Family Support Team Manager (Scale 2)

Prison Advice and Care Trust (Pact); Greater London; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Contributory pension

Counselling service

Eye care scheme

Cycle to work

Season ticket loan

Discounts for charity workers

Enhanced maternity package

Wellness & diversity groups

Blue Light Card

Job summary

Pact (the Prison Advice & Care Trust) is offering a permanent, full-time role as Family Support Team Manager at HMP Isis. You will oversee the visitor centre and support families during visits, including coordinating bookings, catering, play sessions, and family-focused activities.

We are looking for someone with experience of multi-agency working with families, safeguarding knowledge, and strong organisational skills to develop Pact's family work and ensure high-quality family services within

Qualifications

• Demonstrable ability to coordinate a broad range of services (≤140 chars)
• Experience with families in a challenging multi-agency environment
• Excellent organisational skills and capacity to manage a demanding workload
• Ability to contribute to the planning and development of Pact's family work
• Knowledge of safeguarding and child protection practices
• Exceptional interpersonal communication and ability to build partnerships

Responsibilities

• Manage the visitor centre provision at HMP Isis
• Oversee the prison's booking line service
• Coordinate family visit catering services
• Facilitate play sessions for children during family visits
• Implement family-focused interventions, including homework clubs, special visits, and themed family days
• Support families' access to secure video visits

Skills

Coordination

Multi-agency

Safeguarding

Stakeholder Eng

Organisational

Job description

Hours: 37.5 hours per week (rota with regular weekend work)

Contract: Permanent, full time

We are offering an opportunity for the role of Family Support Team Manager (known as a Family Engagement Manager internally) at HMP Isis. In this role, you will oversee Pact's visitor centre services, including managing the prison's booking line service, family visit catering, play sessions for children during family visits, and family-focused interventions such as homework clubs, special visits, and themed family days. Additionally, you will support families' access to secure video visits and coordinate with our subcontractors in the Visits Centre.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage the visitor centre provision at HMP Isis
• Oversee the prison's booking line service
• Coordinate family visit catering services
• Facilitate play sessions for children during family visits
• Implement family-focused interventions, including homework clubs, special visits, and themed family days
• Support families' access to secure video visits

About You

To thrive in this role, you should possess:

• Demonstrable ability to coordinate a broad range of services
• Experience and understanding of working with families in a challenging multi-agency environment, preferably involving offenders and/or their families
• Excellent organisational skills and the capacity to manage a demanding workload
• Ability to contribute to the planning and development of Pact's family work
• Knowledge of safeguarding and child protection practices
• Exceptional interpersonal communication skills and the ability to build partnerships with various agencies

About Pact

Pact (the Prison Advice & Care Trust) is a pioneering national charity that provides caring and life changing services to men and women in prison, to people with convictions on release and in the community, and to their children and families. We provide practical and emotional support to prisoners' children and families, to prisoners and those who have resettled back into the community.

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 & social care.

Our volunteers and staff can be found in courts, prisons, probation services, and in communities across England & 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.

What We Offer

You will have the opportunity to attend training events to further develop yourself professionally. You will undergo a thorough induction process and be supported by a friendly and enthusiastic team. Benefits include:

• Contributory pension
• Free advice, information and counselling service
• Corporate eye care scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Charity worker discounts
• Enhanced maternity package
• Wellness, inclusion, and diversity groups
• Blue Light Card

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.

You may have experience in the following:

• Family Engagement Manager
• Family Support Manager
• Visitor Centre Manager
• Family Services Manager
• Team Manager
• Family Support Worker
• Family Engagement Worker
• Prison Family Support
• Offender Family Services
• Children and Families Manager
• Service Manager
• Charity Services Manager
• etc.