Impress employers and recruiters.
Choose from hundreds of resume examples.

Target Resume Now

Tailor your resume to this 23062 - PEP: Peer Mentor Coordinator - London Probation Service role.

Rezi rewrites your resume against Ministry of Justice UK's job description. Free.

Resume score gauge reading 58 out of 100

Don't guess if your resume is good enough.

See how it scores against the 23062 - PEP: Peer Mentor Coordinator - London Probation Service posting at Ministry of Justice UK — free, in seconds.

About the Role

The Peer Mentor Coordinator leads the delivery of a local Peer Mentoring service, supporting the Engaging People on Probation (EPOP) agenda. You will recruit, train, and support volunteer Peer Mentors, coordinating opportunities for them to contribute across probation settings. The role involves maintaining effective systems for service delivery, ensuring strong safeguarding and risk-management practice, and embedding lived experience into service improvement through activities such as focus groups and lived experience panels. Working flexibly across sites, you’ll also contribute to the development of peer-led practice at a regional and national level.

Responsibilities

Recruit, train, and support volunteer Peer Mentors.
Coordinate opportunities for Peer Mentors to contribute across probation settings.
Maintain effective systems for service delivery.
Ensure strong safeguarding and risk-management practice.
Embed lived experience into service improvement through activities such as focus groups and lived experience panels.
Contribute to the development of peer-led practice at a regional and national level.

Requirements

Lived experience of the criminal justice system is desirable.
Understanding of probation practice is desirable.
All candidates are subject to security and identity checks prior to taking up post.
Must meet minimum selection criteria for guaranteed interview schemes (Disability Confident, Veterans).

Skills

Coordination
Training
Support
Risk Management
Safeguarding
Service Improvement
Communication
Influencing

Location

London

Work Type

Hybrid Working
Full Time
Fixed Term
Detached Duty
Loan

Experience Level

Up to 2 year fixed-term appointment for eligible PEP applicants

Salary/Compensations

£28,064 - £33,549
London allowance payment

Benefits

Annual leave is 25 days on appointment and will increase to 30 days after five years’ service, plus public holidays.
Pension covered by the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
Extensive range of training and development opportunities.
Opportunity to join employee-run networks.
Family Friendly policies (reduced hours, job share).
Access to flexible benefits (retail vouchers, discounts).
Childcare support schemes (Tax Free Childcare).
Paid paternity, adoption and maternity leave.
Free annual sight tests for computer screen users.

About the Company

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) offers Hybrid Working arrangements where business need allows.
The MoJ is committed to staff development.
The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles.
As a Disability Confident employer, MoJ are committed to providing everyone with the opportunity to demonstrate their skills, talent and abilities.
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found.
The "Making the Civil Service a Great Place to work for veterans" initiative includes a guaranteed interview scheme.
Civil Service departments are expected to explore redeployment opportunities before making an individual redundant.
This job is broadly open to UK nationals, nationals of the Republic of Ireland, Commonwealth citizens with the right to work in the UK, EU/EEA/Swiss nationals with settled/pre-settled status, and certain Turkish nationals.

Equal Opportunity

As a Disability Confident employer, MoJ are committed to providing everyone with the opportunity to demonstrate their skills, talent and abilities, by making adjustments throughout all elements of the recruitment process and in the workplace.
The "Making the Civil Service a Great Place to work for veterans" initiative includes a guaranteed interview scheme to those who meet the minimum criteria.
The MoJ is committed, as part of the Redeployment Interview Scheme, to providing opportunities to those who are 'at risk of redundancy'.