Waythrough
Criminal Justice Support Worker
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Criminal Justice Support Worker
Location: Riverside Court, Barnstaple
Working Hours: 37
Contract Type: Fixed-term
Salary: £25,877 - £30,868
Please note: the starting salary for this role will be £25,877 due to budgeting.
Make a real difference in your community
Are you passionate about helping others live safer, healthier, and more independent lives?
Join Waythrough, one of the UK’s leading mental health and social support charities, and make a lasting impact every day.
About the Role
Join the Together Drug and Alcohol Service for Devon and become part of our supportive Criminal Justice Team. Based primarily in Barnstaple, you'll occasionally work across our Exeter and Newton Abbot hubs, with travel expenses reimbursed when required.
This is a varied and rewarding role where you'll support service users through welfare calls, assessments, record keeping, and partnership working, while helping the team respond to changing service needs.
Whether you're looking to build your experience in Criminal Justice or take the next step in your career, this role offers valuable development opportunities, hands-on experience, and potential pathways for progression.
If you're adaptable, motivated, and passionate about making a positive difference, we'd love to hear from you. Apply today.
As a Criminal Justice Support Worker, you will be responsible for:
- Supporting a caseload of our service users, including delivering a range of psychosocial interventions.
- Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team to undertake ongoing assessments, risk assessments, and appropriate referrals within the community.
- Facilitating group sessions with a range of individuals of varying backgrounds including SMART Recovery.
- Working with partnership agencies to ensure continuity of care and support.
- Providing duty cover for individuals accessing our services.
About you
We’re looking for an individual with a real passion for working in a recovery-focused environment. You’ll hold some transferable skills, ideally from working in a similar environment or sector.
You’ll also have:
- A knowledge and understanding of substance misuse and recovery.
- Experience of managing, planning, and prioritising your own workload, delivering work of a high standard.
- An understanding of safeguarding.
- An understanding of group working, group dynamics, and group facilitation.
- Excellent communication, organisation, and time management skills.
However, if you don't have direct experience, we have an intensive training skills academy as our induction that will help equip you with lots of the need-to-know information. The ability to work well in a team environment alongside a range of people and organisations.
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A "Day in the life" from a current Criminal Justice Support Worker:
"I am currently employed as a part-time Criminal Justice Support Worker. What drew me to this role was the part-time hours which suited my current situation and having recently spent 23 years working for Essex Probation Service, the role appealed to me.
As I progressed within the role, I was able to embrace the diversity of the role, the colourful characters I met, listening to their current situation and together work on a plan to hopefully help them to address alcohol or substance use. The role also provided me the opportunity to cover different parts of the County, apart from my base in Exeter, covering for staff shortages in Newton Abbott, Tavistock, and Barnstaple.
Throughout my short time, I have been supported from both management and staff, including some thorough training opportunities to help me to make sense of the new role I have been offered.
The main appeal for me was not only working with some fantastic people but also the variety of the role."
What We Offer
We value the people who make a difference every day. Alongside meaningful work, you’ll enjoy a comprehensive benefits package:
- 27 days’ annual leave, rising to 32 after 1 year (plus bank holidays).
- Pension scheme with 4.5% employer contribution, matched up to 6.5%.
- Life assurance (3× annual salary).
- Enhanced sick pay and family-friendly pay.
- Birthday leave and the option to buy up to 5 extra days’ annual leave.
- Professional fee reimbursement for relevant qualifications.
- 24/7 online GP access and Employee Assistance Programme.
- Recognition and long service awards via our Way to Go and Aspirations portals.
- £500 Recommend a Friend bonus.
- Cycle to Work scheme and Credit Union membership.
- Discounts via Blue Light Card, Charity Discounts, Extras, and Tickets for Good.
- Free will writing service and wellbeing initiatives throughout the year.
Inclusion and Accessibility
Waythrough is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and communities — especially those with lived experience of the issues we support.
If you need adjustments or support to apply, please email recruitmentteam@waythrough.org.uk.
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Please note: The salary listed reflects the full earning potential for this role. Starting salaries depend on experience and progression within the band.
About Waythrough
Waythrough was formed in 2024 following the merger of Humankind and Richmond Fellowship. Together, we’ve created one of the largest mental health and social support charities in England.
Every year, we support around 125,000 people through nearly 200 services — and it’s all made possible by our 3,500 brilliant staff and volunteers.
Make a real difference in your community
Are you passionate about helping others live safer, healthier, more independent lives? Join our team at Waythrough and support people facing challenges around mental health, substance use, housing, or domestic abuse. This is more than just a job — it’s a chance to build meaningful relationships and create lasting change.
What We Offer
We value the people who make a difference every day. Alongside meaningful work, you’ll enjoy a comprehensive benefits package:
- 27 days’ annual leave, rising to 32 after 1 year (plus bank holidays).
- Pension scheme with 4.5% employer contribution, matched up to 6.5%.
- Life assurance (3× annual salary).
- Enhanced sick pay and family-friendly pay.
- Birthday leave and the option to buy up to 5 extra days’ annual leave.
- Professional fee reimbursement for relevant qualifications.
- 24/7 online GP access and Employee Assistance Programme.
- Recognition and long service awards via our Way to Go and Aspirations portals.
- £500 Recommend a Friend bonus.
- Cycle to Work scheme and Credit Union membership.
- Discounts via Blue Light Card, Charity Discounts, Extras, and Tickets for Good.
- Free will writing service and wellbeing initiatives throughout the year.
Inclusion and accessibility
Waythrough is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and communities, especially those with lived experience of the issues we support.
We have signed up to the Disability Confident Scheme — all applicants are welcome, and adjustments can be made to enable fair participation.
If you need adjustments or support to apply, please email our recruitment team: recruitmentteam@waythrough.org.uk.
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