Community Coach

The role

As a member of the Community Team, you will provide vital support to people who have completed our course in prison and are now in the community working to find the stability they need to realise their potential, achieve their goals and rebuild their lives after prison.

This is an exciting time to join our Community Team as we look to broaden and deepen the support we offer participants as they leave prison. You will help shape our offer to participants; drawing on your experiences and creativity and working with our other Community Coaches to trial new approaches.

Partnership working plays an important part of the role, and you’ll get to connect with employers, partners and statutory organisations to support participants as they build a life after prison.

This role would be ideal for someone with a good understanding of the challenges faced by those caught up in the criminal justice system, gained through personal experience, paid work or volunteering. This role does not require the successful candidate to work in prison or clear prison security to hold keys. However, if you are interested in working in prison, please indicate this in your cover letter.

How to apply

To apply for this role, please send a CV and cover letter (up to two pages) to recruitment@standout.org.uk by the application deadline below.

Your covering letter should include why you are interested in the role of Community Coach at Standout, and what you would bring to the role. Please use the job description and person specification information in this application pack to detail your suitability. CVs without a supporting cover letter will not be considered.

StandOut is committed to diversity in all that it does and aims to build a team representative of London, celebrating people’s differences. We welcome applications from the widest possible talent pool, and we appoint on ability and merit irrespective of race, religion, age, disability (including hidden disabilities), marital/civil partnership status, sex, gender identity, or sexual orientation. We particularly welcome applications from candidates with lived experience of the criminal justice system, personal or by association. In order to help ensure that our policy is working well please complete an Equality and Diversity Monitoring Form and submit with your application.

If this opportunity sounds exciting to you but your experience, skills or qualifications do not match every requirement, we still encourage you to apply! Should you have any questions about the role, requirements or application process please do not hesitate to get in touch with our Programme Director, Jo Fellows at recruitment@standout.org.uk.

Closing date: 9am, Monday 8th July

Interviews: Interviews will be held on Wednesday 17th and Thursday 18th July. If you cannot attend on these dates, please tell us in your cover letter, and we can discuss an alternative.