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Family Engagement Worker

Employer
hireful
Location
Maidstone
Salary
£12900 per annum
Closing date
16 Sep 2019

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Family Engagement Worker 

You will join our client as a Family Engagement Worker delivering family services in HMP East Sutton Park as part of a team, with a focus on family casework, but offering support to other aspects of the service including visitor centre services; play and children’s services; social enterprise refreshment service; booking line; complex family casework and support for family group work interventions. 

Family Engagement Worker Requirements: 

- Demonstrable capacity to coordinate a broad service, as well as experience and understanding of working with families in a challenging multi-agency environment, ideally involving offenders and / or their families. 
- Experience of casework with service users, and of maintaining clear, up to date records. 
- Excellent organisational skills and the ability to manage a demanding workload. 
- Excellent interpersonal communication skills and ability to work in build partnerships with a range of agencies. 

About Our Client: 

Our client,  together with its subsidiary, Futures, a Community Interest Company, work across England and Wales to develop and deliver a range of innovative services, providing practical and emotional support to prisoners’ children and families, to prisoners, and to people with convictions. They enable active community engagement in criminal justice work through facilitating volunteering. Their work is founded on core values, the first of which is a belief in the innate dignity of every human being. Their focus is on human relationships, family and community. They are committed to achieving high standards of quality in all that they do. 

Other information: 

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 enhanced check. Please note that being bankrupt or having County Court Judgements may affect your ability to be successfully vetted to work in a prison. 

Location: HMP East Sutton Park 

Job type: Part Time, Permanent, 22.5 hours per week 

Salary: £12,900 (£21,500 pro rata) per annum 

Benefits: generous holiday entitlement, free information, advice and counselling service, cycle to work scheme and more 

Closing date: 15 September 2019 
Interviews commencing week beginning: 23 September 2019 

You may have experience of the following: Case Management, Rehabilitation, Family Services, Support Work, Criminal Justice System, Charity, Charities, Third Sector, Not For Profit, Social Work, Advocacy, Mentor, Mentoring, etc. 

Ref: 88790

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