Intervention worker jobs

Are you starting a career in social care, social work, psychology, or mental health nursing and you want to get experience in a forensic environment? Would you say that you believe everyone deserves a second chance regardless of their past circumstances? Would you like to be part of an organisation that supports, cares and empowers these individuals?

If you have said yes to all the above, then this could be the perfect role for you!

An exciting opportunity is now available for ambitious, caring and highly motivated Engagement Support Workers to work in an one-of-a-kind service supporting people with personality disorders to resettle in the community and lead happy, healthy lives, free from crime.

The Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) Pathway programme is a jointly commissioned initiative (NHSE and HMPPS) that aims to provide a Pathway of Psychologically Informed Services for a challenging Offender Group who are likely to present with personality difficulties and have the potential of being a risk to themselves and others or reoffend in a harmful way.

The OPD Housing and Accommodation Support Services (HASS) have been designed to support the OPD Pathway providing high residential specialist housing and accommodation support. Our 24-hour service offers far more than a roof over people’s heads; it offers a base for a range of 1-1 and group interventions, delivered by our teams and external partners, that equips residents with the skills and confidence to move on safely into independent living.

To be successful in this role, you will have great communication and engagement skills, with the maturity to work within a framework of recovery, building confidence, self-esteem, hope and positive coping skills. You will be someone who shares our values and be committed to achieving great outcomes for our service users.

You will required to work 37.5 hours per week, in a shift pattern including weekends, bank holidays, so you’ll need to be flexible with the hours you are able to work.

Key Responsibilities:

• To be creative in involving the service users in meetings which ensures they remain at the centre of the discussion
• To support service users to achieve their goals, in line with their support plan, including providing support to run house meetings, organise in-house activities with a view to create a positive sense of community. Activities include: gardening, cooking, mindfulness, knitting, housing workshops, movement & drama therapy.
• Provide / arrange for various advice, advocacy and or information to service users in relation to physical health matters, substance misuse welfare benefits, education, employment and training, life skills and any other identified support needs.
• Staff are encouraged to bring their skills and interests in the work and being creative in engaging our residents primarily by way of individual assessments, risk management and support plans inclusive of the agreed needs and goals of the service users
• A big part of what you will be doing is helping people to obtain employment, training and support to maximise levels of benefit entitlement. Simultaneously you will also provide support with respective Move-On plans on to longer term accommodation options.
• Support residents with rent/arrears payments, report maintenance requests and ensures a clean, welcoming environment for all.
• Working within a multi-disciplinary framework, liaise with external professionals, e.g. GP’s, probation officer, care coordinators etc.
• Assist the staff team in managing security and safety, health & safety, maintenance, rent/charges collection, arrears and void control.

What we are looking for:

• Knowledge/experience in mental health and working with vulnerable/challenging individuals or people with substance misuse issues
• Knowledge/experience of Personality Disorder, models of treatment & intervention
• Knowledge/experience in risk assessment and risk management
• Flexibility/Resilience
• Creativity and problem-solving skills
• The ability to work well in a team
• Being able to work with different agencies/organisations and understanding the multi-disciplinary approach
• Understanding and practical application of key legislation regarding social care, housing, criminal justice and mental health

Benefits of working with us:

• Excellent core and on-going training aligned with personal development plan
• Access to employee assistance programme
• 25 days holiday increasing to 26 days after 2 years and increasing 1 day per year up to 30 days annual leave
• Medi-cash which includes the following:
• Discount gym membership
• Routine eye tests, glasses and contact lenses
• Dental treatment via NHS or Private
• Physiotherapy, Head Massage and a range of other therapies
• Life Assurance

If you wish to work with this challenging yet rewarding client group then this could be a perfect opportunity for you!

For more information, please visit our careers page in order to complete our online application form.

All successful applicants will be required to undertake an Enhanced DBS check and provide employment references covering the last 5 years period including one from your most recent employer.

Do you have a genuine passion and felt purpose to help people? Would you say that you believe everyone deserves a second chance regardless of their past circumstances? Would you like to be part of an organisation that supports, cares and empowers these individuals?

If you have said yes to all the above, then this could be the perfect role for you!

We are looking to recruit a Residential Family Support Worker to join our dynamic team at Bridge House, based in Luton, Bedfordshire to provide proactive support to service users and work with the families to gain the valuable skills required to end the cycle of homelessness and enable future independently sustained living.

Bridge House consist of 7 accommodation units and provides a lifeline to:

• Expectant mothers
• Mothers with up to two children aged under 10
• Single women aiming to have guardianship of their children.

