Family Resettlement Worker

This is an exciting opportunity to be working within womens prisons supporting women with their family ties three months prerelease and a minimum of two weeks postrelease; linking them into ongoing provision within the community.

As a Family Resettlement Worker you will lead and deliver a service that ensures prisoners their children carers and other relatives have access to appropriate advice guidance learning opportunities care and support to better enable them to maintain or enhance positive relationships

You will assist in developing referral pathways for families prisoners and other professionals to access the service working in partnership with existing family service providers operating within the prison. You will codesign a personcentred Relationship Care Plan with women accessing support enabling you to support them to address their family and relationship needs as they prepare for release. The role will combine a casework based approach with delivery of programmes and courses along with a signposting and advice service for the women in custody and their families.

You will build strong relationships with Probation Practitioners to ensure referrals to further family support via the Probation Womens Services providers are made prerelease to support a seamless handover. This together with referrals to wider partner organisations in the community will ensure additional support needs are addressed postrelease and continuity of support exists.

**For details of the length of contract please see the job description**

* 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.

About You:

To be successful in this role you will have demonstrable experience and understanding of working with families in a challenging multiagency environment ideally working with 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 and ensure effective support for women postrelease.

In addition you will possess excellent organisational skills excellent communication skills and be able to work in a prison environment whilst remaining calm. Furthermore you will act as an ambassador for Pact conducting yourself professionally at all times with high standards of personal integrity and accountability.

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 6month 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.