HM Prison and Probation Service
Programme Facilitator - Bicester (South Central) Outcome in a Day (Ref: 19718)
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Programme Facilitator - Bicester (South Central) Outcome in a Day (Ref: 19718)
Job Profile: Programmes Facilitator in the Probation Service, South Central
Location
NPS UNITS 9 AND 10 TALISMAN BUSINESS CENTRE, BICESTER, OX26 6HR;
Job Summary
For full details, please refer to the Job Description.
Overview
Helping offenders break harmful cycles and build more positive, crime-free futures is crucial to public safety and community well-being. This role is about reclaiming lives by addressing the root causes of offences—impulsive behaviour, relationship breakdowns, domestic abuse, illicit drug use—through targeted interventions.
As a Programmes Facilitator, you’ll deliver this via a mix of live frontline programmes and structured interventions. With supportive supervision and onboarding, you’ll ensure these sessions challenge unhelpful behaviour while nurturing constructive alternatives. Safeguarding, risk management, and collating data to track progress will form part of your key tasks.
The Impact
By the end of the programme, participants should gain:
- Better control of their emotions and thinking
- Improved skills for messy day-to-day life scenarios
- A strong structure around their own rehabilitation and needs
Projection: Your work aligns with long-term goals of reducing victimisation, reoffending rates and leveraging community oversight.
Key Responsibilities
Delivery of Programmes
- Accredit participants in the Home and Court Pleased Offering (HCA) strand, helping them identify creative alternatives for movement towards desistance
- Support participants in contested or ‘difficult’ scenarios, staying calm under pressure to mediate conflict progression
- Safeguarding: Recognise and act on concerns around violence, abuse or neglect using clear safeguarding escalation pathways
Supporting Others
- Dynamic working with colleagues for better service coordination: Probation Officers, Treatment Managers, Domestic Abuse S&Ps
- Networking initiatives to foster preventive community relationships and advocacy
- Joint protection committees against incidents of multiple safeguarding concerns
Admin & Reporting
- Regular documentation of credits earned/withdrawn under programme rules
- Demonstrating clinical supervision competence and safeguarding leadership reviews
Skills & Competency Areas
- Presentation & Facilitation Skills
- Recognising Growth through PSR links (using a detailed monitoring instrument)
- Pro-social modelling, motivational interviewing, tools that support clients in identifying ‘pros’/‘cons’ of change
- With own personal values in check to ensure impartiality
- Data tracking: Tracking credit accrual and monitoring effectiveness
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Additional Equalities Note
- Supporting participants experiencing mental or emotional distress in a trauma-informed manner
Requirements
Experience & Qualifications
- Practical experience in group facilitation (conflict resolution or restorative circles preferred)
- Working knowledge of a safeguarding framework, preferably supporting vulnerable groups with needs assessment skills
- Qualifications in conjunction with programme structural interventions and safeguarding
Day-to-Day Work Demands
- Confirming participants’ eligibility for programmes and enabling progressing into them
- Observing and detecting subtleties in group dynamics (risk indicators vs. genuine engagement)
Essential Skills
- Skills in persuasion & negotiation, to build collaborative progress and manage complex situations
- Efficiency in engaging creative workarounds (multidisciplinary perspectives) to support the most difficult cases
Significant Advising Role
- Cost-benefit analysis to help combat prevailing emotional resistance among clients
- Meeting safeguards for vulnerable clients with family/professional involvement plans
Expected Work Pattern
- Majority of most evenings at venues across Oxon/Yorkshire/South East
- Travel expenses reimbursed (CW/Travel Policy applies)
- Approx. 3 unsocial hours/clinic roles a week plus weekends
Competency Protocols during Probation Period
- Full participation in facilitator proficiency tracking process via programme portals
- Ongoing assessment against skilled facilitation metrics (can be shadowed by trained colleagues)
Civil Service Details
Starting Pay: £28,064
- Additional unsocial hours premium:
- 30% for evenings
- 50% for Saturdays
- Civil Service pay progression through Competency-Based Awareness (CBA)
Benefits
- Algeria Health Insurance metables +10% annual salary add-on if opted for Antigua package option
- Family pension option 28.97% matching scheme
- Retirement savings plan (Lynworth) with accrual start value after 8 years
Assessment Flipchart
What You’ll be Judged On
- Underpinned by Civil Service ADNOC-Compliant Success Profiling (valuing strength of outcome over number of qualifications)
- Facilitation
- Collaboration
- Team Coaching
- Learning Gains
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Process
- Initial Form-Based Check: CV Submission + Chronicle of Disability/ARE (if applicable)
- Interview Phase: Practical competency demonstration in ‘Pre-approval’ facilitation exercise
- Probation Insight: Assessment via 6-month supervised performance evaluations
People Specification
Role Readiness
- Training in structured groupwork methods (consulted against Restraint Workforce University’s CDT CoIT)
Experience
- Confirmed understanding of Facilitation Success Framework metrics applies in direct client engagement landscapes
Networking
- Social media interaction circle with probation practice peers via ‘restorative justice’ hashtags for team awareness updates
Storage
- Access to HMPPS’ Fasinet portal to track offenders(service integration tracking) aligned with risk assessment professionals
About The Unit
Meet dynamic colleagues across background coming from fields ranging from community peer-sharing in offender networks, educational psychology / 아마요우스 training education and recent social sectors.
Diversity
- Ensuring in-house music/artefacts to spark creative approaches in sessions tackles retention of cultural dialogue
- Active participation in multi-interest staff barge fights to advance virtual step square team events
Compliance
- Meeting Directorate of Professional Conduct requirements
- Certification in explicit risk-deepening scenarios such as Child Sexual Exploitation
Contact
For applicant queries: [moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@resourcing.soprasteria.co.uk](mailto:moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@resourcing.soprasteria.co.uk telesy: 0845 241 5358)
Formal complaints: involving SSCL (moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@gov.sscl.com)
Social Conceptaries
- Recruitment process integrated with Google Assistant App for live status notifications
- Nationality rules via HMGOV booking portals
Ethics
- Adherence to Civil Service Code yet informed Increase in policies (both total care, conflict of interest guidelines)
Candidate Confirmation
No heavy formal qualifications required without mentorship.
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