Family Resettlement Worker (Lead)

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity to be a part of a pilot project across nine women's prisons supporting women with their family ties three months pre-release and a minimum of two weeks post-release; linking them into ongoing provision within the community.

As a Lead 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 co-design a person-centred 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.

Main duties of the job

To be successful in this role you will have demonstrable experience and understanding of working with families in a challenging multi-agency 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 post-release.

In addition, you will possess excellent organisational skills, excellent communication skills and be able to work in a prison environment whilst remaining calm. As the sole Pact worker onsite, you will need to work independently, developing partnerships and relationships across the estate. Furthermore, you will act as an ambassador for Pact, conducting yourself professionally at all times, with high standards of personal integrity and accountability.

About us

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.

Pacts 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.