Community Payback Supervisor

Job Description

Based at County Buildings, Market Street, Forfar.

This job is workstyle 1 - Fixed.

In this workstyle most of your time is spent undertaking the direct delivery of front-line services work. Depending on your role there may be a limited requirement to access a specific council location during the course of the working week if you are not delivering your service at a council location.

As a Community Payback Supervisor with Angus Council, you will support people who have been convicted of offences and given an Unpaid Work Requirement as part of their Community Payback Order or a Fiscal Work Order to complete their Unpaid Work hours for the benefit of the local community.

Using your life experience, prosocial modelling, practical skills, empathy, and humour, you will work with small groups of up to five people, supporting them to complete tasks and projects in their communities while encouraging and enabling them to develop their practical skills. Many of the people you work with may not have had positive role models in their lives, and you could be the first person to support them and encourage them to take steps to change their lives.

You will also work with some people who may present with challenging attitudes and behaviour. You will draw upon your life experiences and use your communication skills to be empathetic but firm while working with them, supporting them to complete their tasks.

Please note interviews will be held Wednesday, 14 August 2024.

Requirements

You must have the ability to become a member of the PVG Scheme.

Please refer to job outline and person specification for further details and requirements for this job.

About Angus Council

In addition, please refer to the "applicant guidance" document when completing your application form and to the "welcome to Angus" document and our website https://www.angus.gov.uk/jobs_and_training/working_for_angus_council for more information about working for Angus Council.

The Individual

We offer a guaranteed job interview to the following people who meet the essential criteria on application for a job:

Those with disabilities, recognised caring responsibilities and care experienced young people. This also applies to our own employees with caring responsibilities, young people on apprenticeships and placements who meet the essential criteria for the job.