10769 - HMP Highpoint - Facilitator (Group Worker)
| Posting date: | 10 October 2025 |
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| Salary: | £33,275 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 24 October 2025 |
| Location: | Newmarket, Suffolk |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Ministry of Justice |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 10769 |
Summary
Overview
The jobs in this Group Profile will deliver a range of group based interventions which include assessment, group and individual treatment and provides support interventions function in the delivery of services.
These roles are non-operational with no line management responsibilities and are not rotational.
These roles may involve contact with prisoners depending on their area of work.
Characteristics
Typical tasks associated with this Group Profile include:
• Deliver interventions in a group or individual basis, arranging the session and resources required
• Publicises and explains interventions to prisoners, staff and stakeholders
• Approaches potential participants, explains the programme, engages and motivates and ensures informed consent
• Interviews and contributes towards selecting prisoners against fixed criteria of suitability to attend selected intervention. May administer standardised tests/assessments where appropriate
• Prepares for programmes and sessions including understanding the material and considering the best way to deliver it given the range of needs and problems presented by group participants
• Attend post programme reviews to feedback on reports / objective and collate post programme materials
• Prepare rooms for delivery and make sure that handouts and materials for each session are available and conform to the course standard
• Co-facilitate the delivery of interventions and at the end of each session have a de-brief with the co-facilitator
• Produce up to date notes on each participant at the end of each session
• Provides additional support, review and catch-up sessions to participants where necessary and conducts progress reviews for each prisoner during the course
• Writes a course report for each prisoner at the end of each programme where appropriate and provides an overall course report summarising the course’s impact where appropriate
• Set objectives for each prisoner following the conclusion of the programme
• Contributes towards sentence planning and offender management processes
• Undertakes required supervision with the relevant treatment manager for the programme to ensure they maintain the quality standards required for this work.
Job Descriptions relating to this Group Profile
The job holder once in post will be in matched to a job description; a sample list is shown below. The post is rotational so the job holder could during their career carry out the role of different job descriptions.
• Facilitator : Group Worker
• Facilitator : Substance Misuse
• Facilitator : Learning Literacy
• Facilitator : Learning Skills Employment Advice & Guidance Wales
• Facilitator : Victim Offender Conferencing (Restorative Justice)
• Facilitator : Assistant Forensic Psychologist
• Facilitator : Creative Arts Coordinator
• Facilitator : Literacy Support Officer
Essential Skills/ Qualifications/ Accreditation/ Registration
Job holders must complete specific training in their specialism once they take up post. They will need good written and verbal communication skills. An ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence through the medium of English or (where specified in Wales) Welsh.
Behaviours
• Communicating and Influencing
• Leadership
• Developing Self and Others
• Managing a Quality Service
• Working Together
Hours of Work and Allowances
37 hour working week
The jobs in this Group Profile will deliver a range of group based interventions which include assessment, group and individual treatment and provides support interventions function in the delivery of services.
These roles are non-operational with no line management responsibilities and are not rotational.
These roles may involve contact with prisoners depending on their area of work.
Characteristics
Typical tasks associated with this Group Profile include:
• Deliver interventions in a group or individual basis, arranging the session and resources required
• Publicises and explains interventions to prisoners, staff and stakeholders
• Approaches potential participants, explains the programme, engages and motivates and ensures informed consent
• Interviews and contributes towards selecting prisoners against fixed criteria of suitability to attend selected intervention. May administer standardised tests/assessments where appropriate
• Prepares for programmes and sessions including understanding the material and considering the best way to deliver it given the range of needs and problems presented by group participants
• Attend post programme reviews to feedback on reports / objective and collate post programme materials
• Prepare rooms for delivery and make sure that handouts and materials for each session are available and conform to the course standard
• Co-facilitate the delivery of interventions and at the end of each session have a de-brief with the co-facilitator
• Produce up to date notes on each participant at the end of each session
• Provides additional support, review and catch-up sessions to participants where necessary and conducts progress reviews for each prisoner during the course
• Writes a course report for each prisoner at the end of each programme where appropriate and provides an overall course report summarising the course’s impact where appropriate
• Set objectives for each prisoner following the conclusion of the programme
• Contributes towards sentence planning and offender management processes
• Undertakes required supervision with the relevant treatment manager for the programme to ensure they maintain the quality standards required for this work.
Job Descriptions relating to this Group Profile
The job holder once in post will be in matched to a job description; a sample list is shown below. The post is rotational so the job holder could during their career carry out the role of different job descriptions.
• Facilitator : Group Worker
• Facilitator : Substance Misuse
• Facilitator : Learning Literacy
• Facilitator : Learning Skills Employment Advice & Guidance Wales
• Facilitator : Victim Offender Conferencing (Restorative Justice)
• Facilitator : Assistant Forensic Psychologist
• Facilitator : Creative Arts Coordinator
• Facilitator : Literacy Support Officer
Essential Skills/ Qualifications/ Accreditation/ Registration
Job holders must complete specific training in their specialism once they take up post. They will need good written and verbal communication skills. An ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence through the medium of English or (where specified in Wales) Welsh.
Behaviours
• Communicating and Influencing
• Leadership
• Developing Self and Others
• Managing a Quality Service
• Working Together
Hours of Work and Allowances
37 hour working week