Listen to Families: Team Member (Casual) South East
Listen to Families: Team Member (Casual) South East
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Job Description
Paid Opportunity:
Listen to Families Team Member
Summary
A Listen to Families Team Member role is a flexible paid position designed for people who currently have a loved one in a London prison or whose loved one has previously been inside a London prison within the last 12 months.
Pact is working with the NHS in London to give families and carers more of a say in how prison healthcare is developed and delivered. By sharing your experiences and discussing how to improve things youll play an important part in making sure families and carers get their voices heard.
Playing your part in the team takes between 4 and 8 hours a month. Team Members usually combine their work for Pact with other employment or caring responsibilities and we design the roles to be as flexible as possible.
About you
- You will know what its like to have a loved one in a London prison. Someone you are close to will either be serving time now or have previously been inside a prison in London (HMP Brixton HMP Belmarsh HMP/YOI Feltham HMP/YOI Isis HMP Pentonville HMP Thameside HMP Wandsworth and HMP Wormwood Scrubs) or the Southeast (HMP Aylesbury HMP Elmley HMP Downview and HMP Huntercombe) within the last 12 months.
- The person imprisoned will be someone you care about and are close to. For example they might be your partner son husband brother nephew uncle cousin grandfather step-brother step-fatherfamily memberorafriend.
- You will have experience of supporting your loved one with their healthcare needsin prison. They might havemental health physical healthdentistryor eye-care needs orhaveseveralissuesat the same time.
- Youllbe keen to help the NHS improvethe healthcare in prisonsby sharing your experiences.
Responsibilities
- Youll share your experiences directly with NHS London and the organisations who provide healthcare in London prisons.
- Youll give feedback on key questions that have come up through the Listen to Families programmes work or that come from the NHS.
- Youlljoin focus groups about prison healthcare and feed into discussions about how it could improve.
- Youllstay in the loop remotely via our chat group and emails.
- You will attend a monthly video call with the whole Listen to Families team and contribute to discussions.
- You will come along to coffee mornings for people who have a loved one in prison and help everyone feel safe comfortable and welcome.
- Youllcontribute to specific projects working with others to develop recommendations about what needs to change.
- Working as part of a team youll support others in the Listen to Families network as we work to improve prison healthcare together.
- Youll learn about how healthcare happens in prisons who does what and how different parts of the system work.
- Other tasks and opportunities may be available as the programme develops.
Expectations
- You will receive full training and support from Pact.
- Youll follow Pacts policies and procedures including safeguarding data protection and confidentiality.
If youd like to have an informal chat about the role wed love to hear from you. Please email
We have a limited number of spaces on the team and positions will be offered to suitable candidates on a rolling basis. Whilst there is no deadline to apply your application is more likely to succeed if we receive it sooner rather than later.
Employment Type
Part-Time
