Prison Employment Advisor
Date: 2026-09-28T01:30:58
Location: Preston, Shropshire, GB, SY4 4
Salary: £27,015-£30,612 Per Annum
Contract Type: Permanent, Full-Time
Job Description
We are looking for an enthusiastic and confident Prison Employment Advisor to help us deliver the CFO Evolution contract in the North-West. The contract works with offenders in custody and Through the Gate to help them address their resettlement goals. The job involves working with people on remand or serving custodial and community-based sentences, supervised by the National Probation Service, to engage them in learning, training and employment opportunities, either through one-to-one or group work. This is a fantastic opportunity to make a real difference to people and communities.
You’ll need to be:
- confident and proactive
- a good communicator with a non-judgemental approach
- effective at working with partner organisations to ensure the best results for our participants
- comfortable working on databases and have a strong attention to detail
We are especially looking for applicants who have experience of helping offenders or other vulnerable groups to move forward in their lives. If you're someone who can really connect with people to help them to progress, work in a prison environment, embrace the quality and compliance requirements of the contract and have the skills to work towards individual targets, we'd love to hear from you.
We’ll give you all the training you need to do the job and to get established in the new role. Are you ready to join a high-performing team and make a contribution to changing lives?
A full job description can be downloaded at the bottom of this page.
The closing date for this vacancy is 01-Oct-#####. Interviews are expected to take place on 06-Oct#####6 via MS Teams.
The CFO Evolution is HMP Lancaster Farms delivered by the HMPPS CFO programme.
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Prison Employment Advisor in Preston employer: Hmp Lancaster Farms
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