About the Role:

As the Residential Family Support Worker, you will provide support in a flexible, individualised approach so that families can progress in a way that suits both parent and child’s needs whilst in a safe and stable environment. To succeed in this role, you must be able to demonstrate your understanding of the housing and social needs of this client group, therefore if you are passionate about improving the lives of people we support, then we want to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for assessing potential residents to understand their desired outcomes, asses compatibility and risks to other existing residents and identify potential risks which might require mitigation and planning for, before offering a place
• Plan and co-ordinate with the residents their individual support and resettlement packages, liaising with agreed agencies and health and care professionals to ensure successful delivery of the plan
• Liaise with referral agencies in regards to multi-disciplinary approaches, either pre-referral or once engaged with the service
• Provide and arrange various external advice, advocacy and information in order for residents not to become dependent on the service
• To assist the Service Manager in managing health & safety, maintenance, rent/charges collection, arrears and void control
• Complete regular building and room checks and support with maintaining the property
• To complete reports (either electronically or written), including residents support plans, notes and other documentation for managers, members of the management board and other agencies
• Constantly ensure that the resident has the tools and confidence to control and choose their own goals and the steps to be taken, ensuring the resident has access to appropriate methodologies and inventions to encourage and support their engagement and progress towards positive move on

Skills Required:

• Appropriate professional qualification: NVQ / Diploma Level 3 in Health & Social Care / Mental Health / Housing or professional equivalent
• Experience of working with individuals who may have mental health issues/ personality disorders/ forensic mental health backgrounds / substance misuse / offenders and whose chaotic lives challenge service provision
• Experience in working with vulnerable children and families in a support capacity and able to demonstrate a knowledge of interventions which can support children and families
• Practical experience of drafting and agreeing support plans and providing appropriate interventions for service user
• Proven evidence and experience of successful reintegration of service users into the community
• Understanding and practical application of key legislation regarding social care, housing and mental health
• Excellent and proven ability to form effective positive and motivational relationships
• Able to influence and negotiate positive outcomes with service users external agencies

Why work for us:

• Excellent core and on-going training aligned with personal development plan
• Access to employee assistance programme
• 25 days holiday increasing to 26 days after 2 years and increasing 1 day per year up to 30 days annual leave
• Medi-cash which includes the following:
• Discount gym membership
• Routine eye tests, glasses and contact lenses
• Dental treatment via NHS or Private
• Physiotherapy, Head Massage and a range of other therapies
• Life Assurance

If you wish to work with this challenging yet rewarding client group then this could be a perfect opportunity for you!

For more information, please visit our careers page in order to complete our online application form.

All successful applicants will be required to undertake an Enhanced DBS check and provide employment references covering the last 5 years period including one from your most recent employer.

As a Project Worker, you will deliver our remote support service, primarily across Nottinghamshire, in close collaboration with local authority staff.

You will provide remote one-to-one support for special guardians and other kinship carers within local authorities who have commissioned Kinship Reach. You will also provide remote one-to-one support to kinship carers, including digital up-skilling and developing and facilitating virtual peer support groups.

This is a part-time, home-based role for two days per week. The role is fixed term until 30 September 2023 with the possibility of extension, dependent on funding.

About Kinship

Kinship is the leading charity in England and Wales for kinship carers – relatives and friends who raise children when their parents aren’t able to. We offer kinship carers expert advice as well as financial, legal, practical and emotional support and understanding from the moment they need it, for as long as they need it. We’re always there to help with the complicated and stressful decisions that so many kinship families have to make, as well as to celebrate the good times.

Working alongside kinship carers and the children they raise, with their voices and views at the fore, we build communities of support and give everything we have to fight for each family and their rights, as well as to raise awareness of kinship care and secure better support for all those playing this critical role.

In return, we offer 30 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays (pro rata) and a pension.

For further details about the role, please refer to the attached job specification.

To apply, please click the Apply button to send us your CV and cover letter.

Closing date: 9am on Tuesday 30 August 2022
Interview date: w/c 7 September 2022

We will be scheduling interviews as and when suitable candidates apply.

Established in 1983, BRISTOL MISSING LINK (incorporating Next Link and Safe Link) is a leading provider of women’s support services in Bristol.

We have rewarding opportunities available for Female Mental Health Crisis Workers to join our teams based in Bristol. You will join us on a permanent or fixed term basis working on a rota system and in return, you will receive a competitive salary between £23,539 - £25,582 (pro rata for part-time staff) and benefits.

