Family Pathways Coordinator

Job Introduction

We have an exciting new role as a Family Pathways Coordinator available to join the the team at HMP Northumberland. As the Family Pathways Coordinator you will oversee and grow the adult safeguarding work for the most vulnerable residents within the establishment, taking responsibility for liaising with local safeguarding representatives within adult social care and other services both mandatory and voluntary to enable continuity of risk management and safeguarding. 

If you are looking a for a new role that will allow you to develop yourself whilst also making a huge impact of rehabilitating offenders, this may be the job for you!!!

HMP Northumberland offers a variety of initiatives and programmes to help residents engage within the prison’s rehabilitative culture. This includes various educational and vocational qualifications, as well as a variety of opportunities for residents to learn new skills within our workshops and industries departments. We have textile, engineering and electrical workshops and can offer prisoners experience in horticulture, market gardens, cleaning, waste management and laundry services on site.

As a working prison, we work towards the resettlement of residents upon their release into the community and their integration into society through the skills acquired while in our care. We are committed to supporting people to change their lives for the better and lead law-abiding lives.

For more information on Sodexo Careers please visit Sodexo Careers and Careers in Justice

Role Responsibility

• Complete an annual review of the family pathway work, demonstrating the current climate and, in conjunction with other stakeholder, setting targets for the following year to satisfy the needs of the shadow measure and where practicable surpassing it.  

• Scheduling visitor and resident surveys gathering information on the needs of our residents and their families 

• Creating processes to best link residents to the interventions on offer including those outside the establishment including video link to family court. 

• Managing application about family interventions from both visitors and residents.  

• Increasing awareness of current and future staffing, in particular key workers, to the various strands of support available by way of full staff meetings and huddles.  

• Working alongside the other family workers to ensure that resident’s needs are met with regards encouraging contact or support during legal processes involving the family.  

• Assisting with the safeguarding of visitors, raising concerns with social services where required.  

• Form links with safer custody/healthcare/mental health/CRC to identify those residents who are most vulnerable and sign post relevant agencies internally and externally to support those through their sentence and then ‘Through the Gate’ 

Please see attached job description for further information regarding the role requirements.

Package Description

£24,500 - £26,600 depending on experience

12 months fixed term 

We also offer Sodexo Discounts site promoting discounted mobile phone tariffs, savings across restaurant chains and days out, where you and your family can save money on everything from your weekly food shop to the latest cinema blockbuster and much more.

Post holders will be subjected to an advanced DBS check, a prison security check (level 2) prior to being employed.

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs around 30,000 people, and partners with clients in many sectors across business and industry; schools and universities; sports and leisure; energy and resources; government and agencies; healthcare; justice and defence.

Sodexo’s connected; people-centric approach brings together a diverse range of expertise. The breadth of services it offers ranges from food and hospitality; cleaning; reception; concierge (Circles); security; property management and technical services through to data driven workplace strategy and design (Wx); employee engagement and recognition services (Sodexo Engage) and personal home services through Prestige Nursing + Care and the Good Care Group.

Sodexo is committed to being an inclusive employer; we welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities.

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations.

We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to  support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process

Sodexo and our clients are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults within a regulated activity. Certain roles will require applicants to undergo screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and/ or Disclosure Scotland.

Please note all roles within Sodexo Justice are subject to security and recruitment checks which may include a Social Media Check. You will also be asked to provide 5 years’ worth of references and request employment history details from the HMRC.