Family Engagement Worker
| Posting date: | 02 May 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £25,725 per annum FTE, £15,092 per annum actual earnings |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 01 June 2025 |
| Location: | Hatfield Woodhouse, DN7 6BW |
| Company: | Prison Advice and Care Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 1715 |
Summary
Role overview
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 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:
Pact offer a wide range of employee benefits including 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.
How to Apply:
If you feel that you meet the requirements for this 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 Judgments may affect your ability to be successfully vetted to work in a prison.
If you have lived overseas for a period of 12 months or more (in the past 10 years while aged 18 or over), we will also require a
certificate of good conduct from the Police Force of the country of residence.
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 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:
Pact offer a wide range of employee benefits including 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.
How to Apply:
If you feel that you meet the requirements for this 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 Judgments may affect your ability to be successfully vetted to work in a prison.
If you have lived overseas for a period of 12 months or more (in the past 10 years while aged 18 or over), we will also require a
certificate of good conduct from the Police Force of the country of residence.