We have the following positions available:

1. Mental Health Crisis Worker (Permanent) – 15 hours (North Team; based at Southmead Hospital)
2. Mental Health Crisis Worker (Permanent) – 37.5 hours (North Team; based at Southmead Hospital
3. Mental Health Crisis Worker (Fixed Term Contract until 31st March 2023 with possible extension) – 37.5 hours (South Team; based at Petherton Resource Centre)

In return for joining us, we will offer you:

• Up to 30 days annual leave (depending on length of service)
• 3 extra holidays including International Women’s Day
• Excellent development and training opportunities
• Employer pension contribution (minimum 5% of your gross salary)
• Mindful Employer Plus Scheme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Long Service Awards
• Wellness Awards

About the role:

As our Mental Health Crisis Worker, you will be part of the Crisis Service. This involves working with and alongside organisations within the Bristol Mental Health Partnership. This is a hub and spoke service with a 24 hour hub (providing a full crisis service across the city). You will therefore be required to work on a rota system including regular evenings, nights and weekend working and must be able to drive and have access to an appropriate vehicle.

The role is focused on providing a range of interventions to assist with daily health, social care and wellbeing needs to reduce the crisis, build resilience and improve wellbeing. You will be employed by Missing Link and seconded into our Bristol Mental Health Partnership and will therefore be operationally managed by AWP.

Key duties and responsibilities of our Mental Health Crisis Worker:

• Build trusting and collaborative relationship with the service user
• Work closely with carers, families and children and other services directly involved with service users, carers if appropriate
• Carry out role adhering to Mental Health Bristol Partnership’s policies, procedures, values, code of conduct and current legislation using a Recovery orientated, psychologically informed, equalities based approach
• Co-produce, update, implement and review a crisis plan, relapse prevention and other self-management tools
• Implement the recovery plan and inform any review, working jointly with the Assessment and Recovery Team Recovery Navigator/Care Co-ordinator, in partnership with service users in line with best practice.
• Coordinate support, refer and liaise effectively with all professionals, agencies and other parties involved in service user’s support in order to deliver the crisis support package
• Enable delivery of the crisis and recovery plans and to enable service users to make informed decisions about their mental wellbeing, maximising their independence and providing advocacy role where appropriate
• Provide specialist support to women using the service and advice and guidance to other team members regarding women’s mental health issues
• Promote and facilitate service user involvement and inclusion within Mental Health Bristol and the community in line with Mental Health Bristol Partnership objectives
• Manage, caseload, documentation and time effectively, ensuring up to date, clear and accurate record keeping in line with MHB policies, making best use of supervision, training and staff development
• Collaborate with other team members to maximise service performance, meet targets and Service Level Agreements and promote effective communication and teamwork
• Maintain hope and optimism for the individual with high expectations for recovery. Use lived experience (if appropriate) to positively support the individual’s recovery

This is not an exhaustive list of your duties and outlines the general ways in which it is expected you will meet the overall requirements of this post.

What we are looking for in our ideal Mental Health Crisis Worker:

• Experience working with people with mental health needs, or people with complex and multiple needs (for example, homelessness, alcohol/drug dependency, long term conditions, domestic abuse and sexual violence)
• Experience of support planning and managing risk assessments
• The ability to maintain hope and optimism for the individual with high expectations for recovery
• Manage caseload, documentation and time effectively, ensuring up to date and clear record keeping in line with policies and procedures
• A current, full driving licence and access to an appropriate vehicle is essential

RECONNECT aims to address the health inequalities experienced by those released from prison. The RECONNECT worker supports them to make the transition to community-based services that will provide the health and care support.

The right candidate will provide specialist person centred support to men with substance misuse issues and or mental health issues on release from prison into Hertfordshire. The Hertfordshire RECONNECT service enables service users to access and sustain supportive interventions upon release from prison, whether that be physical or mental. The service will offer, 1:1 support, sign-posting and onward GP/Health and aftercare referrals and support.

We are looking for an enthusiastic individual who will be responsible for processing client referrals and assessing and supporting client needs. The individual will need to be well organised and able to build and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders. You will be required to travel across the county and be flexible to service need. The role itself will be a mixture of WFH and being outreach/community based. There is dedicated office space in Harlow, Essex boarder should anyone prefer to be office based.

What we offer

• Training opportunities and career development
• Opportunity to access potential yearly salary increments subject to appraisal
• Employee Benefits and Reward Scheme
• Benefits including season ticket loan, pension scheme and life assurance
• 25 days (rising to 30 with length of service) Annual Leave plus Bank Holidays
• Access to a 24/7 Employee Assistance programme including telephone and online access

About The Advocacy Project

We help people who are marginalised or vulnerable because of their circumstances make their own choices about their lives. We support them to speak up and help improve important services we all need. We want to make sure people across all age and care groups – including learning disability and mental health – can:

 voice their concerns 

 understand their rights

 make effective choices about what happens in their lives

We do this through advocacy services which support people individually, and user involvement projects that help organisations improve the services they offer.

