Criminal Justice Support Worker - North Devon

locations: Exeter - Riverside Court

time type: Full time

posted on: Posted Today

job requisition id: JR012921

Criminal Justice Support Worker

Location: Riverside Court, BarnstapleWorking Hours: 37Contract Type: Fixed-termSalary: £25,877 - £30,868

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About the Role
Join the Together Drug and Alcohol Service for Devon and become part of our supportive Criminal Justice Team. Based primarily in Barnstaple, you'll occasionally work across our Exeter and Newton Abbot hubs, with travel expenses reimbursed when required.

This is a varied and rewarding role where you'll support service users through welfare calls, assessments, record keeping, and partnership working, while helping the team respond to changing service needs.

Whether you're looking to build your experience in Criminal Justice or take the next step in your career, this role offers valuable development opportunities, hands-on experience, and potential pathways for progression.

If you're adaptable, motivated, and passionate about making a positive difference, we'd love to hear from you. Apply today.

As a Criminal Justice Support Worker, you will be responsible for:

Supporting a caseload of our service users, including delivering a range of psychosocial interventions.
Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team to undertake ongoing assessments, risk assessments, and appropriate referrals within the community
Facilitating group sessions with a range of individuals of varying backgrounds including SMART Recovery.
Working with partnership agencies to ensure continuity of care and support.
Providing duty cover for individuals accessing our services.

About you
We’re looking for an individual with a real passion for working in a recovery-focused environment. You’ll hold some transferable skills, ideally from working in a similar environment or sector.
You’ll also have:

A knowledge and understanding of substance misuse and recovery
Experience of managing, planning, and prioritising your own workload, delivering work of a high standard
An understanding of safeguarding
An understanding of group working, group dynamics and group facilitation
Excellent communication, organisation and time management skills

However, if you don't have direct experience, we have an intensive training skills academy as our induction that will help equip you with lots of the need-to-know information. The ability to work well in a team environment alongside a range of people and organisations

A "Day in the life" from a current Criminal Justice Support Worker:
"I am currently employed as a part time Criminal Justice Support Worker. What drew me to this role, was the part time hours which suited my current situation and having recently spent 23 years working for Essex Probation Service, the role appealed to me.

As I progressed within the role, I was able to embrace the diversity of the role, the colourful characters I met, listening to their current situation and together work on a plan to hopefully help them to address alcohol or substance use. The role also provided me the opportunity to cover different parts of the County, apart from my base in Exeter, covering for staff shortages in Newton Abbott, Tavistock and Barnstaple.

Throughout my short time I have been supported from both management and staff, including some thorough training opportunities to help me to make sense of the new role, I have been offered.

The main appeal for me was not only working with some fantastic people but also the variety of the role."

What We Offer

We value the people who make a difference every day. Alongside meaningful work, you’ll enjoy a comprehensive benefits package:

27 days’ annual leave, rising to 32 after 1 year (plus bank holidays)
Pension scheme with 4.5% employer contribution, matched up to 6.5%
Life assurance (3× annual salary)
Enhanced sick pay and family-friendly pay
Birthday leave and the option to buy up to 5 extra days’ annual leave
Professional fee reimbursement for relevant qualificati...

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