Supporting People on Probation Navigator

Location: Essex

Salary: £14,400 per annum

Vacancy Type: Permanent, Part Time

Closing Date: 12^th December 2025

As a Supporting People on Probation Navigator, you’ll join our Essex team and walk alongside individuals as they rebuild their lives, strengthen their relationships, and move towards a crime-free future. You’ll help People on Probation complete their supervision successfully, overcome social and emotional barriers, and reconnect with their families, communities and wider support networks.

A typical day could include facilitating a group music session, checking in on a community project, meeting someone ahead of their release from prison, supporting someone in family crisis, or even ending the day with the winning shot in the afternoon football session. It’s varied, hands-on work where every contact matters.

What you’ll be doing

• Supporting adults to understand and improve their relationships, wellbeing, lifestyle and social circumstances
• Delivering 1:1 and group interventions designed to reduce reoffending
• Working closely with Probation Practitioners to agree Action Plans linked to sentence requirements
• Keeping clear, accurate records and maintaining high safeguarding standards
• Attending probation offices and community spaces across Southend, Chelmsford, Layndon, Colchester and Harlow

This is a primarily in-person role, with occasional virtual delivery to meet service user needs. Some evening work is required, and a full UK driving licence is desirable due to regular travel between sites.

Who we’re looking for

You might come from the justice sector, psychology, counselling, education, social care, health, social prescribing, or you might bring valuable lived or transferable experience from another background. What matters most is that you:

• Believe people can change and live fulfilling lives
• Are skilled at building rapport and working collaboratively
• Communicate well and keep accurate records
• Work confidently both independently and within a team
• Bring creativity, flexibility and a commitment to doing meaningful work

If you’re motivated, compassionate and passionate about helping people move forward, we’d love to hear from you.

About Us

We are The Forward Trust, the social enterprise with charitable status that empowers people to break the often interlinked cycles of crime and addiction to move forward with their lives. For more than 25 years we have been working with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past. We believe that anyone is capable of lasting change. Our services have supported thousands of people to make positive changes and build productive lives with a job, family, friends and a sense of community.

We are committed to our cause and the work we carry out as a charity. Equally the wellbeing and the employees who work for us are also important. Joining us an employee, we will offer you the following benefits:

• Flexible working
• Training and development opportunities
• Simply Health Cashback Scheme (optional)
• Season Ticket Loan Scheme 
• Cycle to work scheme
• Crisis Loan Scheme
• Electric Car Scheme
• 3 x Wellbeing Days (pro rata'd for part time employees)
• Access to Blue Light Card
• 25 days (rising to 30 with length of service) Annual Leave plus Bank Holidays 
• Contributory Pension Scheme – Employer matched contributions of up to 6% in the first two years’ service and up to 9% thereafter 
• Death in Service Payment (2x annual salary) 
• Critical Illness Insurance (subject to qualifying criteria)

Diversity at Forward Trust

The Forward Trust commits to providing opportunities to everyone. We want to ensure we have a diverse team with a range of lived and professional experiences. This includes those with ‘Lived Experience’ of addiction, offending, or homelessness.

When we recruit, we welcome applications from everyone. This is inclusive of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion and/or belief, marriage and civil partnerships, pregnancy and maternity and socio-economic background. Where operationally possible, we will consider flexible working requests and make reasonable adjustments for all roles.

Employee Screening and Eligibility to Work

We recognise the importance of safeguarding, dependent on role you may be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service Check, details of which will be shared with you at interview.

If successful in your application, you will be required to provide eligibility to work evidence in line with the ‘Eligibility to Work in the UK’ requirements.

To Apply

If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for the Forward Trust, please proceed through the following link to be redirected to their website to complete your application.

https://careers.forwardtrust.org.uk/vacancies/455/supporting-people-on-probation-navigator.html

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