About Personal Health Budgets

Personal health budgets (PHBs) are a way of personalising care, based around what matters to people and their individual strengths and needs. They give people more choice, control and flexibility over their healthcare, allowing them to develop a package of support tailored to what will help them to be well and stay well. The PHB team support with planning a PHB and process requests so people can access the items or activities that will help them. We are developing our services across adult and children & young people services. Watch our video to find out more.

About the role

This role will be responsible for the day-to-day delivery of a PHB service aimed at supporting children and young people (CYPs) with neurodisabilities, who are out of education and receiving an intervention from Tower Hamlets CAMHS. The post-holder will work alongside clinicians to support children and young people to plan and access their PHB to support their wellbeing goals as well as act as the point of contact for queries and deliver training. You will work closely with the PHB team to identify areas for development for the service. This role will require an enhanced DBS check.

Key responsibilities

 Provide advice, guidance and training to referring CAMHS clinicians around PHBs.

 Be a point of contact for queries about PHBs for CYP in Tower Hamlets. 

 Respond to PHB requests efficiently; organise follow up meetings with clinician and CYP.

 Work with the CYP and clinician to identify the CYP’s wellbeing goals by having a ‘what matters to me’ conversation and plan what is needed to achieve the goals. 

 Have a good understanding of local resources that can be accessed to support wellbeing.

 Work with the CYP to plan their PHB and the steps to accessing their PHB item/ activity.

 Work with finance team to ensure PHBs funds are released quickly and accurately and any risks are identified and managed appropriately.

 Make sure measures are in place for the CYP to access their PHB request. 

 Involve the CYP’s family in the PHB journey where appropriate and respond to queries from CYP and their families. 

 Keep accurate and up to date records of PHBs on the case management system to support the process and evaluation.

 Continually evaluate the service using data, case studies and feedback to demonstrate the impact of the service.

 Make sure the service user voice is at the centre of the service.

 Work according to the Equality Act 2010 and other forms of legislation that combat discrimination and promote equality and diversity.

 Work with the PHB team to develop PHBs within the organisation.

General responsibilities

 Participate in team meetings and training.

 Participate in personal, team and organisational development.

 Keep to our policies, including health & safety, safeguarding and risk regulations.

 Work to our mission, vision, and values.

 Carry out other projects and tasks as needed.

Person specification

We welcome applications from people with transferrable skills and qualities, and people with diverse employment histories and personal backgrounds.

Essential qualities, attributes and experience:

 Experience of working with children and young people with neurodisabilities. 

 Ability to listen and build trust with those you are working with. 

 Support CYP to express their own views and identify what is important to their wellbeing.

 Understanding of personalised care, and non-directive advice and support. 

 Experience of having personalised conversations with the people you work with. 

 Experience with working alongside other stakeholders to offer support. 

 Passionate about supporting people to have their voices heard, to feel in control of decisions about their lives and to have their rights upheld.

 Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; experience of working with a wide variety of people including commissioners, service users and colleagues.

 Ability to work as part of a team and on your own initiative, to plan and prioritise your own workload.

 Commitment to ongoing professional development.

 Good organisational and IT skills including database experience.

 Willingness to promote The Advocacy Project and its services in line with our mission, vision and values.

Desirable knowledge and experience:

 Working with children and young people who are receiving support from CAMHS.

 Understanding of the CAMHS service. 

 Understanding of PHBs and how they can support wellbeing. 

 Experience of using and managing a case management system.

 Experience and understanding of direct payments

 Knowledge of mental health sections and services (adult and children), including current issues in policy and practice.

 Benefits of working for us

We’re committed to providing an empowering, flexible and supportive working environment for all our staff.
Our employee benefits include 30 days annual leave (including up to 3 days between Christmas and New Year), participation in a pension scheme with 6% employer contribution, access to a free confidential counselling service, and an interest-free travel/bike loan.
All our staff are supported to learn and develop in a variety of ways, including a monthly lecture series where we invite sector experts to talk to our staff on topical issues.
We are a Disability Confident and Mindful Employer. 

Assessment and Intervention Worker

Location: Worcester 
Contract Type: Part Time/Full time, Permanent 
Hours: 21 – 37.5 hours considered
Salary: £27,539 PA  (Pro rata) 

 
Role overview
The Purple Leaf team are recruiting an assessment and intervention worker to deliver psychosocial education, support and intervention to children and young people who have or are at risk of exhibiting problematic or harmful sexual behaviour

Working alongside an established team of therapists, advocates and social workers, the successful delegate will be experienced at working within multiagency settings and have demonstrable ability of assessment and delivering interventions.

