Job Details
Family Support Worker
Pact (Prison Advice and Care Trust)
Latest Job
Expires in 17 days
Overview
As a Family Support Worker 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.
£27,007.50 Full Time Equivalent, £8,642.40 actual earnings
Per year
Part time, Permanent
(12 hours per week, 13:30 – 17:30 Monday, Tuesday, Thursday)
HMP Brixton, London
Key information
You will work as one of the PACT Family team and will be based primarily in the prison's visitor centre and visits hall providing support, advice and guidance to families visiting prisoners, facilitating prison visits and family days and supporting the play service.
About the role
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 and social care.
Our volunteers and staff can be found in courts, prisons, probation services, and in communities across England and 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 example larger text) for candidates with disabilities, including those with neurodiversity. Please contact us via hr.resume@prisonadvice.org.uk, if you require any support in engaging in our recruitment process.
Requirements
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 also have knowledge of safeguarding/child protection practice. Finally, you will have excellent interpersonal communication skills and an ability to work and build partnerships with a range of agencies.