This is a hands on management role. You'll be responsible for ensuring our services are delivered effectively, that positive family relationships are maintained and strengthened, and that family work is fully integrated within prisoners' care and rehabilitation plans. You'll manage teams of paid staff, volunteers, students on placement and serving prisoners acting as family champions supporting, supervising and developing them to deliver consistently high quality services.

You'll manage day to day operations across your allocated sites, contributing to operating plans and performance monitoring, and providing regular reports to your line manager. You'll play a key role in ensuring contractual targets are met and that the needs of prisoners, family members and carers are at the heart of everything we do.

You'll also embed learning into programme delivery, drawing on performance data, frontline experience, lived experience, feedback from families and prisoners, our own research, and relevant external evidence and policy.

For the full job description, including the keys areas of responsibilities and accountabilities, please click the 'apply now' button.

We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applications including those with a criminal conviction with appointment to post being subject to a risk assessment.

This post is subject to a six month probationary period, verification of identity and proven right to work in the UK, satisfactory references from previous employers covering a three 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.

• Experience of managing services and staff across multiple sites, ideally within the criminal justice, social care or voluntary sector.
• A strong understanding of the challenges facing prisoners and their families.
• The ability to build productive relationships with a wide range of stakeholders, including statutory and voluntary sector partners.
• Experience of performance monitoring, reporting and using data to drive service improvement.
• Confidence in recruiting, inducting and developing staff, volunteers and peer supporters.
• A collaborative approach, with the ability to work across organisational boundaries and share learning and best practice.
• A commitment to involving the voices of people with lived experience in service design and delivery.

For the full person specification, please click the 'apply now' button.

Disclaimer: We will be interviewing for this role as suitable applications are received and may close this role before the closing date upon a successful candidate being appointed.