Community Payback Supervisors

Community Payback Placement Coordinators

£25,310 - £30,968

Nationwide

Community Payback changes lives.

Be part of it.

Are you looking for a rewarding career where you can motivate and inspire others to make positive changes in their lives, and build better and safer places to live?

A career in community payback gives you the power to make a positive impact on offenders’ lives as well as your community.

Community Payback (CP) isn’t just an alternative to custody. It’s a way of helping to create better outcomes for people on probation and improve communities. As a Community Payback supervisor, you’ll be at its heart, leading teams of people doing a wide variety of unpaid community service work. You’ll help them make the most of their time on Community Payback and to get their lives back on track – whether that's learning new skills to increase their chances of employment or thinking through ways to reduce their likelihood of reoffending.

The role

As a placement coordinator, you’ll be responsible for establishing and maintaining working relationships with a range of stakeholders – including local authorities and charities – to make sure there are sufficient numbers of Community Payback work placements. This will include exploring opportunities for people to access on-the-job training and education to develop their skills and increase their chances of employment while they complete their unpaid work hours.

You’ll support your Community Payback operations manager to ensure all the placements comply with health and safety legislation. This will include conducting on-site placement assessments, occasionally at weekends or during the evening.

In this busy and varied role, you’ll also be responsible for planning rotas to ensure Community Payback supervisors and people sentenced to Community Payback are allocated to projects and have the necessary equipment.

Community Payback placement coordinators will be expected to work weekends when needed. This may be to cover for Community Payback supervisors, or to visit Community Payback project sites – such as schools which aren’t accessible on weekdays – to complete project risk assessments or meet beneficiaries, for example. You will be paid a higher rate for any weekend days you do work.

About you

Personal attributes are more important than qualifications or specific work experience. Ready and willing to be a positive role model, you’ll have the ability to build rapport with a diverse range of people and will be confident about supervising small groups and maintaining discipline. You’ll also enjoy passing on skills and knowledge, perhaps in areas such as building, decorating or gardening.

You’ll be working with a diverse mix of individuals, so it’s important that you’re emphatic, a good communicator and happy to take the lead.​

It’s all about supporting offenders on their journey and making your community a better place. Whether that’s building benches or cleaning the streets, you’re there because you genuinely want to help people.

Every day brings new challenges in this varied and meaningful role, so you’ll be someone who relishes solving problems in the workplace. As Community Payback groups run seven days a week, this role requires weekend working. A full driving licence is essential.

Training and benefits

We’ll bring out the best in you with comprehensive training. Before you start the job, you’ll learn about everything from first-aid, health and safety, and risk awareness to how to deal with challenging behaviour. You’ll also acquire a wide range of transferable skills, including coaching and mentoring.

If you’re looking for career progression, there are opportunities to move into CP management and senior management roles. The first-hand experience you’ll gain working with people on probation is an excellent foundation if you’re interested in working as a probation services officer or training to be a qualified probation officer. Plus, you’ll have access to a wide range of other roles in the Probation Service, such as working in courts or with victims of crime.

We’ll reward your commitment with secure and stable employment and benefits including a range of flexible working patterns, an attractive occupational pension (Local Government Pension Scheme), paid sick leave and 25 days paid holiday plus Bank Holidays.

A career in community payback gives you the power to make a positive impact on offenders’ lives as well as your community.