22479 - Approved Premises Residential Worker - South Yorkshire in Sheffield

The annualised hours working pattern offers flexibility to choose your working days, within business needs. However, you will be required to submit your availability to your Line Manager three months in advance, which must include a mix of night, weekend and weekday shifts. Please note, this role does not include any working from home. Approved Premises deliver a critical public protection service and Residential Workers are required to be on-site. You will work shifts on a rolling rota covering 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, including weekends and all bank holidays.

All appointable candidates from this campaign who cannot be offered immediate positions will be held on a merit list for 12 months. This will be used to fill future Residential Worker vacancies at the Approved Premises. As this is a forward-facing role, you will be expected to attend a face-to-face interview, during which you will be introduced to the Approved Premises environment. This is a mobile-grade role, meaning you may be required to cover shifts at sites other than your home base. Any such arrangements will be made in accordance with policy.

Overview of the approved premises role - Prison and Probation Jobs Helping to keep the public safe. Giving people the chance to turn their lives around. Building a rewarding professional career. It’s an extraordinary role. There are many reasons to join the Probation Service. What will yours be?

Approved Premises - Residential Worker Our Residential Workers work within Approved Premises, working with offenders who are on release from prison and making the transition back into the community. Approved Premises are primarily for offenders who have been released on licence and who require a high level of supervision.

Important: This role is based within an Approved Premises. Hybrid or home working is not available for this position. This role is not eligible for a new Skilled Worker visa, in accordance with current immigration rules. Further details are within the advert.

About the role: The job holder will work as part of a team providing 24-hour cover at an Approved Premises (AP) including security and monitoring services. The job holder will undertake a full range of work with the people on probation whilst resident at the Approved Premises. This will include providing support in contributing to the risk management and sentence plan objectives and reporting any significant changes relating to risk and/or re-offending to any non-compliance within agreed enforcement procedures to ensure that people on probation resident at an AP and the fabric of it are kept safe and secure throughout their shift.

You’ll play an important role in offenders’ rehabilitation, encouraging them to make positive changes in their lives and successfully resettle into their communities. It’s an opportunity to build a rewarding professional career. You’ll gain experience of working with offenders, making a real difference to residents, the public and the wider community.

This role operates on a mobile grade, which means you may be required to work across different Approved Premises sites as needed. This could involve covering shifts at locations other than your usual base. Any such arrangements will always be made in line with policy.

If you are successful in the recruitment process to join the Probation Service, your starting salary will be £28,064 (Pro-rata for Part-time roles). Residential Workers role requires substantial out of hours work, both waking night duty and weekend work. Regular unsocial hours which attract premium rates of pay in addition to advertised annual salary.

• Monday to Friday: 7pm to 8am premium payment of 30%.
• Weekend: 8am Saturday – 8am Monday premium payment of 50%.
• Public/Bank Holidays: 8am to 8am premium payment of 50%: in addition, time off in lieu for actual hours worked is applicable.

About you: You do not need a degree for this role. We are much more interested in your personal qualities. Ideally, with experience of working with people who have social or personal difficulties, you will be empathetic, patient, and resilient. A good level of numeracy and literacy is also required as the role involves some report writing.

About us: The Probation Service works with offenders who are pre-release or post-release from prison or serving community sentences. Our role is to support their rehabilitation and protect the public. People come from all walks of life to form one team in the Probation Service. Join us and you will be part of a supportive team that thrives on sharing knowledge and expertise. 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.

Right to work in the UK: You must have the right to work in the UK and Civil Service. This role is not eligible for a new Skilled Worker visa. From 22 July 2025, the Government introduced changes to the eligibility criteria for Skilled Worker visas.

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 closed. You will then receive further instruction on the outcome of your application.

Additional Information: Where 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.

Benefits: The MoJ offers a range of benefits:

• Annual Leave: 25 days on appointment and will increase to 30 days after five years’ service, plus public holidays.
• Pension: The National Probation Service is covered by the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
• Training: The Ministry of Justice is committed to staff development and offers an extensive range of training and development opportunities.
• Networks: The opportunity to join employee-run networks that have been established to provide advice and support.

Eligibility: All candidates are subject to security and identity checks prior to taking up post.

Support: A range of ‘Family Friendly’ policies such as opportunities to work reduced hours or job share.

Working for the Civil Service: The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants. We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition.

Diversity & Inclusion: The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found.

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