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Prison Advice and Care Trust; Town of Yorkshire (NY); On-site; USD 34,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Contributory pension

Eye care

Cycle to work

Generous leave

Training opportunities

Job summary

Prison Advice and Care Trust is recruiting a Personal Wellbeing Advisor to work across Huddersfield, Dewsbury, Halifax and Bradford. You will support people with convictions to improve wellbeing and strengthen family relationships, offering one-to-one support, group sessions and workshops.

You will engage sensitively with clients with complex needs, build trusting relationships and work with partners to evidence outcomes and achieve service targets.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting people with multiple and complex needs.
• Experience in family work and understanding impact of criminality on family relationships.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide one-to-one support to individuals.
• Deliver and lead group sessions and workshops.
• Collaborate with partner agencies to achieve service targets.

Skills

Empathy

Communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Group facilitation

Parenting support

Tools

Case management

Job description

Personal Wellbeing Advisor - Huddersfield, Dewsbury, Halifax and Bradford

Company:

Company: Prison Advice and Care Trust

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 prisoner's 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.

About the role

A great opportunity has arisen for an experienced professional to join Pact as we start delivering a new community-based service supporting people with convictions to improve their personal wellbeing and strengthen family relationships.

One-to-one support will be core to the service including building trust and undertaking activities and interventions that meet the needs of each individual. You will also deliver group sessions and workshops to support the development of skills and strategies such as communication, resilience, negotiation and assertiveness skills; confident and responsible parenting behaviours and positive coping strategies. You will be responsible for working towards service delivery targets and providing information to evidence outcomes achieved. Working with other professionals in partnership delivery will also be key.

About you:

As a key member of our values-led charity, you will be motivated to support people to turn their lives around. With a background in supporting people who have multiple and complex needs you will have the skills to engage sensitively with people about an area of their lives that is often the most important, their family. Ideally with experience of family work, you will understand the impact of criminality of family relationships. You will also have excellent interpersonal skills to equip you to build important relationships with partner agencies.

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.

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), and an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check.