Family Engagement Manager (Scale 2)

PACT (Prison Advice and Care Trust); Bristol; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading charity organization in Bristol is seeking a Family Engagement Manager to manage family engagement casework, organize events, and liaise with subcontractors in a challenging environment. The ideal candidate will have excellent organizational and interpersonal skills, with experience in coordinating services in a multi-agency context.

Benefits

Contributory pension

Generous holiday entitlement

Cycle to work scheme

Free advice and counselling service

Qualifications

• Experience managing a service in a challenging environment.
• Demonstrable capacity to coordinate family services.
• Excellent organizational skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Manage family engagement casework within the prison.
• Organize Family Days periodically.
• Liaise with subcontractors in the Visits Centre.

Skills

Coordination in multi-agency environment

Emotional resilience

Organizational skills

Knowledge of safeguarding practices

Interpersonal communication

Job description

Overview

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As Family Engagement Manager, you will manage Pact's Family engagement casework within the prison, organise Family Days periodically and liaise with our subcontractors in the Visits Centre. You will also oversee the visits centre booking line. HMP Bristol is an exciting opportunity to work in a faced paced and challenging environment.

Responsibilities

• Manage Pact's Family engagement casework within the prison.
• Organise Family Days periodically.
• Liaise with subcontractors in the Visits Centre.
• Oversee the visits centre booking line.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable capacity to coordinate a broad service, as well as experience and understanding of working with families in a challenging multi-agency environment, ideally involving offenders and/or their families.
• Experience managing a service in which emotional resilience is required.
• Excellent organisational skills and ability to manage a demanding workload.
• Ability to contribute to the planning and development of Pact's family work; knowledge of safeguarding/child protection practice.
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills and ability to build partnerships with a range of agencies.

Organisation

Pact is a highly respected independent charity, working across England and Wales to develop and deliver a range of innovative services. We provide practical and emotional support to prisoners' children and families, to prisoners and those who have resettled back into the community. Our work is founded on core values, the first of which is a belief in the innate dignity of every human being, and our work focusses on human relationships, family and community. We are committed to achieving high standards of quality in all that 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 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.