This opportunity would ideally suit a someone who has worked with vulnerable children and families who have experienced/been impacted by sexual abuse.

This position will be based Herefordshire or Worcestershire with an expectation that the post holder will be able to travel throughout West Mercia to deliver assessments and interventions as required.

If you are interested in applying, please visit the link below for an application pack:
 

WMRSASC benefits:
Salary of £ 27,539 pro rata 
Access to accredited training programmes
Hybrid working 
26 days holiday plus 8 statutory holidays per annum (pro rata to hours worked), increasing to 31 days following five years' continuous service.
5% Employer Pension Contribution
Benenden Health Scheme
Company sick pay (after successfully probationary period)
Regular clinical and case management supervision

   
The closing date for this position is 26th August 2022. Interviews to take place week commencing 15th September 2022.

Ref: 135 279

About us:

PTMWA is a women-led organisation whose vision is to ensure that people, suffering, or at risk of domestic abuse receive appropriate support. We assist recovery by providing safe accommodation, specialist support services and by working in partnership with other agencies. We also run the only museum dedicated to telling the story of women’s fight for the right to vote at our Pankhurst Centre headquarters.

We are a diverse organisation with c27% of our staff coming from BAME and c23% from LGBT communities. We span the generations with c29 of staff being aged 18-24 and c10% aged 55-64. 11% of staff identify as having a disability.

Our staff, volunteers and service users have recently taken time to reflect on who we are and what we do when we are at our best. This reflection showed that we can proudly claim to be: 

Courageous by challenging inequality, stepping forward and making change

Affirming by supporting and inspiring, paying attention to discover what matters

Generous by sharing our skills, creating energetic positive links, and thriving together

Rooted by being secure in our communities, participating and nurturing a sense of belonging

About You:

You will be a pro-active, reliable individual who reflects the values of PTMWA in all that you do. Your experiences, whether in paid or voluntary work, will enable you to fulfil the role requirements but it is your attitude and character that will make you a successful team member.

You will enjoy a challenge and actively participate in delivering and developing services of the highest standard.

About the role:

We have secured funding for a full time Children and Young People (CYP) Therapeutic Intervention Worker (TIW) to offer support to children and their families across our refuge and dispersed property accommodation.  We welcome applications from people seeking part-time (17.5 hours) work as well as full-time (35). All roles are subject to a DBS check and we seek 2 x references, 1 of whom must be your current employer if applicable.

The role will:

•  Provide therapeutic 1-1 support to C&YP.
• Support C&YP to develop safe coping strategies, by exploring and processing how events have impacted on their lived experience.
• Facilitate repair and recovery group work with C&YP, improving their emotional well-being.
• Support C&YP to develop confidence and resilience against future harm.

Facilitate group work for Parents to better understand the impact of DVA on themselves and their children.

Emerge-based Children and Young People (CYP) Therapeutic Intervention Worker (TIW) – 1 Role

You will be skilled in partnership working, with the ability to apply a whole family approach to protect children and families from harm and improve family functioning. The project will assist families to form meaningful links within their communities, forming or re-establishing meaningful relationships and build resilience against future harm.

This role has been assessed and confirmed as open to women only under the Equality Act 2010, schedule 9, part 1

Hours of work: 35 per week, on a rota covering the hours of 09.00 – 20.00

Salary: £24 832 per annum

Duration: Permanent subject to continued funding

Annual Leave: 25 days plus Bank Holidays, pro rata for part-time workers

Domestic Abuse needs to stop. Help us make it happen.

Devon Domestic Abuse Support Service is an exciting and innovative project, delivering a range of domestic abuse services across Devon. Join us at a time of growth and development to support victims and children and help perpetrators change their behaviour.

We are now looking to recruit a full time Assessment and Early Interventions Advisor. The successful applicant will be part of an established and experienced team providing high quality telephone advice, guidance and support to both victims and other professionals via our helpline.

You will work in a fast-paced environment, supporting those experiencing domestic abuse, stalking and harassment. The ideal candidate will be dedicated, passionate and motivated to help change lives for the better. Whilst we love experience, we also value transferable skills and welcome applications from anyone wanting to train in this specialist field.

Staff who work at Splitz gain amazing experience across our full range of services and there are opportunities for career progression and to gain a domestic abuse qualification.

Splitz recognises the importance of the well-being of our staff and all post holders are provided with independent clinical supervision alongside supervision and case management. We offer 25 days annual leave in addition all bank holidays (FTE) and the opportunity for some working from home.

We are proud to be an all-inclusive service, supporting victims regardless of: age, gender, sexuality, or relationship status. We welcome applications from all of our community.

