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In Custody Careers Advisor (CIAG)
Salary: From £24,806 Pro Rata (£12,403 for 18.5 hours per week)
Location: HMP Humber
Contract: Permanent part time
We’re looking for a dedicated Careers Information Advice and Guidance Advisor to join our team - a crucial role in supporting individuals inside a custodial setting by providing tailored career advice, guidance, and support. This role aims to empower prisoners to identify their career aspirations, develop their skills, and leverage their strengths to prepare for successful reintegration into society upon release.
About The Role
You will provide tailored careers advice and guidance to prisoners through both one-to-one sessions and group workshops. You will create and manage personalised learning plans to help prisoners identify and work toward their goals during custody and in preparation for release. Your role will support rehabilitation by equipping individuals with the skills, qualifications, and opportunities needed to secure employment or further training upon release.
You will organize opportunities for prisoners to connect with employers and participate in employment related activities. Through your support, prisoners will be encouraged to take meaningful steps toward long-term career development and positive reintegration into the community.
This is a demanding yet deeply rewarding role. You'll be working in a challenging environment with individuals who have complex needs and may be hesitant to engage. However, when you help someone break the cycle and take real steps toward transforming their life, the impact is truly life-changing—for them and for you.
What You’ll Be Doing
* Facilitate engaging sessions to groups of participants around topics such as employability skills, career planning, and effective disclosure.
* Build trutful relationships with participants and create a safe space for personal growth.
* Manage stakeholders. Engage with prison education departments, training providers, employers and probation services to create employment pathways.
* Manage caseload. Conduct one-to-one assessments to identify prisoners’ skills, career aspirations, and training needs, develop a Prisoner Learning Plan (PLP) and achieve sustained employment, training, education and completion of prison employment outcomes.
* Ensure quality. Work toward agreed KPIs, targets, and quality assurance standards.
What We Are Looking For
* Career Guidance Experience and/or IAG Qualification; experience advising on career choices, apprenticeships or training journeys.
* Communication Skills; ability to engage, motivate, persuade, and listen; build strong connections.
* Administration; skilled in keeping meticulous records of interactions to measure client progress and ensure effective interventions.
What We Offer
* 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays, with the option to trade for additional leave.
* EAP Support programme available 24/7, including 6 free counselling sessions.
* Private medical insurance and life assurance.
* Up to 2 days of Community Giving (volunteering) each year to support a cause that matters to you.
* Eyecare vouchers.
* Exclusive discounts via Perks at Work.
* Cycle to Work scheme and travel season ticket loan.
* Long service awards to celebrate your commitment.
* Salary Finance offering financial education and advice.
* Opportunity to purchase extra benefits such as critical illness cover and dental insurance.
We welcome applications from those with lived experience. This role requires an enhanced Level 1 DBS check. While background checks are underway, you can shadow colleagues, ask questions, and learn the ropes.
Our Justice division is dedicated to transforming lives and creating safer communities. Our mission is to reduce reoffending, build stronger communities, and help people realise their potential.
About Ingeus
We pride ourselves on fostering an inclusive culture where everyone is treated with dignity, valued for their contributions, and encouraged to grow. We are committed to supporting neurodiverse candidates and offer a clear and accessible application, screening, and interview process.
Contact us via email for further details.
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