Please note: This position is for a women's supervisor. The main focus of the job is to work with female only groups but there may be a requirement to work with male groups as well. Hours must include a weekend day. You will be required to cover Central Lancashire and Pennine/East Lancashire area.
Candidates must hold a full UK Manual Driving Licence when applying for this role; this is a mandatory technical requirement in order to carry out this role. We cannot accept candidates who hold an automatic driving licence only.
A career in community payback gives you the power to make a positive impact on the lives of people on probation as well as your community. People come from all walks of life to form one team in the Probation Service. It is all about supporting people on probation on their journey and making your community a better place. Whether that involves building benches or cleaning the streets, you’re there because you genuinely want to help.
This is an operational role directly supervising work groups of offenders serving a community sentence. This may include driving service vehicles to transport people or equipment. The post holder will be responsible for all work-site supervision tasks and will work with service users to ensure that all tasks are carried out to the best of their ability. This will also include working alongside people to demonstrate good practice as necessary.
For further information on the summary, responsibilities, activities, duties of the role and the Civil Service Success Profile Criteria which will be used in the assessment process, please refer to the full Job Description Attachment.
Right to work in the UK: you must have the right to work in the UK and Civil Service.
Skilled Worker visa changes from 22 July 2025: In accordance with current immigration rules, this role is not eligible for a new Skilled Worker visa. If you have held a Skilled Worker visa continuously, please raise this during your pre-employment checks and your eligibility will be assessed in accordance with immigration rules. If you have not held a Skilled Worker visa prior to 22 July 2025, you will need to consider your options for obtaining and/or maintaining your right to work in the UK in light of these changes. If your application is successful, you must ensure that you have and maintain the legal right to live and work in the Civil Service and in the United Kingdom.
The work is varied, challenging and meaningful and comes with job security, great benefits and career progression opportunities – not to mention the chance to make a real difference to people’s lives and our communities.
If you are successful in the recruitment process to join the Probation Service, your starting salary will be £26,475 (pro-rata). On a typical day, you’ll spend up to 7 hours supervising a group at a Community Payback unpaid work placement. Post holders may be required to undertake weekend working as part of their normal pattern of working.
Working pattern: The Community Payback supervisor role is accommodated to people on probation who work or have caring responsibilities. Community Payback projects run 7 days a week, therefore you will work frequent weekends and may be asked to cover some evenings. You will be paid a higher rate of 50 % for weekend days you work. In this role, the pace of our work means that rest breaks don’t always happen in the standard way. When this happens, we make sure your wellbeing is looked after. Your wellbeing really matters to us, so we want to be open about this from the outset.
If you enjoy a varied, active role where no two days are the same, this is a great environment to make a real difference while being fully supported. The Probation Service offers the opportunity for annual pay progression through a Competency Based Framework (CBF), which if eligible, will see your pay increase. CBF is designed to enable you to move up through the pay band range as your competence grows. New entrants are expected to join on the minimum of the pay band. Probation Service also increases their pay band ranges annually in line with Civil Service Pay guidance, which will also apply an increase to band pay ranges where applicable.
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