Reconnect Peer Worker

Want to use your lived experience to help others? Make a real difference as a Reconnect Peer Support Worker!

We're looking for a peer champion for the Reconnect Service within our Liaison and Diversion team. Using your own experience as an ex-offender or prison leaver to guide others, we want you to motivate and engage our clients to navigate them through their release from the criminal justice system and onto a stable pathway.

If you have:

• Direct lived experience of criminal justice and / or prison system as an ex-offender or as a prison leaver



• Good interpersonal skills including providing sound advice and support.


• Strong emotional resilience towards challenging behaviours.


• A full UK drivers license and access to a car for work.
  
  You'll make a difference to people's lives from the moment you start. You will benefit from:


• Commitment to flexible working


• Hybrid working (where applicable)


• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, rising to 30 days


• Many learning and career development opportunities, with paid and tailored training


• Free Employee Assistance Programme 24/7 including access to counselling and GP services


• Employer contributory pension scheme


• Good maternity, paternity, and adoption benefits


• Care workers discounts


• Access to our Employee Networks including People of Colour, LGBT+, Mental Health and Accessibility Network etc.


• Health and wellbeing opportunities


• Cycle to Work Scheme


• Access to Corporate Health Plan


We aim for our workforce to reflect the diverse and exciting region we serve and are also proudly and actively anti-racist as such you are expected to drive the agenda forward.

As an organisation we believe people can only be at their best and thrive when they can be their authentic self!