Emotional Support Facilitator

Pact; Preston; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Pact as an Emotional Resilience Facilitator to support prisoners' health and wellbeing at HMP Preston. This role values personal experience with incarceration, strong communication skills, and the ability to empathize with individuals facing emotional challenges. Pact offers a supportive team environment and professional development opportunities.

Benefits

Free advice, information, and counselling service

Contributory pension

Corporate eye care scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Generous holiday entitlement

Opportunities for professional development

Qualifications

• Personal experience of imprisonment is a plus.
• Comfortable communicating with diverse backgrounds.
• Ability to connect and empathize with prisoners' emotional challenges.

Responsibilities

• Support delivery of Pact’s Emotional Resilience service.
• Help promote health and wellbeing of prisoners entering HMP Preston.
• Liaise with various people and organizations.

Skills

Empathy

Communication

Listening

Organisational skills

Job description

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We'd love you to join us to help promote the health and wellbeing of prisoners entering HMP Preston. Emotional Resilience Facilitators will support the delivery of Pact’s Emotional Resilience service to benefit prisoners. If you have an understanding of prison, and are a real 'doer' and 'people person', you might be the person we're looking for.

About You:

Please note that this role is open to individuals with their own personal experience of imprisonment, and those without.

Because you personally know what prison's like, you'll be able to connect with people in prison, empathise with their emotional challenges, and work to support them effectively. You'll be comfortable communicating with people of all backgrounds, able to find the right words and tone to help people share your vision, and be a great listener who understands others' points of view. You will be hardworking, naturally organised, calm under pressure, and experienced in liaising with various people and organisations to achieve goals. If this sounds like you, we'd love to meet you.

Organisation:

Pact is a highly respected independent charity working across England and Wales to develop and deliver innovative services. We provide practical and emotional support to prisoners’ children and families, to prisoners, and those resettling into the community. Our work is founded on core values, including a belief in the innate dignity of every human being, focusing on human relationships, family, and community. We are committed to high standards of quality in all we do.

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 opportunities for professional development through training and interventions. You will undergo a thorough induction and be supported by a friendly, enthusiastic team.