Family Engagement Worker

Prison Advice and Care Trust; Maidstone; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 29,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Confidential counselling

Cycle to work

Life Assurance

Eye care vouchers

Job summary

Prison Advice and Care Trust (PACT) is seeking a Family Engagement Worker to support prisoners' families with casework, advice, and guidance. You will facilitate prison visits and deliver family induction sessions while developing referral pathways for families, prisoners and professionals to access services.

The role requires experience in challenging multi-agency environments, a solutions-focused mindset, and the ability to manage multiple tasks in high-stress settings.

Qualifications

• Experience with families in a challenging multi-agency environment.
• Advocacy for families affected by imprisonment.

Responsibilities

• Provide family casework support to prisoners and their families.
• Advocate for families handling imprisonment and human rights considerations.
• Facilitate prison visits and deliver family induction sessions.
• Develop referral pathways for families, prisoners and professionals to access the service.
• Act as a role model for volunteers and uphold professional standards.

Skills

Casework

Key Working

Advice & Guidance

Emotional Support

Job description

As Family Engagement Worker, you will work as one of the Pact Family team, providing family casework support to prisoners, as well as support to the families of prisoners through advice and guidance, facilitating prison visits, and delivering family induction sessions.

About You:

To be successful in this role you will have demonstrable experience and understanding of working with families in a challenging multi-agency environment, ideally involving prisoners and/or their families. You will have the ability to advocate for families dealing with imprisonment, promoting their human rights and ensuring their needs are considered, and views are heard at all levels.You will be a creative person who can organise activities for imprisoned Dads and children. You will have the ability to develop referral pathways for families, prisoners and other professionals to access the service. You may have experience of the following: Casework, Key Working, providing advice, guidance and emotional support to male service users.

You will act as a role model for volunteers and an ambassador for PACT, conducting yourself professionally at all times with high standards of personal integrity and accountability. You need to be solutions-focused, adaptable, flexible, emotionally resilient and capable of managing multiple tasks in high stress environments.

What Pact Offer:

• free confidential advice and counselling service
• cycle to work scheme
• Life Assurance
• Specsavers eye care vouchers
• plus more.

You will undergo a thorough induction process attend training to further develop yourself as a frontline services worker and be supported by a friendly and enthusiastic team.

A car may be desirable for this role, though not essential.

Pact is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from all backgrounds including those who have previous convictions (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 HMPPS/MoJ Security Prison Vetting, and satisfactory employer references covering a minimum of 3 years and a satisfactory enhanced DBS. Please note that being bankrupt or having County Court Judgments may affect your ability to be successfully vetted to work in a prison.

£26,227.50 per annum full time earnings, £7,343.70 actual earnings