Family Support Practitioner - HMP Bronzefield
Ashford | £24,000 - £25,844/year | careers-forwardtrust.icims.com |
Overview:
We are The Forward Trust (formerly RAPt and Blue Sky), the social enterprise with charitable status that empowers people to break the often interlinked cycles of crime and addiction to move forward with their lives. For more than 25 years we have been working with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past.
We believe that anyone is capable of lasting change. Our services have supported thousands of people to make positive changes and build productive lives with a job, family, friends and a sense of community.
We believe and are committed to providing opportunities to all people including those with ‘Lived Experience’ we encourage applications from all background including those in recovery from addiction, co-dependency or gambling, have experience of previous offending or homelessness.
What you will be doing?:
Forward Trust offers a range of interventions at HMP Bronzefield, a closed category Female remand prison where this role will be based. Our Family Work Strategy has been devised on the basis of a thorough needs assessment, informed by available research both from within the field and across the organisation itself.
The Strategy aims to include both clients and their families as part of Forward’s treatment programmes; ensuring that there are separate and distinct pathways for each, which will naturally merge and overlap, enabling us to utilise the joint involvement of family members and Concerned Significant Others (CSOs) where appropriate and feasible.
To ensure a successful family work framework across the organisation we look to understand the level of need and implement a range of appropriate interventions for families and CSOs both in prison and the community. The Family Worker Coordinator supports the implementation of the strategy across the organisation guiding Service Managers and Connections Family Workers to deliver their role within each service.
You will be expected to hold a caseload of clients and promote successful enagement of interventions and services. Care planning, assessment of need, risk and safeguarding will be essential to the role. You will be delivering specific trauma informed and gender responsive interventions face to face both 1:1 and group facilitation.
Release planning and ensuring effective continiuty of care alongside team of Health and Wellbeing practitioners will be a central part of the role.
What we are looking for?:
• Experience of providing support to families and providing help for family-related issues that may affect clients in prison and community services
• Flexibility to meet the needs of the service as it develops
• A positive problem-solving approach with the ability to focus on key issues quickly and clearly
• Effective negotiating and influencing skills
• Previous experience of developing and implementing service improvements
• The ability to engage effectively with the client group
• Understanding of the voluntary sector
• Understanding of and sensitivity to diversity and equality issues
• Working knowledge of using Microsoft office packages and databases
• An understanding of a range of treatment approaches in the field of substance misuse, including the 12 step model.
What we offer:
• Training opportunities and career development
• Flexible working
• 3 x Wellbeing Days (pro rata'd for part time employees)
• Season Ticket Loan Scheme
• Crisis Loan Scheme
• Electric Car Scheme
• Access to Blue Light Card
• Cycle to work scheme
• 25 days (rising to 30 with length of service) Annual Leave plus Bank Holidays
• Simply Health Cashback Scheme
• Contributory Pension Scheme – Employer matched contributions of up to 6% in the first two years’ service and up to 9% thereafter
• Death in Service Payment (2x annual salary)
• Critical Illness Insurance (subject to qualifying criteria)
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Person specification:
Family Support Practitioner_surrey
We are The Forward Trust (formerly RAPt and Blue Sky), the social enterprise with charitable status that empowers people to break the often interlinked cycles of crime and addiction to move forward with their lives. For more than 25 years we have been working with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past.
We believe that anyone is capable of lasting change. Our services have supported thousands of people to make positive changes and build productive lives with a job, family, friends and a sense of community.
We believe and are committed to providing opportunities to all people including those with ‘Lived Experience’ we encourage applications from all background including those in recovery from addiction, co-dependency or gambling, have experience of previous offending or homelessness.
What you will be doing?:
Forward Trust offers a range of interventions at HMP Bronzefield, a closed category Female remand prison where this role will be based. Our Family Work Strategy has been devised on the basis of a thorough needs assessment, informed by available research both from within the field and across the organisation itself.
The Strategy aims to include both clients and their families as part of Forward’s treatment programmes; ensuring that there are separate and distinct pathways for each, which will naturally merge and overlap, enabling us to utilise the joint involvement of family members and Concerned Significant Others (CSOs) where appropriate and feasible.
To ensure a successful family work framework across the organisation we look to understand the level of need and implement a range of appropriate interventions for families and CSOs both in prison and the community. The Family Worker Coordinator supports the implementation of the strategy across the organisation guiding Service Managers and Connections Family Workers to deliver their role within each service.
You will be expected to hold a caseload of clients and promote successful enagement of interventions and services. Care planning, assessment of need, risk and safeguarding will be essential to the role. You will be delivering specific trauma informed and gender responsive interventions face to face both 1:1 and group facilitation.
Release planning and ensuring effective continiuty of care alongside team of Health and Wellbeing practitioners will be a central part of the role.
What we are looking for?:
• Experience of providing support to families and providing help for family-related issues that may affect clients in prison and community services
• Flexibility to meet the needs of the service as it develops
• A positive problem-solving approach with the ability to focus on key issues quickly and clearly
• Effective negotiating and influencing skills
• Previous experience of developing and implementing service improvements
• The ability to engage effectively with the client group
• Understanding of the voluntary sector
• Understanding of and sensitivity to diversity and equality issues
• Working knowledge of using Microsoft office packages and databases
• An understanding of a range of treatment approaches in the field of substance misuse, including the 12 step model.
What we offer:
• Training opportunities and career development
• Flexible working
• 3 x Wellbeing Days (pro rata'd for part time employees)
• Season Ticket Loan Scheme
• Crisis Loan Scheme
• Electric Car Scheme
• Access to Blue Light Card
• Cycle to work scheme
• 25 days (rising to 30 with length of service) Annual Leave plus Bank Holidays
• Simply Health Cashback Scheme
• Contributory Pension Scheme – Employer matched contributions of up to 6% in the first two years’ service and up to 9% thereafter
• Death in Service Payment (2x annual salary)
• Critical Illness Insurance (subject to qualifying criteria)
#familysupportworker #familyworker #supportworker #prisonjobs #safeguarding #children #family
Person specification:
Family Support Practitioner_surrey
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