Family Worker

4 days ago


Shaftesbury, 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.

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 Guys Marsh - Southwest 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**:
**About the role**:

- Communicate with family member on the progress of a service user and provide information on the recovery process
- Promote family and carer involvement, providing advice and information to staff, service users, families, and carers via leaflets and verbally via 1:1 session, group-work or over the telephone or video calls
- Promote the services within the prison and the community, including information on the services available and referral routes
- Provide family work to prisoners engaged in substance misuse recovery services and their families. This will be a mix of practical support and advice and structured family work designed to support families during custodial periods and help them prepare for return of prisoner
- To develop links with community services and signpost and refer appropriately
- Liaise with and attend the prison visitor centre to engage family in services

**About you**:

- Considerable experience of working directly with families and carers in a field such as prison, social work, drug and alcohol recovery, probation, health, education, youth, and community
- Knowledge and experience of working in a multi-disciplinary environment
- Sound working knowledge of Child Protection
- Sound working knowledge of domestic abuse issues
- Ability to maintain a practical, positive, and considered approach when dealing with challenging behaviour
- Self-motivated and competent at organising own workload with a flexible attitude

**What we will give to you**:

- 25 days holiday (+ bank holidays) rising by 1 day for each years’ service
- Paid ‘Wellness’ hour each week along with a ‘Wellness’ hub and Employee Assist Programme
- Contributory pension scheme
- A great selection of benefits incl. discounts for shopping, cinema, holidays, etc.
- A friendly and supportive team
- Training, career development & progression opportunities

**_
Please read attached Job Description for a more detailed outline of responsibilities and Person Specification_**

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


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