Please refer to the Person Specification for full list of skills required for the role.

Previous applicants need not apply.

POST: Assessment and Early Intervention Advisor

LOCATION: Exeter, with opportunity for hybrid working (home and office)

SALARY: £20,676 per annum

HOURS: 37.5 hrs per week

TENURE: Permanent

CLOSING DATE:                 31st August 2022

REF: DEV22/14

Vetting - You will be required to undergo an enhanced DBS check

Are you passionate about supporting and transforming the lives of people who are experiencing homelessness?

About the role

We are looking for people to join our team in London/North Camden as Support Worker (known internally as a Project Worker). In these vital role you will:

• Work together with clients to identify their personal aims and ambitions and support them towards achieving them.
• Provide practical and personal support to clients in an approachable, caring and person centred way. 
• Work as part of a dedicated team in the accommodation setting to provide a high quality, positive and safe service to clients.
• Keep up to date administrative records relating to client work, housing management and health and safety.
• Work on the weekly shift rota that includes 9am to 5pm shifts as well as some weekends.

What we’re looking for

To succeed in these highly rewarding role you will:

• Have an understanding of the issues faced by homeless or vulnerably housed people – you may have had personal experience of homelessness yourself.
• Have experience of helping vulnerable people to identify personal goals and supporting them through a process of change.
• Have a sound understanding of the support needs of people with low incomes, including rent payments/arrears and professional boundary issues.
• Possess good interpersonal and listening skills, in order to be able to establish an effective working relationship with clients and an eagerness to learn and work with clients in a holistic and person-centred approach.

Above all we are looking for inspirational, committed individuals who will be committed to our Recovery Ethos, and has a genuine desire to support people to transform their lives.

How to apply

Please start your online application form by clicking the ‘Apply Now’ Button on the advert page.

To view the job description and guidance on completing your application form, please click on the ‘document available’ tab at the top of the advert page on our website.

Closing date: 10am on 23rd August 2022

Interview and assessments on: 5th September 2022

We have an exciting new opportunity for a wellbeing professional with a strong track record of providing adult suicide prevention services, to develop a telephone support prevention service. Working with the Just’B’ Helplines Manager, you will deliver ethical and high-quality care through our Hear 2 Help service across the Just’B’ Adult Service and related projects.

You will be responsible for assessing and developing client care, from point of triage through establishing safety plans and the production of care packages for at risk clients. Collaboration will be vital for effective service operation, whether networking with other prevention services and communities, or coordinating amongst NYHC staff and external professionals. With a strong commitment to safeguarding, you will ensure potential concerns are assessed and highlighted, with relevant escalation.

This role requires a calm and perceptive individual, able to assess potentially stressful situations with a clear head to ensure effective care. Committed to professional growth, you will passionately pursue development for both yourself and others with the organisation and beyond.

Have you been recommended to this role by a current employee as part of our recommend a friend scheme? Don’t forget to let us know after clicking apply.

Benefits include: -

• 35 days holiday per year (including Bank Holidays, pro-rata).
• Comprehensive Induction Programme.
• Refer a friend bonus scheme
• Pension Scheme with an employer contribution of 8%
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Access to staff support.
• Free group life assurance.
• Free DBS check.
• Free car parking at Hospice office sites. 

You will be joining an organisation that is driven, caring, and responsive and you will be playing an important role in enabling us to provide our highly valued services to the people of Harrogate, Hambleton, Richmondshire, and District.

At North Yorkshire Hospice Care we believe that children, young people and adults should never experience abuse of any kind. Every member of our organisation has a responsibility to promote the welfare of all who encounter our services. We aim to keep people safe and to operate our services in a way that protects them; to make reporting concerns as easy as possible and respond quickly; to listen to all worries and work in partnership with individuals and agencies. All our staff and volunteers receive annual training on both adults and children/young people’s safeguarding.

We positively encourage applications from all areas of the community, regardless of gender, race, faith, disability, age, or sexual orientation and we encourage applications from users of mental health services. This is part of our commitment to equality and reflecting the diversity of our population. All appointments are subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks being obtained including successful applicants being required to undertake a DBS Check suitable for the role that you will be performing.  Disclosure expenses will be met by the employer.

North Yorkshire Hospice Care is a registered charity in England and Wales (518905) with a family of services operating as Herriot Hospice Homecare, Just ‘B’, Saint Michael’s Hospice, and Talking Spaces. North Yorkshire Hospice Care is a company limited by guarantee, registered in England and Wales (2121179).

As Family Engagement Worker, you will work as one of the Pact Family team, providing family casework support to prisoners, as well as support to the families of prisoners through advice and guidance, facilitating prison visits, and delivering family induction sessions.

