Progress Facilitator - Prisons - Reed : Job Details

Are you passionate about working with disadvantaged people, improving life skills, removing barriers to learning/employment and promoting independence? If so, read on to find out how to join the UK’s leading Further Education recruiter with additional benefits, offers and referral schemes.

Reed FE are a leading recruitment agency working with colleges, prisons, universities, and training providers across the UK. We are always looking for talented/aspiring learning support assistants to join our team and help us deliver high-quality education to learners.

Progress Facilitator - Prisons

Doncaster

Permanent, full time

£27,500

This is an exciting opportunity to work within the Creating Future Opportunities (CFO) Evolution Programme.

The CFO know that people with strong foundations in place to make a success of their lives are less likely to re-offend.

The aim is to help hard-to-reach individuals prepare for engagement with core prison services and their eventual release.

Day to Day of the role:

• Providing advice, guidance, coaching, mentoring, and support to participants through regular one-on-one meetings and group interventions.
• Offer continuous resettlement support.
• Delivery of group sessions.
• Develop and deliver high-quality, engaging group sessions to motivate participants to attend and complete their activities.
• Monitor and track participants' progress, including through reviews, to ensure high attendance, achievement rates, and progression.
• Provide participants with structured feedback and set development objectives.
• Build strong relationships with internal colleagues and other agencies providing ongoing and pre-release support.

Requirements:

• Experience working with disadvantaged individuals, such as ex-offenders or those disaffected by mainstream services.
• Experience in training, guidance, advice, pastoral support and counselling.
• Ability and confident to deliver workshops on a one-to-one basis and group basis.
• A warm and approachable character, who can work with empathy to build relationships with participants.
• Understanding of the issues impacting the rehabilitation of offenders.

"All candidates who register with Reed Further Education will have 2 years’ referencing taken up and will be required to have a DBS check completed. All offers are conditional upon satisfactory background checks - If you are on the Barred List, it is against the law to apply and to be hired for a role that includes regulated activity with the concerned group.

Reed Further Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment by completing mandatory training within 6 weeks of your first assignment and annually thereafter."

Benefits of working for Reed Further Education/our client:

• Exclusive representation to leading FE colleges and training providers in the area
• 1-2-1 Specialist Consultant who will search for jobs on your behalf. CV writing and job interview tips!
• The ability to sign up to a Health Cash Plan and Reed Discount Club.
• Entitlement to Statutory Sick Pay, Statutory Maternity, Paternity and Adoption Pay, Parental Leave and Antenatal/Pre-Adoption Appointment Payment
• Access to Training and Development - Reed Assessment Centre - Reed Learning.
• Eye Test and Spectacle Vouchers
• Great referral bonus’ (up to £200 per successful referral!)

To apply for this role, please send us your updated CV by clicking 'ApplyNow'. Your application should demonstrate your passion for educational support and your commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of disadvantaged people.

Not looking for support roles? We are also registering lecturers, assessors and technicians through to other FE positions including HR, finance, facilities, administrators. We also have a specialist team of interim and senior management consultants with over 20 years’ experience in the sector.