G4S Care & Rehabilitation Services (CaRS) already successfully manages 5 prisons, one secure training centre and a number of community contracts in England and Wales. The philosophy of our establishments is to rehabilitate offenders and equip them to re-integrate into mainstream society on release. We seek to normalise conditions as far as possible to reflect life in the outside community. Our aim is to create an environment in which our employees and residents feel safe and secure. Our success is underpinned by the way we lead and engage with our people.
We are now looking for a Children, Families and Visits Manager who has experience working in resettlement and working with young people.
This role will have overall responsibility for leading the family services for the next generation of Parc as we build and drive forward the excellent practice that we have delivered for many years. This roles aim to strengthen family ties and reduce re-offending and intergenerational offending by increasing opportunities for families to support sustainable rehabilitation, developing links with local community, family support and advice services. Manage a team, coordinate the Family Interventions, specialised family work, veterans and volunteer remits within Invisible Walls Family Services. Ensuring quality assurance and curriculum delivery to meet the contractual arrangements and targets. Work closely with the Operational, Visitor Centre and Through the Gate mentor teams. Representing the department internally and externally as required.
HMP & YOI Parc has consistently been viewed as a trailblazer in the delivery of family services, and this role will be critical in making ongoing improvements and continuing to ensure that we are at the forefront of good practice. With responsibility for our breadth of family intervention and support services and our approach to visits, this is a great opportunity for a motivated and dedicated individual to take our services to the next level.
Key Responsibilities:
- Work closely with the Children, Families and Relationship Manager in the delivery of HMP & You Parc’s Family and Significant Others Strategy and relevant reducing reoffending objectives.
- Line Management responsibility, this includes management and supervision of staff and managers, including bi-annual development reviews (EDR), managing performance and developing a strong workforce
- Ensure there are effective working relationships between non-operational teams, operational managers, Visits Centre staff and Through the Gate services.
- Support and implement the delivery of key service change requirements identified in mobilisation of the new contract.
- Coordinate family work/visits aimed at building better family relationships for prisoners, their families and significant others.
- Responsible for all referrals and ensuring they are allocated and responded to within a timely manner.
- Develop and implement a co-ordinated package of interventions to be delivered by the Family Intervention Caseworker and coordinators.
- Ensure the 24 hour Helpdesk and specialised visits are kept to a high standard.
- Manage child/public protection integrity for all interventions, liaising with relevant internal and external agencies e.g. Public Protection, OMU, police, social services, probation, etc.
- Coordinate the supervision and delivery of family focused interventions inline with the IW Family Service model as dictated by the Children, Family and Relationship Senior Manager.
- Ensure the recording of relevant data on the T4 database, CMS and other relevant systems for monthly returns (KPI’s/KPT’s)
- Provide overall quality assurance across the family service.
- Coordinate and supervise the implementation and delivery of Case Management on the T4 Family Unit to ensure the support needs and identified goals are structured within an individualised family support plan (FSP)
- Manage and oversee the Veterans Strategy for Main/VPU.
- Manage and oversee the Volunteer provision team to ensure volunteers, student placements and peers are in place to assist the family service and wider estate.
- Prepare reports and briefings on the development of the IW Family Service.
- Assist in the promotion of creating a positive Health & Safety culture across the site leading by example, this includes reporting accidents and near misses in a timely manner & following the applicable safe systems of work for the role.
- G4S is committed to safeguarding and promoting the wellbeing of children and adults at risk and the post holder must support these goals.
- The duties and responsibilities listed within this job description are not exhaustive and the job holder is expected to accept reasonable alterations and additional tasks of a similar level that may be necessary from time to time.
THE IDEAL CANDIDATE:
Essential Skills:
- Educated to degree level or NVQ Level 4 in a related field.
- Strong interpersonal skills.
- Management and supervision of staff.
- Delivery/supervision of family interventions
Desirable Skills:
- Experience of working in a custodial environment with prisoners and their children and families.
- Cross sector partnership working.
- Staff supervision, EDR’s, etc.
If you join us, you can be sure that you’ll find a secure, friendly and professional working environment and be given all the support, training and encouragement you need to build and develop a successful career with us.
HMP Parc encourages applications from Welsh speakers.
For more information on HMP Parc, please visit https://hmpparc.co.uk/
Equality and Diversity is an important part of G4S Care and Rehabilitation Services. We actively encourage applications from all backgrounds and are a fully inclusive employer who aims to support all employees to be their true selves. We are happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments for either the role or during the recruitment process.
G4S Care and Rehabilitation Services is committed to safeguarding and promoting the wellbeing of children and adults at risk and each employee is expected to support these goals.
Please note that these vacancies are subject to a 5 year checkable history and the strict vetting standards set by G4S and the Secretary of State for the Home Office and are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act.
You must be eligible to work in the UK and must have been resident in the UK for a minimum period of 3 years. You will also need to provide full details of your employment and education history for the last 5 years as part of the security screening process for this role.
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