Family Support Worker
Salary: FTE £23,400 per annum (£9,984 per annum pro rata actual earnings)
Hours: 16 hours per week (Including weekend shifts)
Location: HMP Ranby
Contract Type: Permanent
As Family Support Worker (Visits Centre Assistant), you will provide support to families visiting loved ones in the Visitor Centre. Visitor centre services include play and children’s services and a catering service. You will work as one of the PACT Family team, primarily based in the prison's visitor centre and visits hall, providing support, advice, and guidance to families visiting prisoners, facilitating prison visits, family days, and supporting the play service.
About You:
To be successful in this role, you will have experience and understanding of working with families in a challenging environment, ideally involving offenders and/or their families. You will also have excellent organisational skills and the ability to manage a demanding workload. You will have the ability to contribute to planning and development of Pact’s family work and possess knowledge of safeguarding/child protection practice. Furthermore, you will have excellent interpersonal communication skills and the ability to build partnerships with a range of agencies.
What Pact Offers:
Pact offers a wide range of employee benefits including free confidential advice and counselling service, cycle to work scheme, life assurance, eye care vouchers, generous annual leave, plus more. You will have the opportunity to attend internal training events to further develop yourself as an effective support worker and undergo a thorough induction process while being supported by a friendly and enthusiastic team.
How to Apply:
If you feel you meet the requirements of this post, please complete an application form by clicking the 'apply now' button.
Other Information:
Pact is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes all applications, including those with a criminal conviction (appointment to post is subject to a risk assessment). This post is subject to a 6-month probationary period, verification of identity and proven right to work in the UK, satisfactory references from previous employers covering a 3-year period, declaration of any unspent criminal convictions (and where appropriate a satisfactory risk assessment), Prison Vetting, and an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. Please note that being bankrupt or having County Court Judgements may affect your ability to be successfully vetted to work in a prison.
About Us:
Pact (the Prison Advice & Care Trust) is a pioneering national charity that provides caring and life-changing services to men and women in prison, to people with convictions on release and in the community, and to their children and families. Pact’s vision is of a society in which justice is understood as a process of restoration and healing, in which prisons are used sparingly and as places of learning and rehabilitation, and in which the innate dignity and worth of every human being is valued. We work for the common good of Society, taking a public health-based approach. We work at the intersection of criminal justice, child and family welfare, mental health, wellbeing provision, and health & social care.
Our volunteers and staff can be found in courts, prisons, probation services, and in communities across England & Wales. We are a diverse, inclusive, modern, and collaborative charity. We build effective partnerships and sustainable solutions based on our well-established understanding of the systems in which we work, and on our historic values and ethos developed through our 120+ years of service delivery.
You may also have experience in the following: Family Support Officer, Visitor Centre Coordinator, Family Liaison Worker, Offender Support Assistant, Prison Support Worker, Safeguarding Specialist, Child Protection Officer, Social Care Worker, Play and Activities Coordinator, etc.
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