11707 - Community Payback Supervisor - Cardiff and Vale
| Posting date: | 14 November 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £26,475 to £31,650 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 December 2025 |
| Location: | Cardiff, Cardiff County |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Ministry of Justice |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 11707 |
Summary
**Please note: Candidates must hold a full UK Manual Driving Licence when applying for this role, this is a mandatory technical requirement in order to carry out this role. We cannot accept candidates who hold an automatic Driving Licence only.**
Make a Meaningful Impact Every Day
Are you looking for a role where your leadership can truly change lives and strengthen communities. As a Community Payback Supervisor, you’ll play a vital part in helping people on probation rebuild their futures while delivering visible improvements across local areas within Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan.
This is a hands on, people focused role where you’ll supervise and support individuals completing unpaid work as part of their unpaid work sentence. Through your guidance, they’ll gain valuable skills, experience a sense of purpose, and contribute to projects that benefit the wider public helping to reduce reoffending and aid rehabilitation.
You’ll lead teams working on a wide range of community-based projects, including:
• Landscaping and gardening
• Sports pitch maintenance
• Cooking and food preparation
• Woodland preservation
• Public Park and coastal pathway maintenance
• Church and sports club renovation
• Painting and decorating
• Flood prevention and public area maintenance and improvements
• Small building work
• Beach surveys
• Supporting hospitals and residential homes
• Manufacturing garden furniture and other items
• Grow plants and vegetables on allotments
• Work in partnership with local and National Charities
In addition to practical supervision, basic IT skills are essential to ensure clear communication between internal departments, partner organisations, and beneficiaries. Accurate and timely information sharing helps maintain safety, track progress, and deliver a joined-up service that supports rehabilitation and community confidence. Every project is an opportunity to make a positive difference whether it’s restoring a local green space, helping maintain vital public facilities, or giving someone the tools to turn their life around.
If you’re motivated by purpose, enjoy both indoor and outdoor working and with a diverse range of people, and want a job where your actions directly contribute to safer, stronger communities, we’d love to hear from you..
If you are successful in the recruitment process to join the Probation Service, your starting salary will be £26,475
Please note that all salaries are as advertised and are non-negotiable, for new starters joining the service you will commence at the bottom of the scale. If you have any concerns regarding the salary range, please ensure these are raised during the interview process.
Please note: Community Payback Supervisors will be expected to work weekends as part of their normal working pattern. You will be paid a higher rate for weekend days you do work.
The Probation Service offers the opportunity for annual pay progression through a Competency Based Framework (CBF), which if eligible, will see your pay increase. CBF is designed to enable you to move up through the pay band range as your competence grows.
New entrants are expected to join on the minimum of the pay band.
Probation Service also increase their pay band ranges annually in line with Civil Service Pay guidance, which will also apply an increase to band pay ranges where applicable.
Overview of the job
This is an operational role directly supervising work groups of offenders serving a community sentence. This may include driving service vehicles to transport people or equipment. The post holder will be responsible for all work site supervision tasks and will work with service users to ensure that all tasks are carried out to the best of their ability. This will include working alongside people to demonstrate good practice as necessary.
Summary
The post holder will work on varied projects that involve practical tasks that should be seen by the public to be a credible punishment providing reparation to the community. The post holder will exercise appropriate authority to maintain discipline and good behaviour within working groups, alerting the relevant staff to any infringement of discipline or behaviour.
The post holder will contribute towards the rehabilitative potential of the sentence and will support some service users to gain employment skills through a positive work experience with the opportunity to gain vocational or skills-based training.
Staff are expected to contribute towards review and evaluation of all aspects of service delivery and to contribute towards a culture of continuous improvement.
Post holders may be required to undertake weekend working as part of their normal pattern of working. The work may involve working alongside volunteers or staff from partner organisations.
Responsibilities, Activities & Duties
The job holder will be required to carry out the following responsibilities, activities and duties:
• Conduct Pre-Placement Unpaid Work Induction sessions.
• Conduct a start of the day ‘tool box’ talk to ensure all service users understand the task at hand and safe working practice and motivate and support service users to complete their Order.
• Follow work directions within the project placement file.
• Ensure Health & Safety procedures are followed, alerting the relevant staff to any risk, ensuring that any associated paperwork is completed accurately and on time as required, including contributing to the review of placement risk assessments.
