OB Programmes Facilitator-HMP Ashfield

Programme Facilitator

Part Time, Permanent 

Location: HMP Ashfield, Bristol

 

Discover an exciting opportunity to enrich your career as a Programme Facilitator at HMP Ashfield in Bristol. HMP Ashfield is a category B male prison with an operational capacity is for 412 prisoners. This is a role that offers plenty of variety and contributes enormously to the important work of stabilising and reintegrating those prisoners safely and successfully back into society. As a Programme Facilitator you will deliver a range of group-based interventions which include assessment, group and individual treatment and provides support in the psychology department/interventions function in the delivery of services.

 

 

The job holder will be required to carry out the following responsibilities, activities and duties:

 

• Deliver interventions in a group or individual basis, arranging the session and resources required in accordance with the delivery manual and in consultation with the Treatment Manager/ Supervisor
• 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
• Demonstrate a warm and empathic treatment style
• An ability to take on feedback and take responsibility  for their own development
• 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
• Work collaboratively with group members to set objectives for each prisoner following the conclusion of the programme
• Contributes towards sentence planning and offender management processes
• As directed by relevant treatment manager comply with audit requirement
• Undertakes required supervision with the relevant treatment manager for the programme to ensure they maintain the quality standards required for this work