Criminal Justice Practitioner

Salary: £26,000-£29,000 (depending on experience)

Hours: Full Time

Location: South Gloucestershire

Contract Type: Permanent

This role focuses on delivering person-centred support by welcoming individuals, providing guidance, and helping them access appropriate services. The post holder will carry out assessments and develop tailored support plans that build on each individual’s strengths, needs, and aspirations, supporting them to achieve positive and sustainable change. They will monitor progress, maintain accurate and confidential records, and advocate for clients where necessary to ensure their needs are met.

About You

We welcome applicants who are passionate about social justice, mental health and strengthening local communities. We encourage applications from people with lived experience of the criminal justice system and/or mental health difficulties and from those living in local communities.

If you are flexible, resilient, and motivated to make a difference we would love to hear from you. Please see the job description and person specification to learn more.

Our Values

We are an award winning charity that challenges social exclusion by supporting people to achieve their potential and our values underpin this.

If you share DHI’s values of flexibility, stimulation, self- direction and zest for life, then we encourage you to apply.

We look forward to exploring these with you during the interview process should you be successful at the shortlisting stage.

What We Offer

We offer on the job support and mentoring within the team for this role, as well as training with regard to drug and alcohol related topics that are relevant to the post.

As an employee of DHI, you will have also access to our Employee Assistance Programme, our Cycle Scheme, 26 days annual leave/ 31 days (service related), company pension scheme and Charity Worker Discounts.

How to apply

To apply for this role please complete the application form below by 8 May 2026.

All applicants are required to submit a statement that is part of the application form that should address the following questions in no more than 500 words.

1. State how you meet the requirements for the role

2. What do our core values mean to you in relation to this role

We strongly encourage you to complete our Equality & Diversity monitoring form to help us achieve a diverse workforce. The form does not form part of the selection process. Please also tell us where you saw the post advertised.

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