Senior Restorative Justice Practitioner Brent and HMP Wormwood Scrubs

Job Summary

We need a confident, determined Senior Practitioner with excellent people skills to join our team and deliver Belong’s flagship violence reduction programme in Brent borough, North London. The successful applicant will help to reduce disruption, violence and anti-social behaviour caused by gang activity in Brent, by offering restorative justice interventions, restorative practice support and mentoring to gang nominals and/or to those at risk of gang involvement. Participants will be residing in Brent, or on remand in HMP Wormwood Scrubs.

Belong aims that programme participants will:

1. Increase their commitment to live crime free futures
2. Improve their mental and emotional wellbeing
3. Increase engagement in positive activities and relationships

The Practitioner will support up to 20 participants at any time, ensuring that they can support and respond to individual’s needs adequately. Mentoring will be offered primarily to children and young people at risk of gang involvement, whereas restorative justice and/or restorative practice support will be offered primarily to gang nominals. The Practitioner will carefully balance support and accountability, as well as show neutrality and fairness when engaging with programme participants. Interventions will be culturally aware, with the practitioner employing a strength based, trauma informed, and boundaried approach.

Experience of front-line work within the criminal justice sector and a solid understanding of the drivers and realities of gang involvement are crucial for success in this position. Restorative justice facilitator training and experience will be a significant asset. In addition, the successful applicant will be organised, detail-oriented, and possess good IT and communication skills. ​They will demonstrate a high level of professionalism with the ability to work efficiently and autonomously, and to build relationships across a range of different teams.

Working flexibly within Brent Civic Centre and HMP Wormwood Scrubs, the practitioner will work with Brent Council, policing teams and HMP Wormwood Scrubs, to identify and offer interventions to eligible participants. Risk-assessing will be thorough and collaborative, using information from prison, probation, policing and council teams, and/or from other partner agencies. The successful candidate will provide regular and timely updates to referrers and case managers about participants progress and engagement, along with monthly programme reports to commissioners and relevant stakeholders.

Candidates for this role who have existing prison security vetting are particularly welcomed.

Place of work: HMP Wormwood Scrubs, Brent Civic Centre and other Brent Community Locations

Hours of work: Full-time, with a likely 50-50 split between Brent and HMP Wormwood Scrubs locations

Pay scale: £38,500 per annum, initially on a 6-month contract

Reports to: Service Manager

Prison Security and DBS Vetting Required: Enhanced

Annual leave and benefits:

• 28 days holiday per annum, plus Bank Holidays
• 3 days training leave per annum
• Fully funded monthly Clinical Supervision
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
• Regular, funded learning and development

How to apply: Email us at enquiries@belongmakingjusticehappen.co.uk with a CV and covering letter.

Please use your covering letter to outline how you meet the essential and desirable skills, knowledge and abilities listed in this advert. Submit your application as soon as possible, as we may shortlist and invite candidates to interviews on an ongoing basis until the closing date. We reserve the right to close this job advert earlier than the closing date if a successful candidate is appointed.

Closing date: 11.30pm on Sunday 1^st February 2026

Interviews will take place on an ongoing basis with final interviews to be held w/c 9^th February 2026 if a candidate has not been appointed before this.

Volunteer Mentor

Job Summary

Could you help someone change their life and avoid reoffending?

Belong’s vision is of hope, rehabilitation and recovery for victims and perpetrators of crime. We inspire change by providing long term, individualised responses to conflict and crime through restorative Justice, psychotherapy, mentoring, and training for criminal justice professionals.

We have exciting opportunities available for committed, compassionate people to volunteer as one-to-one mentors with us. Volunteers will work with young people and adults serving prison sentences at HMPYOI Feltham and HMPYOI Isis or serving community sentences in London. Successful applicants will have a qualification in criminology, psychology or a relevant area, and/or at least one year of experience working with children, young people or adults facing disadvantages. For genuine occupational requirement reasons successful applicants must be aged 21 years or over (exemption under the Equality Act 2010 Part 1 Schedule 9).

One-to-one mentors will build a professional working relationship with individuals as they serve their prison or community sentence and work towards a crime free future. Mentoring sessions will take place once per week or fortnight, for one to two hours per session. During the sessions volunteers will offer support to individuals to assist them to access education; training and employment; develop life skills; work through previous traumas and build positive relationships. Mentoring sessions will take place during weekdays or weekends. Volunteers need to be able to commit to the role for at least one year.

Interviews for the role will take place prior to the training dates and selection for the role confirmed after participation in the training.

Successful applicants will be invited to participate in an initial two-day training course at either HMPYOI Feltham or HMPYOI Isis from 9:30am-4pm on Saturday 14th March and Saturday 21st March. Please note: spaces on the training course are limited and we may close the recruitment before the closing date if spaces become full.

Prison security vetting and/or an enhanced DBS check are required for this role and all volunteers will be supported to undergo this. After vetting processes are complete, further training will be provided at the prison in which mentors are volunteering, with a range of dates available.

Full support and supervision will be provided to volunteers. We particularly encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds and from people with lived experience of the criminal justice system.

To apply, please send us your CV and covering letter to bee.n@belongmakingjusticehappen.co.uk as soon as possible, and by Sunday 22nd February. Interviews will be held remotely on Zoom or via phone call. Applications will be screened and applicants interviewed on a first come first served basis, and we have a limited number of spaces available on our March training course. We reserve the right to close this recruitment process before the closing date if we receive a high number of suitable applications beforehand.