DELIVERING OUR COUNCIL MODEL IN PRISONS
We are currently recruiting for a full-time position in HMP Peterborough.
There is a crucial need for insights from people with lived experience of crime, addiction, and homelessness to inform system reform as this voice is often absent. Over the past 15 years, User Voice has made an unrivalled and significant footprint across the country engaging with the hardest to reach people, through elected and trained service users who can provide the information to fill this void.
Our work is led by people with lived experience of prison or probation and our research is designed and conducted by Peer Researchers. We use what we find to influence and implement change within the system to benefit everyone.
Job description
The successful candidate will be outcome-orientated and have experience contributing to successful projects as part of a team. They will have a good knowledge of the criminal justice sector and have their own lived experience.
This role involves a significant amount of remote working on the front-line role, delivering research, consultations, and other service user engagement activities.
Key responsibilities
· Engaging with people in prison and on probation
· Liaising with research partners, prisons, probation, and other stakeholders to access service users
· Contributing to project planning and project managing service user engagement activities
· Representing User Voice at regional and national forums, conferences, and events
· Recruiting, managing, motivating, and training service users and volunteers, including providing clear activities, support and signposting them to further opportunities and managing the risks involved.
· Ensuring that we are working with a diverse group, representative of the wider community
· Managing project participants expectations around employment with User Voice
· Aiding retention of service users by building and sustaining trusting professional relationships
· Group facilitation, including meetings, focus groups, workshops, and large events
Experience
⬥ Personal Lived experience of prison and probation
⬥ Turned your life around and want to help others do the same
⬥ A great work ethic and can manage their own time well
⬥ Excellent communication skills and a great listener
⬥ Highly motivated and passionate about change in the criminal justice system
⬥ Willing and able to bring out the best in others
This is an opportunity to be part of the change, you’ll get an experience like no other with the chance to fast forward your career
*All posts are subject to a 6-month probationary period and an Enhanced DBS check.
We are looking for people with lived experience, so be prepared to give a full and honest disclosure, we won’t hold it against you, in fact, the bigger your
journey, the more employable you are!
1. Download the job description
2. Complete the Application form
3. Complete the equality & diversity form
4. Send both forms and a copy of your CV to: recruitment@uservoice.org
We are a user-led organisation working with and for people with lived experience of the criminal justice system. We drive lived experience to the centre of the system.
Our work is led by people with lived experience of prison or probation and our research is designed and conducted by Peer Researchers. We use what we find to influence and implement change within the system.
We have employed over 300 people with lived experience, many of whom have gone on to work within the sector.
Ultimately, the Service User’s voice is at the heart of everything we do. We speak with those entrenched in the criminal justice system, giving them the opportunity to have their voices heard and amplify the voices of others. It’s not just about saying something, it’s about empowering people to do something themselves.
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