Visits Centre Assistant
Location: HMP Leyhill
Job Type: Part time, 7 hours per week (weekend working)
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: £23,810 per annum FTE (£4,444.50 per annum pro rata)
Benefits: Cycle to Work Scheme, Life Assurance, Season Ticket Loan, EAP Scheme
As a Visits Centre Assistant you will provide support to families visiting loved ones in the Visitor Centre. Visitor centre services include play and children’s services, and a catering service. You will work as one of the PACT Family team, based primarily in the prison’s visitor centre and visits hall, providing support, advice and guidance to families visiting prisoners, facilitating prison visits and family days and supporting the play service.
About you
* Experience and understanding of working with families in a challenging environment, ideally involving offenders and/or their families.
* Excellent organisational skills and the ability to manage a demanding workload.
* Ability to contribute to planning and development of PACTs family work and knowledge of safeguarding/child protection practice.
* Excellent interpersonal communication skills and ability to work in partnership with a range of agencies.
What PACT offers
Wide range of employee benefits: free confidential advice and counselling service, cycle to work scheme, life assurance, eye care vouchers, generous annual leave and more. Opportunity to attend internal training events and undergo thorough induction supported by a friendly and enthusiastic team.
How to apply
If you feel you meet the requirements, 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, Prison Vetting and an enhanced 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.
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