The role of a Community Service Supervisor in PBNI can differ widely from one day to the next. You will be supervising people subject to community service, where the person under supervision has been ordered to complete a specified number of hours unpaid work within the community.
Community service work includes a wide variety of work including working with a group of people on community service, a ‘squad’ or on an individual placement. Activities undertaken on community service include graffiti removal, cleaning up and decorating church or community centres or carrying out other environmental work to benefit the local community. Some service users carry out work in charity shops and other groups.
In this role you will supervise a squad (group of people completing community service), making sure the work is completed satisfactorily, enforcing attendance for those under a community service sentence, and ensuring that the correct hours are recorded and completed. You will also liaise with your Probation Officer and Probation Service Officer colleagues about the service users they are responsible for who are completing community service and keep them up to date with service user’s progress.
It will also be part of your role to help identify and develop new placements in areas that you believe could benefit from community service work.
As a Community Service Supervisor, you have the opportunity to be a positive role model, to help people change their lives, and give back to local communities.