Support Team Leader 

Pact is a national charity that provides support to prisoners, people with convictions, and their families both in prison and the community. We believe in inter-dependence and in the fundamental importance of healthy relationships and the family to reduce the chances of re-offending and intergenerational crime. With this at the core, we are developing a new innovative family service pilot in partnership with HMP Brixton, HMPPS and Porticus, that will deliver an end to end integrated rehabilitation and resettlement support programme to prisoners and their children and families. The service will ensure 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, from the first day of arrival at Brixton prison, to up to 6 months post release. 


Position: Family Resettlement Team Leader x 2 
Location: HMP Brixton, London, SW2 
Job type: Full Time, Permanent 
Hours: 37.5 hours per week 
Salary: £27,000 per annum 

Closing date: 22 February 2019 


About the role: 

This is an opportunity for a skilled practitioner with relevant experience and leadership skills to help develop and deliver Pact’s ground-breaking new family service at HMP Brixton and in the community. You will manage a team of staff and volunteers including prisoner volunteers, to deliver prisoner assessment, the development of Family Care plans, prisoner and family support and casework and befriending in prison and in the community. 

You will be part of a wider team developing and testing a service based on best practice and the recommendations of the Lord Farmer report, that will reduce re-offending, build stronger families, and show the way forward in an integrated approach to prisoner care & rehabilitation and supporting the children and families of prisoners. 

About you: 

As a role model for your team, and an ambassador for Pact, you will demonstrate through your management style and conduct, our ethos and values, including positive, healthy relationships, reflective practice, partnership-building, teamwork, creativity and transparency. 

You will have significant experience of working with families and children, including casework and worked in custody or a challenging community setting. You will also have an awareness of the impact of custody and subsequent release on prisoners, and on children and families. With management skills, relevant experience and a genuine enthusiasm and commitment to supporting prisoners and their families, you will be confident to manage your team and support the development of the service to demonstrate its effectiveness as a blueprint for resettlement prisons. 

What Pact Offers: 

Pact offers a range of employee benefits including free confidential advice and counselling, generous holiday entitlement, cycle to work scheme, free eye care vouchers and pension. You will undergo a thorough induction and training programme and be supported by a friendly, enthusiastic and committed team. 

You may have experience of the following: Family Support Team Leader, Support Worker, Family Practitioner, Practitioner, Family Support, Family Engagement, Support Team Leader, Team Leader, Care Team Leader, Social Care, Charity, Charities, Third Sector, Not for Profit, NFP, etc