About You:

To be successful in this role you will have demonstrable experience and understanding of working with families in a challenging multi-agency environment, ideally involving prisoners and/or their families. You will have the ability to advocate for families dealing with imprisonment, promoting their human rights and ensuring their needs are considered, and views are heard at all levels. You will have the ability to develop referral pathways for families, prisoners and other professionals to access the service. You may have experience of the following: Casework, Key Working, providing advice, guidance and emotional support to male service users.

You will act as a role model for volunteers and an ambassador for PACT, conducting yourself professionally at all time, with high standards of personal integrity and accountability. You need to be solutions-focused, adaptable, flexible, emotionally resilient and capable of managing multiple tasks in high stress environments.

What we offer:

Pact offers a range of benefits including a free advice, information and counselling service, contributory pension, corporate eye care scheme, cycle to work scheme and generous holiday entitlement. You will have the opportunity to attend training events to further develop yourself as a professional training and interventions worker. You will undergo a thorough induction process and be supported by a friendly and enthusiastic team.

Other information:

Pact is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes all applications including those with a criminal conviction (appointment to post is subject to a risk assessment).

This post is subject to a 6-month probationary period, verification of identity and proven right to work in the UK, satisfactory references from previous employers covering a 3-year period, declaration of any unspent criminal convictions (and where appropriate a satisfactory risk assessment), Prison Vetting and a Disclosure and Barring Service check. Please note that being bankrupt or having County Court Judgements may affect your ability to be successfully vetted to work in a prison.

About Us:

Pact (the Prison Advice & Care Trust) is a pioneering national charity that provides caring and life changing services to men and women in prison, to people with convictions on release and in the community, and to their children and families.

Pact’s vision is of a society in which justice is understood as a process of restoration and healing, in which prisons are used sparingly and as places of learning and rehabilitation, and in which the innate dignity and worth of every human being is valued. We work for the common good of Society, taking a public health-based approach. We work at the intersection of criminal justice, child and family welfare, mental health, wellbeing provision and health & social care.

Our volunteers and staff can be found in courts, prisons, probation services, and in communities across England & Wales. We are a diverse, inclusive, modern, and collaborative charity. We build effective partnerships and sustainable solutions based on our well-established understanding of the systems in which we work, and on our historic values and ethos developed through our 120+ years of service delivery.

Location: HMP High Down - Sutton, Surrey
Contract Type: Fixed Term
Hours: Part Time, 22.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday (Regular weekend & evening work)
Salary: £15,000 actual per annum ( £13,200 basic + £1,800 MS)
Benefits: Cycle to Work Scheme. Life Assurance. Season Ticket Loan. EAP Scheme.

Closing Date: 30th August 2022

You may have experience of the following: Support Worker, Charity, Charities, Third Sector, Social Care, Voluntary Sector, Mental Health Worker, Healthcare Assistant, Care Staff, Community Development, Care Worker, Vulnerable People, Social Worker, Rehabilitation, Family Services, Advocacy, Mentor, Mentoring, Not for Profit, NFP, etc

Ref: 135 304

Family Support Worker

This role will deliver relationship support for young men in HMPYOI Isis as part of the innovative Route2Change pilot project , adopting a “relationships first” approach. This comprehensive service will deliver an end to end integrated rehabilitation and resettlement support programme to the young men from first night in custody to up to six months following release from prison.

The primary focus will be on supporting the young men to understand and develop healthy relationships with their family and others, including with those who have no positive family connections. Working closely with the prison and other agencies, the service will be fully integrated into sentence and release planning. The service will be delivered both in custody and in the community with the prisoner and where appropriate their family including through intensive personal support and befriending, visit services, groupwork, and targeted children’s services. Prisoners with either little or no family links will be offered support to either re-establish contact (where appropriate) or other forms of social support.

This post will work alongside colleagues, prisoner Pact Champions and volunteer befrienders to deliver prisoner assessment, the development of Plans, prisoner and family support and befriending, and casework in prison and in the community. The post holder will be required to cover for colleagues and on occasions may be required to deputise for the Senior Practitioner.

Please know that this role is internally known as Routes2Change (R2C) practitioner.

*We encourage applications from all backgrounds. We particularly encourage applications from black, Asian, and other ethnic minority candidates*

What we offer:

Pact offers a range of benefits including a free advice, information and counselling service, contributory pension, corporate eye care scheme, cycle to work scheme and generous holiday entitlement. You will have the opportunity to attend training events to further develop yourself as a professional training and interventions worker. You will undergo a thorough induction process and be supported by a friendly and enthusiastic team.

