Critical Pathways Checkpoint Navigator

Salary: Scale 5 £30,333 - £32,613

Location: Sherburn Police Station ( Force Wide)

Hours/Contract: Full-Time, 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Closing Date: 5pm Wednesday 10th June 2026

The Role

The Navigator works with offenders on the Checkpoint programme which is a deferred prosecution, identifying and helping them to address their criminogenic needs, with a view to diverting them away from offending and the Criminal Justice System. 

What You’ll Do

1. To work with offenders referred to the Checkpoint programme after arrest, providing a personalised assessment of their criminogenic needs across the Critical pathways, conducting a personal, venue and activity risk assessments as required, as part of overall health and safety requirements
2. To prepare, co-ordinate & deliver support in accordance with a contract agreed with each offender, based upon the assessment of needs. Actively engage with offenders, setting boundaries of the contract covering mutual expectations, effective lifestyle goal setting and bespoke action planning.
3. Liaise with partners relevant to each support plan to facilitate appointments and support the delivery of effective referral and recruitment pathways into other agency services.
4. Manage a caseload of clients and maintain regular supportive contact with each person. Provide brief interventions that encourage engagement, strengthen motivation and enhance an individual’s behaviour change journey. Navigate them into engagement with services; support, recovery, activity planning, or whatever their needs require. Facilitate attendance at appointments, activities etc. providing transport and support, following the escalation policy where a subject fails to engage. Conduct home visits where appropriate and where further needs identified, make appropriate referrals and or take the subject to the relevant agency.
5. To guide and support individuals in gradually taking ownership of their own plan, recognising key areas for change, monitoring progress and adjusting goals accordingly.
6. Conduct home visits where appropriate and where further needs identified, make appropriate referrals and or take the subject to the relevant agency.
7. Promote Restorative Approaches with offenders and partners, assisting in arrangements for meetings as required
8. To undertake any training and development deemed appropriate.

Applicants must possess a full, current driving licence. There is an expectation that the post holder will travel throughout the force area of County Durham and Darlington depending on the pathway needs of the offenders. Successful applicants will need to have access to their own car for business use.

What You’ll Bring

• City & Guilds Level III/ A Levels/or BTEC National in a relevant subject or an approved NVQ level 3 equivalent.
• At least two years’ experience working in the community or voluntary sector/ health/social care or criminal justice system or wider welfare environment.

If you hold a higher qualification than those required above or minimum 5 years relevant experience, please evidence this on your application and it will be reviewed by our recruitment team.

For further information, please view the Job Description and Person Specification attached. 

How to apply
 
If you’d like to apply, please forward a copy of the attached Application form, by the closing date.

External Applicants - please use the external application form

Internal applicants - please use the Internal Application form
 
Please also complete and return the equal opportunity form and return this with your Application form.

We are committed to equal opportunities, we therefore encourage you to complete and return the equality monitoring form. This form is optional, and your responses will be kept confidential and for statistical purposes only.

The above 2 (relevant application + equal opportunity) forms should be returned by email to our Recruitment department – [email protected]
 
Candidates must have indefinite leave to work and live in the UK and be free from any restriction. Any successful candidate will be asked to provide evidence of this.
 
Candidates will be contacted via email in relation to the recruitment process and are advised to also check junk and spam folders for email updates.

Further information

Any offer of employment will be subject to appropriate vetting checks which will be maintained/updated throughout the period of service. 

Applicants must have been a UK resident for at least three years prior to the date of application.

If applicants have not been a resident in the UK for at least three years and can provide a VERIFIABLE certificate from the police of any country where they have taken temporary residence. The certificate must indicate that they have not been convicted of any offence whilst in that country or involved in any investigation by a Law Enforcement Agency.

Any tattoos deemed to be obscene, or advocates sexual, racial, ethnic, or religious discrimination, by written word or design is prohibited and the presence of such a tattoo would preclude an applicant from passing the recruitment process for employment with the Constabulary.

For any queries, please contact [email protected]

Please return the relevant application form and the equal opportunity form to [email protected]