Prevention Lead (Criminal Justice)

Job Description

Job Title: Prevention Lead (Criminal Justice)

If the following job requirements and experience match your skills, please ensure you apply promptly.

Location: Prison and Community based across East and Southeast England

Job Type: Part-Time – 3 days per week

Report to: Head of Criminal Justice

Salary: £35,000 pa (Pro Rata)

About Us:

At Breakeven we support anyone affected by gambling related harm, whether a gambler, partner, family member, friend or work colleague. The treatment we provide is free, flexible and confidential and can be delivered via face to face, telephone or online sessions. We also provide a variety of prevention services, delivering education and early intervention programmes to help reduce instances of gambling harm across the region.

Job Purpose:

Breakeven is committed to providing comprehensive support to individuals engaged with the criminal justice system in any capacity across the East and Southeast of England. This includes individuals serving prison sentences, working through probation, police services and prison and probation staff. We recognise the critical importance of addressing gambling harms to facilitate successful reintegration into society and reduce instances of reoffending. The Criminal Justice Prevention lead will be responsible for establishing and maintaining relationships within criminal justice establishments across the region, to build capacity to prevent gambling harm through education, awareness and early intervention. The Successful candidate will build effective relationships with prisoners, prison staff and partner agencies, encouraging referrals and ensuring individuals receive appropriate support throughout their journey.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

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• Travel regularly between establishments as required

Deliver structured support programmes and group interventions within prison establishments

Conduct comprehensive assessments of prisoners to identify gambling related issues

Facilitate one-to-one support sessions where appropriate

Provide education and resources about gambling harms, its effects, and recovery processes

Map the landscape across the region, to identify new opportunities, key organisations and individuals of interest • Stay current with best practices and developments in gambling treatment and prison rehabilitation ethos • Maintain confidentiality and adhere to ethical standards and regulations

Promote Breakeven’s gambling harm treatment and prevention work

Build and maintain relationships with, and support, organisational leaders and relevant departments to create new processes for screening for gambling harm in the individuals they work with, as well as signposting or referring into the support services, to reduce gambling harm where it exists

Accurately report activity and keep organised records of data and communication

Collate feedback from organisations, using debriefs, evaluation forms and follow-ups

Collaborate with Prevention team and wider Breakeven staff to encourage a ‘oneteam’ approach to Breakeven’s Strategy.

Provide regular scheduled updates to Head of Criminal Justice and Senior Leadership Team

Person Specification

All requirements are essential, unless identified as desirable (D)

Qualifications/ Knowledge

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• Understanding of addiction, recovery processes and co-occurring disorders

Ability to handle sensitive information with discretion and awareness of safeguarding procedures

Ability to work collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team

Experience

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• Experience working with vulnerable adults, offenders or within criminal justice, health or social care settings

Experience delivering group programmes, structured interventions, workshops or other educational programmes

Experience building relationships with service users and partner agencies, and stakeholder management in the non-profit / charity / public sector, with a record of securing buy-in

Delivering presentations to varied audiences and facilitating training products digitally and in person

Persuading and supporting external organisations to change their processes in line with best practice

Skills

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• Ability to engage reluctant or difficult to reach individuals

Excellent stakeholder engagement with the ability to identify, establish and maintain productive relationships

Excellent presentation, interpersonal and communication skills, supported by strong use of IT – confident using Microsoft Office and CRM tools

Ability to maintain accurate stakeholder records, feeding into shared stakeholder maps

Circumstances

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• Able to travel regularly to multiple sites across region

Enhance DBS clearance (or willingness to obtain)

Ability to satisfy prison security clearance requirements

Full UK Driving Licence and access to vehicle for work purposes

Desirable

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• (D) Experience working with prison establishments, probation or community rehabilitation services

(D) Qualification in Health & Social Care, Criminal Justice, Psychology, Counselling, Youth Work or a related subject

(D) Knowledge of motivational interviewing

(D) Experience working with gambling harms, substance misuse or other addictions, mental health or offending programmes

To be noted: This job description will be reviewed regularly. Any changes will be discussed with the post holder. xwzovoh This is not an exhaustive list of duties and responsibilities the post holder may be required to undertake other duties which fall within the grade of the job, in discussion with your line manager.