Male Specialist Support Workers Jobs in Bristol, England
Contract Type: Permanent
Job Type: Full time, 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday (weekend & evening work may be required occasionally)
Salary: £23,400 per annum
Benefits: Cycle to Work Scheme, Life Assurance, Season Ticket Loan, EAP Scheme
Closing Date: 23-04-2024
Are you passionate about supporting mothers in custody and maintaining vital connections between them and their children?
We are seeking a dedicated and empathetic individual to join our team as a Family Support Co-ordinator for our Visiting Mums Project at Eastwood Park.
Key Responsibilities:
1.Supporting Welsh Mums: Provide comprehensive support to Welsh mothers within Eastwood Park, assisting them in maintaining relationships with their children during their time in custody.
2.Triage and Engagement: Conduct triage assessments for Welsh mothers upon entry into custody to identify their specific needs and engage them in our support services effectively.
3.Collaborative Approach: Work closely with our Visiting Mum community worker to ensure a collaborative and holistic approach to supporting mothers in custody and their children/families within the community.
4.Project Delivery: Successfully deliver on the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) of the Visiting Mums Project, including timely reporting each month to track progress and outcomes.
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.
How to apply:
If you feel that you meet the requirements of this exciting new role please complete an application form by clicking the `apply now` button.
* We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
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. We will also require a certificate of good conduct from the Police Force of the country of residence if you have resided overseas for a period of over 12 months (in the past 10 years while aged 18 or over).
You may also have experience in the following: Family Liaison Officer, Parental Connection Coordinator, Maternal Support Advocate, Family Engagement Specialist, Parental Outreach Coordinator, Custodial Family Liaison Officer, Maternal Support Coordinator, Family Empowerment Facilitator, Parental Support Navigator, etc.
REF-212 833
South Wales, based at either Newport, Cardiff or Swansea Office
Ref FWC-241
Are you a proactive, flexible, and target-driven individual with a proven record of working with male adults in the criminal justice system whether in the community or in prisons? Do you have extensive recent experience of providing specialist money and/or welfare benefit advice?
If so, St Giles Trust is looking for a collaborative Financial Wellbeing Coach to join our team, where you will be responsible for the delivery of Finance, Benefit and Debt services to referrals made by Wales Probation Service.
About St Giles Trust
An ambitious, well-established charity that helps people facing adversity to find jobs, homes, and the right support they need. Central to our ethos is our belief that people with first-hand experience of successfully overcoming issues such as an offending background, homelessness, addictions, and gang involvement, hold the key to positive change in others.
About this key role
As our Financial Wellbeing Coach, you will provide person-centred support to a caseload of service users who will either be serving community sentences or have been released from prison. This will involve undertaking assessment and action planning with individual service users and creating a safe and trusting environment, using trauma-informed practice to successfully facilitate a supportive and constructive relationship with service users.
We will also count on you to deliver a range of interventions to service users which contribute towards the achievement of prescribed outcomes, and to work with service users flexibly, meeting and undertaking interventions in a range of locations across a wide geographical area. Developing and maintaining positive working relationships with external agencies and working towards contractual targets and outcomes within agreed timescales and in line with specified quality standards are also vital aspects of the role.
The contract requires clearance through HMPPS vetting.
What we are looking for
• Experience of engaging successfully with challenging people, e.g., those with complex and multiple needs.
• Proven record of working with partner agencies.
• Evidence of training at specialist level in money and/or welfare benefits advice.
• Higher level certificate in money and/or welfare benefit advice from accreditation.
• The ability to assess clients’ needs and provide tailored, client-led support.
• Able to work sensitively with clients applying trauma informed strategies.
• A full driver’s licence and access to a vehicle is desirable.
• Excellent interpersonal, relationship building and communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Welsh language desirable but not a necessity.
In return, you can expect a competitive salary, generous leave allowance including 30 days annual leave plus all statutory bank holidays and 2 'duvet days', staff pension, flexible working, a mentoring programme, an advice and counselling service, 4x Group Life Insurance, season ticket loan, eyecare scheme and much more.
As an equity and inclusive employer, we welcome all applications, but we would particularly welcome applications from Global Majority People (Black, Asian, Brown, Dual Heritage), those living with a disability, those from a neurodiverse group, or have another protected characteristic. We value the positive impact and diversity that your lived experience can bring to our organisation.
As an organisation that works with children and adults at risk we are committed to safeguarding, protecting and promoting the safety of our clients. Successful applicants must therefore submit an Enhanced Adult Workforce only DBS check.
To apply please visit our website.
Closing date: 28 March 2024. 11:45pm Interviews: 04 April 2024
The Youth Services Manager is a key senior position leading on the design and delivery of Caring in Bristol’s services tailored to 16-25 year olds. The postholder also acts as the safeguarding lead for the organisation.
Our youth services take a person-centred relational approach. Our youth team stand alongside young people, working together to tackle the barriers to stable housing. This role also has the exciting opportunity to shape our innovative new small-scale accommodation provision.
As the Youth Services Manager you will play a key role in developing our work supporting young adults that prevents or stops the development of a homelessness crisis.
There are two key services which this role would oversee:
· “Project Z” - Ongoing one-to-one floating support by specialist youth practitioners for 16-25 year olds, many of whom will be experiencing multiple disadvantage; a key objective is building trusting relationships that can help to facilitate positive change.
· “Z House” - A project launching in Spring 2024; an innovative new model for short term youth accommodation for 18-25 year olds in Bristol, delivered primarily by community volunteers. We are in the final stages of constructing the space and the initial service design, with the aim to pilot the concept for the next 12 months.
Both services incorporate group work, drop-in activities and co-production to ensure we are making them accessible to young people who may not usually participate in more traditional support models.
The role will work closely with our other operational managers to ensure that our volunteer management, data systems and performance monitoring are best practice.
The role will have line management responsibility for project staff including the Senior Youth Practitioner, Shelter Coordinator and some oversight of volunteers.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Lead on the coordination, delivery and development of our youth-focused services.
- Leadership of the youth services staff team, providing line management, pastoral support, supervision and development opportunities.
- Develop effective collaborative networks and partnerships with relevant organisations that support young people in Bristol, promote the broader work of CiB, act as a representative of the charity.
- Work closely with the Head of Operations and Prevention Services Manager to develop a consistent approach and operational resilience, including participating in the on-call support rota for all services.
- Act as the Safeguarding Lead for Caring in Bristol, with the support of the Head of Operations and Deputy Safeguarding Lead, providing organisation-wide support and advice to ensure concerns are captured, acted upon and escalated where necessary.
For the full specification and Skills/Experience required, download the job description or find it on our website.
To apply please fill in the attached application form and send via email to us with the subject line Prevention Services Manager
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.