Community Integration Officer
Job Introduction
The role is to deliver provision which facilitates community integration through Accommodation; Education, Training and Employment, and Finance, Benefit and Debt input for referred offenders.
To ensure offender access to the provision which promotes community integration and reduces reoffending, by working with offenders, colleagues & partners in the community to;
- reduce unemployment through referral to Education, Training and Employment provision
- improve life circumstances through supporting offenders’ search for appropriate and sustainable housing
- support offenders with Finance, Benefit and Debt options and solutions.
Role Responsibility
- Upon receipt of referral from the responsible officer or resettlement team – assess, advise and seek solutions for offender’s community integration needs.
- Design and deliver an effective action/achievement plan with the offender using specialist agencies as applicable. This should be based on an initial assessment of the offender’s risk, needs and abilities. Progress and outcomes delivered should be recorded, monitored, reviewed and updated regularly and in line with contract requirements.
- Contribute to the assessment and, where appropriate, to the review of the risk posed by offenders and take the necessary actions in respect of any activities/engagement with service users, including attention to personal safety.
- Maintain contact, as agreed with the Responsible Officer, with service users in accordance with the requirements of the service. This includes maintaining a professional relationship and being a good role model to offenders.
- Undertake Supervision Plan reviews, identifying and maintaining focus on achievement of the desired Community Integration outcome for the service user, ensuring they are assisted to prepare for and participate in suitable opportunities.
- Arrange for service users to partake and actively engage in decisions that affect them, ensuring they have input in shaping the nature of services delivered to/with them, by providing information, requesting feedback, consulting, and facilitating their participation in other innovative ways.
- Ensure that in all contacts with offenders, they are alert to the needs of, and any harm that may be posed to children and adults with care and support needs. In the event of any of these safeguarding issues being identified they will consult with a manager and comply with the SET procedures.
- Report immediately to the Responsible Officer when the offender’s risk escalates or a change in circumstances occurs.
- Deliver one-to-one and groupwork interventions to offenders as agreed with the CRC.
- Liaise and work collaboratively with Responsible Officers, TTG partner staff, mentors, NOMS staff, CRC staff and other agencies in relation to community integration plans and interventions, in particular in order to minimise the risk of reoffending and risk of harm and to promote the safety of communities.
The Ideal Candidate
Competences
- DIVERSITY
- RISK, PROTECTING INDIVIDUALS
- TACTICAL SKILLS
- COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION
- ENGAGE INDIVIDUALS TO CHANGE
- CASE MANAGEMENT/TECHNICAL SKILLS
Package Description
Salary £23,268 per annum
37 hours per week, 27 days holiday + 8 bank holidays, defined contribution pension scheme, company sick pay, group discount scheme.
There is an expectation that operational staff work some evenings and weekends to enable service users to be supervised without jeopardising their employment.
About the Company
In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs some 36,000 employees to deliver integrated facilities management services to clients at over 2,000 locations in the energy, corporate, healthcare, education, leisure, defence and justice sectors. With an annual turnover of over £1bn, we provide everything from catering, cleaning and reception to security, laboratory and grounds maintenance services, enabling our clients to focus on their core business.
At Sodexo we are committed to a leading role in promoting equality opportunities and valuing diversity and inclusion. We seek to create a work environment based on mutual respect for all individuals, building a culture that appreciates and values the experiences and skills brought by each person to benefit our organisation and work hard to ensure that all people, whatever their race, colour, sex, gender identity disability, nationality, national or ethnic origin, religion or belief, marital/partnership or family status, sexual orientation, age, social class, educational background, employment status, working pattern, are welcome to and included within our organisation.
We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations.
We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process.
