Supporting People on Probation Navigator : Part Time
Location: Hastings
Salary: A GBP 19,200
Vacancy Type: Permanent
Advertising End Date: 23 Mar 2026
About The Role
Make a real impact. Change futures. Strengthen communities.
Are you passionate about rehabilitation, wellbeing, and second chances? We’re looking for a Part Time (28 Hours) proactive, client-focused professional to deliver Personal Wellbeing Services to adult men and young men within the Criminal Justice system.
In this dynamic role, you’ll work alongside practitioners and subcontractors to provide tailored support across:
* Family and Significant Others
* Lifestyle and Associates
* Emotional Wellbeing
* Social Inclusion
This is more than a support role, it’s about guiding individuals from custody to community, building resilience, and reducing reoffending through structured, meaningful intervention.
What You’ll Be Doing
You’ll manage a caseload and deliver impactful, client-centered support through:
* Comprehensive risk, initial and ongoing assessments
* Structured 1:1 sessions and group programmes
* Care planning and regular reviews
* Transitional support from prison to community
* Integrated working with probation, health and wellbeing partners
You’ll play a key role in measuring outcomes, meeting KPIs, and contributing to service targets, ensuring quality, compliance and meaningful results.
What We’re Looking For
* Confident managing a diverse caseload
* Skilled in delivering structured interventions and group facilitation
* Organised, proactive and solution-focused
* Comfortable working across multi-agency environments
* Committed to safeguarding, confidentiality and ethical practice
Flexibility is essential, this may include occasional evenings/weekends and travel within your cluster to maintain continuity of care.
Join a multidisciplinary, purpose-driven team where your work has visible, measurable impact. You’ll play a vital role in transforming lives, strengthening communities, and supporting individuals to build safer, healthier futures. This is a role that blends frontline support with meaningful partnership working, giving you the opportunity to see real change happen, every single day.
If you’re motivated, resilient, and ready to help people build better futures, we’d love to hear from you.
All probation-based roles are subject to enhanced DBS checks and HMPPS security vetting. These checks can take up to 6-16 weeks to complete. Any offer of employment will be conditional upon the successful completion of both checks. Please note if you have lived overseas within the last 5 years then checks may take longer.
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.
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 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 s
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