PACT
Family Engagement Manager (Scale 3)
Job Location
London, United Kingdom
Job Description
Location: HMP Pentonville
Job Type: Full time
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: £31,500 per annum + £3,000 market supplement
As a Family Engagement Manager at HMP Pentonville, you will play a pivotal role in supporting the complex and varied needs of prisoners and their families. By developing robust referral pathways and managing a caseload of family support cases, you will ensure that each family receives personalised care and support. Additionally, you will advocate for the rights and needs of families, ensuring their voices are heard and respected within the prison system. This role requires a compassionate, dedicated individual committed to making a meaningful difference in the lives of those affected by imprisonment.
Key Responsibilities:
Provide comprehensive services ensuring that prisoners, their children, carers, and other relatives receive appropriate advice, guidance, learning opportunities, care, and support to maintain or enhance positive relationships.
Develop and implement effective referral pathways for families, prisoners, and other professionals to access family support services.
Establish connections with other relevant services to ensure seamless integration and support.
Manage a caseload of family support cases related to prisoners.
Conduct detailed assessments to inform and tailor support for the family unit, ensuring personalised and effective interventions.
Advocate for the rights and needs of families dealing with imprisonment.
Promote their human rights and ensure their voices are heard and considered at all levels of decision-making and service provision.
About You:
Demonstrable ability to coordinate a broad range of services.
Experience and understanding of working with families in a challenging multi-agency environment, preferably involving offenders and/or their families.
Excellent organisational skills and the capacity to manage a demanding workload.
Ability to contribute to the planning and development of Pacts family work.
Knowledge of safeguarding and child protection practices.
Exceptional interpersonal communication skills and the ability to build partnerships with various agencies.
This offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact on the lives of families and offenders by enhancing the support and services available to them. If you are passionate about family engagement and have the relevant skills and experience, we encourage you to apply.
What we offer:
Pact offers a range of benefits including a free advice, information and counselling service, contributory pension, corporate eye care scheme, cycle to work scheme and generous holiday entitlement. You will have the opportunity to attend training events to further develop yourself as a professional training and interventions worker. You will undergo a thorough induction process and be supported by a friendly and enthusiastic team.
How to apply:
If you feel that you meet the requirements of this exciting new role please complete an application form by clicking the `apply now` button.
* We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
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 a 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.
Pacts 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.
As an inclusive employer, we welcome requests for job adverts and descriptions in accessible formats (for e.g. larger text) for candidates with disabilities, including those with neurodiversity.
You may have experience in the following: Family Engagement Officer, Community Outreach Worker, Social Care Coordinator, Case Manager, Rehabilitation Support Officer, Family Support Worker, Prison Visitor Coordinator, Social Worker, Family Liaison Officer, Criminal Justice Case Worker, Family Welfare Officer, Reintegration Support Specialist, Community Engagement Officer, Custodial Support Specialist, Client Services Coordinator, Family Advocacy Officer, Child and Family Support Practitioner, Family Programme Coordinator, etc.
REF-217 977
Location: London, GB
Posted Date: 11/28/2024
Job Type: Full time
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: £31,500 per annum + £3,000 market supplement
As a Family Engagement Manager at HMP Pentonville, you will play a pivotal role in supporting the complex and varied needs of prisoners and their families. By developing robust referral pathways and managing a caseload of family support cases, you will ensure that each family receives personalised care and support. Additionally, you will advocate for the rights and needs of families, ensuring their voices are heard and respected within the prison system. This role requires a compassionate, dedicated individual committed to making a meaningful difference in the lives of those affected by imprisonment.
Key Responsibilities:
Provide comprehensive services ensuring that prisoners, their children, carers, and other relatives receive appropriate advice, guidance, learning opportunities, care, and support to maintain or enhance positive relationships.
Develop and implement effective referral pathways for families, prisoners, and other professionals to access family support services.
Establish connections with other relevant services to ensure seamless integration and support.
Manage a caseload of family support cases related to prisoners.
Conduct detailed assessments to inform and tailor support for the family unit, ensuring personalised and effective interventions.
Advocate for the rights and needs of families dealing with imprisonment.
Promote their human rights and ensure their voices are heard and considered at all levels of decision-making and service provision.
About You:
Demonstrable ability to coordinate a broad range of services.
Experience and understanding of working with families in a challenging multi-agency environment, preferably involving offenders and/or their families.
Excellent organisational skills and the capacity to manage a demanding workload.
Ability to contribute to the planning and development of Pacts family work.
Knowledge of safeguarding and child protection practices.
Exceptional interpersonal communication skills and the ability to build partnerships with various agencies.
This offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact on the lives of families and offenders by enhancing the support and services available to them. If you are passionate about family engagement and have the relevant skills and experience, we encourage you to apply.
What we offer:
Pact offers a range of benefits including a free advice, information and counselling service, contributory pension, corporate eye care scheme, cycle to work scheme and generous holiday entitlement. You will have the opportunity to attend training events to further develop yourself as a professional training and interventions worker. You will undergo a thorough induction process and be supported by a friendly and enthusiastic team.
How to apply:
If you feel that you meet the requirements of this exciting new role please complete an application form by clicking the `apply now` button.
* We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
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 a 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.
Pacts 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.
As an inclusive employer, we welcome requests for job adverts and descriptions in accessible formats (for e.g. larger text) for candidates with disabilities, including those with neurodiversity.
You may have experience in the following: Family Engagement Officer, Community Outreach Worker, Social Care Coordinator, Case Manager, Rehabilitation Support Officer, Family Support Worker, Prison Visitor Coordinator, Social Worker, Family Liaison Officer, Criminal Justice Case Worker, Family Welfare Officer, Reintegration Support Specialist, Community Engagement Officer, Custodial Support Specialist, Client Services Coordinator, Family Advocacy Officer, Child and Family Support Practitioner, Family Programme Coordinator, etc.
REF-217 977
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Location: London, GB
Posted Date: 11/28/2024
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