Family Engagement Worker

As a Family Engagement Worker, you'll be an integral part of the Pact Family team, offering crucial support to both prisoners and their families. Your responsibilities will encompass providing casework assistance to prisoners, offering guidance and support to families, facilitating prison visits, and conducting family induction sessions.

About You:

To excel in this role, you'll need to demonstrate substantial experience in navigating the complexities of family dynamics within a challenging multi-agency setting, ideally involving prisoners and their loved ones. Your role will involve advocating for families affected by incarceration, ensuring their rights are upheld and their voices are heard across all levels. Developing referral pathways for families, prisoners, and other professionals to access our services will also be a key aspect of your role. Your background may include experience in casework, key working, and providing emotional support to male service users.

In addition to your professional duties, you'll serve as a role model for our volunteers and represent PACT with the utmost professionalism and integrity. Your approach should be solutions-focused, adaptable, and resilient, capable of managing numerous tasks within high-pressure environments.

What we offer:

Pact offers a range of benefits including free advice, information and counselling services, 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 intervention 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 3 years, 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 Judgments may affect your ability to be successfully vetted to work in a prison.

You may have experience in the following: Parent Educator, Family Outreach Coordinator, Home Visitor, Parent Involvement Specialist, Family Services Coordinator, Community Organizer, Family Resource Coordinator, and Family Navigator.

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