Job description

• Diadem House in Preston will be the base but t will be an expectation of cover across Lancashire as this is peripetetic role
• Minimum of 60% of the working week in an office, however, may be more dependent on operational requirements.
• Requirement of regular weekend duty cover on a rota basis for which toil/flexi is provided in addition to enhanced weekend pay.

**Please note: Candidates must hold a full UK Manual Driving Licence when applying for this role, this is a mandatory technical requirement in order to carry out this role. We cannot accept candidates who hold an automatic Driving Licence only.**

The post holder will support the CP Manager to ensure that all Community Payback placements meet the policy objectives of the organisation and comply with relevant legislation.

It\’s all about supporting People on Probation on their journey and making your community a better place.

If this sounds like you, apply now.

If you are successful in the recruitment process to join the Probation Service, your starting salary will be £26,475

Please note: Community Payback Placement Coordinators will be expected to work weekends when needed. This may be to cover for CP supervisors, or to visit CP project sites – such as schools which aren\’t accessible on weekdays – to complete project risk assessments or meet beneficiaries, for example. You will be paid a higher rate for any weekend days you do work.

Post holders may be required to undertake weekend working as part of their normal pattern of working

The Probation Service offers the opportunity for annual pay progression through a Competency Based Framework (CBF), which if eligible, will see your pay increase. CBF is designed to enable you to move up through the pay band range as your competence grows.

New entrants are expected to join on the minimum of the pay band.

Probation Service also increase their pay band ranges annually in line with Civil Service Pay guidance, which will also apply an increase to band pay ranges w applicable.

Overview of the job

This is a high-profile role within PS responsible for establishing and maintaining relationships with a range of current and future partner organisations, customers and stakeholders. This will involve working with a range of voluntary and statutory organisations.

The post holder will ensure that sufficient work placement that meet the quality standards set out in the Community Payback Guidance are available so that the sentence of the Court can be carried out effectively.

The post holder will support the CP Manager to ensure that all Community Payback placements meet the policy objectives of the organisation and comply with relevant legislation.

Post holders may be required to undertake weekend working as part of their normal pattern of working.

Summary

The job holder will identify and establish community-based work projects that fulfil the requirements of the Community Payback Guidance Manual. This includes monitoring and review of existing projects.

The post holder will conduct relevant health and safety assessments of work placements and ensure compliance with organisational policy and health and safety legislation.

The post holder will have oversight of the placement induction procedure, defining tasks and safe working practices and appropriate allocation and use of required tools and equipment.

Responsibilities, Activities & Duties

The job holder will be required to carry out the following responsibilities, activities and duties:

• Find and assess a wide range of suitable Community Payback placements, including those providing an opportunity for service user training and future employment and placements appropriate for people with protective characteristics.
• Assess the viability of income generation opportunities within new placements, discuss with beneficiaries and manage the process to maximise this potential.
• To complete a schedule of safe working practice for work and create a project file in accordance with Health and safety standards.
• Promote positive relationships with beneficiaries/ stakeholders, including meetings and site visits as required to manage customer/stakeholder relationships and promote a positive perception of the PS with community networks.
• Ensure that a safe working environment for staff, service users and beneficiaries is maintained on all Community Payback work sites in compliance with Health and Safety legislation and PS policy.
  Ensure that placements remain compliant with quality requirements and take action as required to improve or discontinue placements w- quality standards cannot be met.
• Be responsible for coordinating tools, equipment, appropriate clothing and PPE and other resources used on Community Payback placements and ensure that all equipment complies with Health and Safety requirements and that users know how to safely use the equipment.
• Ensure that relevant Health and Safety Training is provided to staff both in response to ad‐hoc needs and as required by the service delivery plan.
• To support investigations into Health and Safety incidents and ensure that serious incidents including near misses are reported and that lessons learnt are shared within the team.
• To support the electronic, social media and other innovative means to receive nominations for new placements from the public and promote Community Payback, within PS guidelines.
• Liaise with probation practitioners as necessary to exchange information and maintain appropriate working arrangements.
• To participate in rota planning, delivering and reviewing the service user induction.
• Recruit, support and coordinate Mentors who will encourage service user compliance, engagement and access to local support networks.
  To cover the CP supervisor role w required to avoid- lation of work placements for operational reasons.
• To contribute to training of CP supervisors and beneficiaries, as appropriate

The duties/responsibilities listed above describe the post as it is at present and is not intended to be exhaustive. The job holder is expected to accept reasonable alterations and additional tasks of a similar level that may be necessary. Significant adjustments may require re-examination under the Job Evaluation Scheme and shall be discussed in the first instance with the job holder.

An ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence through the medium of English or (w specified in Wales) Welsh.

Civil Service Success Profile Criteria

Behaviours

• Managing a Quality Service
• Working Together
• Communicating and Influencing
• Delivering at Pace
• Making Effective Decisions

Experience

• UK Manual Driving License
• Evidence of working as part of a team, sharing good practice, knowledge of community networks and the skills to promote a strong team ethos
• Examples of maintaining positive working relationships with a range of stakeholders (beneficiary organisations) and represent the organisations at meetings and Forums
• Experience of conducting workplace reviews to make judgements about compliance with quality standards

Technical

• Health and Safety Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) Level 3 or Managing Safely qualified
• Ability to drive a Minibus D1 and trailer
• Qualified as an assessor for NVQ awards for service user e.g. OCN

About us:

The work is varied, challenging and meaningful and comes with job security, great benefits and career progression opportunities – not to mention the chance to make a real difference to people\’s lives and our communities.

About the Recruitment Process

To apply to this role you will be required to complete a short application form and detail responses to two Civil Service Behaviour and one Experience based questions.

Your application will be sifted once the application deadline has d. You will then receive further instruction on the progress and outcome of your application.

About the role

As a Community Payback placement coordinator, you\’ll be responsible for establishing and maintaining working relationships with a range of stakeholders – including local authorities and charities – to make sure t are sufficient numbers of Community Payback work placements.

This will include exploring opportunities for people to access on-the-job training and education to develop their skills and increase their chances of employment while they complete their unpaid work hours.

Working pattern

As a Community Payback placement coordinator you will:

be expected to work weekends when needed to cover for Community Payback supervisors or to visit project sites – such as schools which are not accessible on weekdays
get paid a higher rate for any weekend days you do work

Additional Information

W applicants provide multiple location preferences, reserve lists will be managed in accordance with location preference/s, as indicated in your application. We will appoint in merit list order for each location outlined in the vacancy and hold a separate locational reserve list for each of these locations. After appointments have been made using this locational appointment process, any remaining candidates who met the benchmark for the role will remain on a locational reserve list in accordance with their preferences for 12 months. Please only indicate preferences w you are prepared to work. If you are subsequently offered a role from the reserve list for a location preference indicated in your application and decline it, you will be removed from the reserve list for the vacancy, across all locational preferences. All offers of employment will be made strictly in merit order, based on your performance throughout the recruitment process. Candidates at the top of the merit list will be offered vacancies as they arise in their chosen locations.

The addresses listed in the job advertisement are not an exhaustive list of potential base locations, they give an indication of some of the potential locations you could be based at.

We will tfore endeavour to offer you a vacancy within a 60-minute commute of your home location.

New entrants to the Civil Service will be expected to join at the entry point salary for the advertised band.

Existing Civil Servants will have their salary calculated in accordance with the Departments pay on