Child and Family Support Worker

2 days ago


Shanklin South, United Kingdom Barnardo's Full time

**Are you passionate about offering children and families a positive experience when visiting their loved ones in prison?**

**Are you able to bring your skills and experience to help us offer a welcoming and supportive environment where children feel safe to play and interact with their family?**

Barnardo's is seeking to recruit an experienced, caring and committed Child and Family Support Worker to join our welcoming **Prison Visits and Family Support **team.

The Child and Family Support Worker is based at HMP Isle of Wight and works on a Friday, Saturday and Monday from 11.30am to 4.30pm. The Child and Family Support Worker plays a central role in ensuring that our visiting centre meets our aims of:

- Supporting everyone visiting a loved one in prison and keeping children and families at the heart of what we do
- Providing a comfortable and welcoming environment for families to wait before going through the gate into the visiting halls
- Getting to know families and offering assistance and support
- Offering play activities for children
- Providing help and guidance so families understand the process of visiting and can make the most of their time with their loved ones
- Recognising that visiting a loved one in prison can be both difficult and upsetting and ensuring that we offer a caring and non-judgemental service at all times.

**Within this exciting and important role, **you will**:

- Provide support to children, families and significant others who visit the prison.
- Offer support and information in the visit centre and in the visit halls at Albany and Parkhurst and encourage positive engagement with families
- Collect monitoring data required for the service.
- Completing required recoding of information onto the Barnardo's system
- Support the child and family support workers and volunteers to deliver enrichment activities in the visit halls.
- Liaise with designated staff within the prison and within Barnardo's to help resolve any difficulties that may arise during sessions.

You must feel comfortable working in a secure environment and understand the needs and experiences of children and families using the Visiting Centre.

**Working hours and salary**:This role is offered at 15 hours per week to be worked on Friday, Saturdays and Monday from 11:30am to 4:30pm, though flexibility may be required to support the service
- Flexibility

Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
- About Barnardo's
- At Barnardo's we believe in children - no matter who they are, what they have done or what they have been through. Please read about our basis and values following the link below. You will be asked questions relating to them as part of the recruitment process for this role.



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