Prison Representative Jobs
Location: Maidstone
Salary: £11,034 (£27,584 FTE)
Hours: 14 hours (2 days per week)
Benefits: Standard Shannon Trust: Employee benefits include a company contribution to pension scheme of up to 5%, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays, life insurance, paid volunteering days, discounts via Reward Gateway and an Employee Assistance Programme.
Do you want to join an organisation committed to addressing low literacy levels amongst people in prison?
Shannon Trust are delighted to be working with His Majesty’s Prison & Probation Service (HMPPS) to provide peer-led learning programmes at HMP Maidstone. Working closely with the prison and their staff, people in prison, Shannon Trust volunteers and mentors, this post will lead the delivery and development of our prison based reading and numeracy programme, maximising opportunities for people in prison to learn to read.
Ideally you will have some experience of prison settings underpinned by the ability to build relationships and personal qualities that include resilience, determination and a problem-solving approach.
This role will be prison-based. Employee benefits include a company contritution to pension scheme of up to 5%, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays, life insurance, paid volunteering days, discounts via Reward Gateway and an Employee Assistance Programme. The biggest benefit though is our culture – our people really want to work for the organisation.
We welcome job applications from people with lived experience of the criminal justice system and do not routinely ask for details of any criminal convictions. These roles do require prison security clearance, so we will need to ask for details of any relevant criminal convictions before an offer of employment is finalised.
Interviews are planned for week commencing 16 September 2024.
Closing date: 09-09-2024
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Size: 21 - 50
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Are you passionate about helping people to turn their lives around? If so, come and join our small, friendly team at Working Chance.
We are an award-winning national charity, the UK's only employment charity solely for women with convictions.
We’re led by our vision of a society where every woman with a conviction has the support and opportunities she needs to flourish. Our mission is to support these women to create independent, purposeful lives through helping them to build careers. We believe no woman should be held back by her past.
Our Employment Advisors help our clients to find work that fits their skills and aspirations and that enables them to build the life they want. You will do this either by advising clients on their own job search and applications, or by supporting them to apply for roles with particular employers we have relationships with.
The ideal candidate will be highly empathetic with fantastic people skills and able to quickly build rapport. You’ll need personal credibility and confidence to liaise with employers about vacancies they need to fill. Excellent literacy and proofreading skills are essential so that you can help clients to produce high quality CVs and supporting statements.
Previous experience of supporting people into employment is a must. Experience of working with people who have faced adversity and complex challenges would be an asset.
You will join a friendly and supportive team who are passionate about what we do. In addition to a competitive salary, we offer benefits including flexibility, generous holiday allowance, time off for your birthday and wellbeing days.
Closing date: 5pm 27th September 2024
Interview date: w/c 7th October 2024
As an organisation passionate about supporting women with criminal convictions into employment, we welcome applicants with lived experience of the criminal justice system. We welcome a broad range of candidates, particularly those who identify as Black, people of colour, and a range of ages as they are underrepresented in the organisation and the sector.
If you believe you would add value to the organisation within this role but don’t meet all the criteria we have laid out in the advert and job description, we would still love to hear from you.
We want you to have every opportunity to demonstrate your skills, ability and potential; let us know if you require any assistance or adjustment so that we can help with making the application process work for you.
Proud to be Organisation of the Year in the Howard League Community Awards 2022, a finalist in the Centre for Social Justice Awards 2022, and shortlisted for Charity of the Year 2019 and 2021 at the Charity Times Awards.
Please apply with your cv and covering letter explaining why you are interested in the role and how you fit the job description.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Come and work with Medical Justice, a small and dynamic team that builds on casework to produce research that is used to challenge systemic failures in healthcare provision in immigration detention. We expose medical mistreatment in detention and strive for lasting change for all detained people through policy work, strategic litigation, media coverage and parliamentary action.
We particularly welcome applications from people with lived experience –
Support from Experts by Experience Employment Network
Medical Justice is a member of the initiative so candidates with lived experience for our jobs can receive its support with reviewing covering letters, CVs, and interview preparation, as well as give encouraging and constructive feedback to applicants during and after the application process, subject to its volunteers’ availability.
If you are an expert by experience (a refugee or a migrant with direct, first-hand experience of issues and challenges of the UK asylum or immigration system), you can ask for an independent and confidential support for your job application from the Experts by Experience Employment Network. Please follow the link in the application pack to request support and they will confirm if they can match you with a mentor to support your application.
- see the Application Pack for more details.
Main duties and responsibilities
1. Gather available information about a detained person whose case has been referred to Medical Justice
2. Assess the detained person’s needs and the relevant Medical Justice resources available that could assist them
3. Raise any immediate concerns about your client appropriately within Medical Justice and beyond
4. Prioritise referrals (in collaboration with the Casework Manager and the rest of the casework team)
5. Agree a plan of action with the Casework Manager to ensure as many resources as appropriate are marshalled to assist the detained person regarding:
a. Collating of existing medical evidence regarding the detained person and generating new medical evidence, including medico-legal reports (MLRs) and professional letters produced as a result of Medical Justice clinicians’ assessments in detention and/or remotely at your request
b. Challenging any inadequate healthcare provision
c. Facilitating access to good legal representation to challenge detention and to make the best use of the medical evidence we provide, and establish any availability of Legal Aid Agency funding for MLRs and interpreters
d. Facilitating access to appropriate support including accommodation and access to healthcare on release from detention
6. Obtain relevant consent from detained clients
7. Gather further required information needed about a detained client, including medical records, files held by the Home Office, and the detained client’s legal documents
8. Carry out various other actions agreed by the Casework Manager to implement the above plan. This may include:
a. Arranging medical visits to detainees
b. Liaising with healthcare providers in the immigration removal centre (IRC)
c. Liaising with detained clients
d. Finding appropriate legal representation for a client
e. Signposting or making referrals to other organisations
9. Provide information to the Office Manager for booking medical visits and interpreters
10. Continually update the case-management system
11. With support from the Casework Manager and Clinical Advisor/clinical reviewers, ensure medical evidence generated is accurate and aligned with instructions from any legal representative and Medical Justice guidance
12. Continually feedback to the staff team any intelligence regarding immigration detention conditions
13. Assist the Casework Manager to provide a monthly report for Trustees on the number of referrals, outcomes and Medical Justice clinicians engaged, noting any areas of concern
14. Collaborate with other staff and partner organisations in activities to secure lasting change including litigation, research, policy work and media work. This could include identification of cases, assisting in getting consent from detained clients, and contributing to briefings and witness statements
15. Where required, attend other meetings and events as agreed with the Casework Manager, including Trustee meetings and events with partner organisations.
16. Assist in other Medical Justice activities, including clinician and interpreter training .
17. Respect and comply with Medical Justice's policies and procedure, including clients’ confidentiality, equality and diversity, health and safety, and vulnerable adults.
General
18. To work flexibly as a member of the team and the organisation and undertake other reasonable duties and responsibilities at the request of the Casework Manager.
19. To assist the smooth running of the organisation, working with other Medical Justice staff, and the Trustees to meets its overall objectives, including participation in periodic performance and training reviews, and contribute to organisational development. Also, attending and assisting with relevant events as appropriate.
20. To promote Medical Justice policies including our anti-discrimination policies.
21. To be self servicing, pro-actively share relevant information and expertise within the organisation and keep all records, statistics and information in accordance with Medical Justice policy and practice.
For more information about Medical Justice, this role, the Person Specification, Guidance notes for completing the application form, and the application form, please download the application pack
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.