Family Worker

4 months ago

Portland, United Kingdom Change Grow Live Full time

Overview:
**Change Grow Live** are a charity dedicated to the belief that we can make a difference to our Service Users lives, offering support and respect in a safe environment, treating each user as an individual and working with them to find the right treatment and care options.

Our core values are

Are you able to support families through difficult times? Do you have expertise in enabling people to develop relationship and parenting skills? Could you do this in a prison setting?

**If yes, then this could be the job for you**

**Where**:HMP Portland - South West Prisons

**When**: We’re looking to get the right person into the team ASAP

**Hours**: 37.5hrs per week

**Salary**: £26,393 - £30,316 dependent on experience

**Responsibilities**:
Change Grow Live have recently won the contract to run the Recovery Services within the 10 male prisons in the Southwest of England and have some exciting new opportunities.

We support people in prison around their drug and alcohol and related issues - including their family relationships.

In this role you will not only support the person in prison around their family needs and goals but you will also extend that support to their family in the community.

You will need to balance a supportive and empowering approach with also having a careful eye on risk and safeguarding concerns.

Working as part of a wider drug and alcohol service within the prison you will be a strong team player and able to work well with a range of partners including prison officers, probation and social work teams.

You will have experience of working with families with complex needs.

You will need to demonstrate understanding of the issues around drug and alcohol, Recovery, and the criminal justice system.

As well as getting the support of your line manager on site, you will also be part of a new South-West wide team of Family workers with opportunities to work collaboratively. You will also receive a range of training and development opportunities.

**Please read the attached job description for a more detailed outline of responsibilities and person specification**

If this sounds like the role for you and you’d like to begin your journey with
**Change Grow Live**, then we’d love to speak with you

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