Family Engagement Worker

7 days ago

Leeds, United Kingdom Jigsaw Visitors Centre Full time

**Introduction**

The aims of the Family Engagement Service are to improve the outcomes for children and families of offenders, to support and foster the maintenance of positive family relationships and champion a ‘Think Family’ approach to reduce re-offending.

**Job Purpose**

To provide warm, human support and to ensure that children, families and prisoners are treated with respect, dignity, courtesy and care. To help ensure families are able to gain greater access to support and early help within their local community and services and families work together to decrease the chance of intergenerational crime.

**Key tasks, duties and responsibilities**
- Ensure that offenders, their children, carers, and other relatives have access to appropriate information, advice, guidance, learning opportunities, care and support to better enable them to maintain or enhance positive relationships.
- Develop referral pathways for families, offenders and other professionals to access the service as well as information sharing and routes of referral into community based services
- Provide warm human support and to ensure that children, families and offenders are treated with respect, dignity, courtesy and care
- Attend case work meetings (case discussion, support and guidance) as required.
- Support the use of the Common Assessment Framework (CAF) with regard to children and young people who may be at risk, and to support closer working between prisons, Probation Trusts, the CAF co-ordinator and team, Local Authority Children’s Social Care, Local Safeguarding Children’s Board, and Children’s Services such as Children’s Centres.
- Promote and facilitate the targeted, active and informed participation of family members and other ‘supporters’ in both prison-based and community interventions, activities, relationship and parenting skills programmes, thus giving family members an opportunity to contribute to the prisoners’ resettlement journey
- Ensure that local agency and LSCB Safeguarding Children policies are adhered to at all times and that children feel welcomed, valued and safe.
- Actively promote and support the development of extended prison visit arrangements and where possible, child-centred visits and all-day family visits.
- Promote opportunities for families of offenders, (where they claim out of work benefits and present complexity of needs), to benefit from the DWP Families with Complex Needs provision.
- Support the recruitment, vetting, training, and supervision of placements of volunteers drawn from local communities and/or student placements, to support the delivery of services.
- Develop and maintain positive, professional and effective working relationships with local authority officers, prison staff and other partners and providers.
- Take responsibility for identifying training needs in support of continuous professional development
- Maintain accurate records as required and records of own annual leave, TOIL and (where appropriate) use of flexi-time.
- Undertake any other duties commensurate with the post as required
- Ensure prison security policies and rules are adhered to by self, staff and volunteers at all times. Personnel must comply at all times with prison security regulations. In a highly restricted environment pressure will be encountered to breach security, often on the grounds of compassion. It is essential that workers are able to recognise and resist this pressure, work within the defined boundaries and report attempts to breach security to their line manager without delay.
- Assist on delivery of family interventions including family days, dads and kids days and homework clubs
- Delivery training courses around parenting, relationships, family learning and debt management
- Support and contribute to the ACCT, Safer Prisons/Violent Reduction and Safeguarding processes within the prison

**Employee Responsibilities**
- To behave at all times in a professional manner and to be a good role model to other staff, volunteers, students and our clients;
- To adhere to Jigsaw’spolicies and procedures, including confidentiality, safe working practices, equal opportunities, child protection and health and safety;
- To be pro-active in keeping up to date with good practice and policies and ensuring that these are communicated and adhered to;
- To promote Equality of Opportunity and Diversity through own work;
- To attend relevant internal and external meetings;
- The post-holder is responsible for their own self-development on a continuous basis, which should be regularly reviewed with their line manager through supervision and appraisal.

**Job Type**: Part-time
Part-time hours: 22.5 per week

**Salary**: £14,005.00 per year

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift

COVID-19 considerations:
Covid Compliant

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Leeds, LS12 2TJ: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Experience**:

- working community groups: 1 year (preferred)

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