• Ensure that appropriate tools, equipment and supplies are available in accordance with local procedure and that instructions for safe use are followed by service users.
• Conduct a dynamic risk assessment to ensure all hazards are noted and managed.
Make a Meaningful Impact Every Day
Are you looking for a role where your leadership can truly change lives and strengthen communities. As a Community Payback Supervisor, you’ll play a vital part in helping people on probation rebuild their futures while delivering visible improvements across local areas within Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan.
This is a hands on, people focused role where you’ll supervise and support individuals completing unpaid work as part of their unpaid work sentence. Through your guidance, they’ll gain valuable skills, experience a sense of purpose, and contribute to projects that benefit the wider public helping to reduce reoffending and aid rehabilitation.
You’ll lead teams working on a wide range of community-based projects, including:
• Landscaping and gardening
• Sports pitch maintenance
• Cooking and food preparation
• Woodland preservation
• Public Park and coastal pathway maintenance
• Church and sports club renovation
• Painting and decorating
• Flood prevention and public area maintenance and improvements
• Small building work
• Beach surveys
• Supporting hospitals and residential homes
• Manufacturing garden furniture and other items
• Grow plants and vegetables on allotments
• Work in partnership with local and National Charities
In addition to practical supervision, basic IT skills are essential to ensure clear communication between internal departments, partner organisations, and beneficiaries. Accurate and timely information sharing helps maintain safety, track progress, and deliver a joined-up service that supports rehabilitation and community confidence. Every project is an opportunity to make a positive difference whether it’s restoring a local green space, helping maintain vital public facilities, or giving someone the tools to turn their life around.
If you’re motivated by purpose, enjoy both indoor and outdoor working and with a diverse range of people, and want a job where your actions directly contribute to safer, stronger communities, we’d love to hear from you..
If you are successful in the recruitment process to join the Probation Service, your starting salary will be £26,475
Please note that all salaries are as advertised and are non-negotiable, for new starters joining the service you will commence at the bottom of the scale. If you have any concerns regarding the salary range, please ensure these are raised during the interview process.
Please note: Community Payback Supervisors will be expected to work weekends as part of their normal working pattern. You will be paid a higher rate for weekend days you do work.
The Probation Service offers the opportunity for annual pay progression through a Competency Based Framework (CBF), which if eligible, will see your pay increase. CBF is designed to enable you to move up through the pay band range as your competence grows.
New entrants are expected to join on the minimum of the pay band.
Probation Service also increase their pay band ranges annually in line with Civil Service Pay guidance, which will also apply an increase to band pay ranges where applicable.
Overview of the job
This is an operational role directly supervising work groups of offenders serving a community sentence. This may include driving service vehicles to transport people or equipment. The post holder will be responsible for all work site supervision tasks and will work with service users to ensure that all tasks are carried out to the best of their ability. This will include working alongside people to demonstrate good practice as necessary.
Summary
The post holder will work on varied projects that involve practical tasks that should be seen by the public to be a credible punishment providing reparation to the community. The post holder will exercise appropriate authority to maintain discipline and good behaviour within working groups, alerting the relevant staff to any infringement of discipline or behaviour.
The post holder will contribute towards the rehabilitative potential of the sentence and will support some service users to gain employment skills through a positive work experience with the opportunity to gain vocational or skills-based training.
Staff are expected to contribute towards review and evaluation of all aspects of service delivery and to contribute towards a culture of continuous improvement.
Post holders may be required to undertake weekend working as part of their normal pattern of working. The work may involve working alongside volunteers or staff from partner organisations.
Responsibilities, Activities & Duties
The job holder will be required to carry out the following responsibilities, activities and duties:
• Conduct Pre-Placement Unpaid Work Induction sessions.
• Conduct a start of the day ‘tool box’ talk to ensure all service users understand the task at hand and safe working practice and motivate and support service users to complete their Order.
• Follow work directions within the project placement file.
• Ensure Health & Safety procedures are followed, alerting the relevant staff to any risk, ensuring that any associated paperwork is completed accurately and on time as required, including contributing to the review of placement risk assessments.
• Ensure that appropriate tools, equipment and supplies are available in accordance with local procedure and that instructions for safe use are followed by service users.
• Conduct a dynamic risk assessment to ensure all hazards are noted and managed.