Other information:

Pact is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes all applications including those with a criminal conviction (appointment to post is subject to a risk assessment) and BAME background.

This post is subject to a 6-month probationary period, verification of identity and proven right to work in the UK, satisfactory references from previous employers covering a 3-year period, declaration of any unspent criminal convictions (and where appropriate a satisfactory risk assessment), Prison Vetting and a Disclosure and Barring Service check. Please note that being bankrupt or having County Court Judgements may affect your ability to be successfully vetted to work in a prison.

About Us:

Pact (the Prison Advice & Care Trust) is a pioneering national charity that provides caring and life changing services to men and women in prison, to people with convictions on release and in the community, and to their children and families.

Pact’s vision is of a society in which justice is understood as a process of restoration and healing, in which prisons are used sparingly and as places of learning and rehabilitation, and in which the innate dignity and worth of every human being is valued. We work for the common good of Society, taking a public health-based approach. We work at the intersection of criminal justice, child and family welfare, mental health, wellbeing provision and health & social care.

Our volunteers and staff can be found in courts, prisons, probation services, and in communities across England & Wales. We are a diverse, inclusive, modern, and collaborative charity. We build effective partnerships and sustainable solutions based on our well-established understanding of the systems in which we work, and on our historic values and ethos developed through our 120+ years of service delivery.

Location: HMP Isis - London
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Part Time, 18.75 hours per week, Monday to Friday (weekend & evening work may be required occasionally)
Salary: £13,500 actual per annum (£12,000 Basic + £1,500 Market Supplement)

Closing date: 18th August 2022

You may have experience of the following: Support Worker, Charity, Charities, Third Sector, Social Care, Voluntary Sector, Mental Health Worker, Healthcare Assistant, Care Staff, Community Development, Care Worker, Vulnerable People, Social Worker, Rehabilitation, Family Services, Case Management, Rehabilitation, Family Services, Support Work, Criminal Justice System, Social Work, Advocacy, Mentor, Mentoring, etc.

Ref: 134 782

Location: Coram’s Fields, Kings Cross/Bloomsbury

Salary: £30,000 per annum

Benefits: Defined contribution pension scheme, Cycle to Work Scheme, Empoyee Assistance Programme

Hours: Full-time, 35 hours per week (includes evenings and some weekends)

The Senior Youth Worker plays a key role in both the leadership and delivery of our Youth Programme for 11 – 19-year-olds at Coram’s Fields. In addition to leading on session delivery, our Senior Youth Worker also holds a caseload of young men at-risk of school exclusion and/or offending. The post-holder forms part of a team providing both individual and group interventions and will work closely with the Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust in the course of their work with young people

For 85 years, Coram’s Fields has provided pioneering services for young people from birth through to early adulthood, today these services continue to provide invaluable support to the local community. Our Youth Programme supports young people aged 9 to 19, providing a safe space with a wide range of engaging activities, whilst also ensuring critical development opportunities for all young people, both in a practical context and in terms of their wider personal and social development.

Over the last ten years, we’ve established ourselves as one of the leading providers of children and young people’s activities in Camden, engaging over 350+ young people per year through our Youth Centre. We pride ourselves on working with those in most need of support and have excellent relationships with local schools and statutory services.

For the past three years we have been the lead charity partner on a partnership project with Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust and London Borough of Camden, working with young men at risk of violent crime and showing signs of poor mental health. A fundamental part of this role will include working alongside Clinical Psychologists and Mental Health Workers to grow our targeted offer for young men and increase the reach and impact of this project, that sits alongside of our generic youth activities. 

Fundamental to your success in the role will be an unrivalled commitment to the lives of children and young people, supported by an in depth understanding of the multiple challenges that they face, and in particular, the challenges facing young men at risk of school exclusion and/or offending. Even more crucial, will be your ability to turn this commitment and understanding into high impact services that produce tangible outcomes for those young people that we support.

You’ll be an inspirational leader, bringing a creative flair to your work with young people, harnessing the skills of those around you to deliver a truly exceptional offer.

How to apply

If you are interested in contributing to the work of this pioneering charity, please read the job description and person specification thoroughly and complete the application form found here or on our website. Completed application forms should be returned to us by email or post by 5pm on Monday 5th September

Shortlisted applicants will be contacted within seven days of the closing date, if you have not heard from us within two weeks, please assume your application has been unsuccessful. 

Coram’s Fields is committed to equality and diversity and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.

Coram’s Fields is committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of all children and young people. All those applying for a role with the charity, are subject to robust safeguarding checks and will need to demonstrate clearly, their commitment to safeguarding. All appointments are subject to a satisfactory enhanced DBS check and all post holders are required to register with the DBS update service.