Paid Opportunity:
Listen to Families Team Member
Summary
A Listen to Families Team Member role is a flexible, paid position designed for people who currently have a loved one in a London prison, or whose loved one has previously been inside a London prison within the last 12 months.
Pact is working with the NHS in London to give families and carers more of a say in how prison healthcare is developed and delivered. By sharing your experiences and discussing how to improve things, you’ll play an important part in making sure families and carers get their voices heard.
Playing your part in the team takes between 4 and 8 hours a month. Team Members usually combine their work for Pact with other employment or caring responsibilities, and we design the roles to be as flexible as possible.
About you
1. You will know what it’s like to have a loved one in a London prison. Someone you are close to will either be serving time now, or have previously been inside a prison in London (HMP Brixton, HMP Belmarsh, HMP/YOI Feltham, HMP/YOI Isis, HMP Pentonville, HMP Thameside, HMP Wandsworth and HMP Wormwood Scrubs) or the Southeast (HMP Aylesbury, HMP Elmley, HMP Downview and HMP Huntercombe) within the last 12 months.
2. The person imprisoned will be someone you care about and are close to. For example, they might be your partner, son, husband, brother, nephew, uncle, cousin, grandfather, step-brother, step-father, family member or a friend.
3. You will have experience of supporting your loved one with their healthcare needs in prison. They might have mental health, physical health, dentistry or eye-care needs – or have several issues at the same time.
4. You’ll be keen to help the NHS improve the healthcare in prisons by sharing your experiences.
Responsibilities
5. You’ll share your experiences directly with NHS London and the organisations who provide healthcare in London prisons.
6. You’ll give feedback on key questions that have come up through the Listen to Families programme’s work or that come from the NHS.
7. You’ll join focus groups about prison healthcare and feed into discussions about how it could improve.
8. You’ll stay in the loop remotely via our chat group and emails.
9. You will attend a monthly video call with the whole Listen to Families team and contribute to discussions.
10. You will come along to coffee mornings for people who have a loved one in prison and help everyone feel safe, comfortable and welcome.
11. You’ll contribute to specific projects, working with others to develop recommendations about what needs to change.
12. Working as part of a team, you’ll support others in the Listen to Families network as we work to improve prison healthcare together.
13. You’ll learn about how healthcare happens in prisons – who does what and how different parts of the system work.
14. Other tasks and opportunities may be available as the programme develops.
Expectations
15. You will receive full training and support from Pact.
16. You’ll follow Pact’s policies and procedures, including safeguarding, data protection and confidentiality.
If you’d like to have an informal chat about the role, we’d love to hear from you. Please email .
We have a limited number of spaces on the team and positions will be offered to suitable candidates on a rolling basis. Whilst there is no deadline to apply, your application is more likely to succeed if we receive it sooner rather than later.