Personal Wellbeing Advisor

Job Description:

A great opportunity has arisen for an experienced professional to join Pact as we start delivering a new community-based service supporting people with convictions to improve their personal wellbeing and strengthen family relationships. The Post location will be Coventry & Leamington Spa, with occasional outreach to Stratford-upon-Avon and Rugby.

One-to-one support will be core to the service including building trust and undertaking activities and interventions that meet the needs of each individual. You will also deliver group sessions and workshops to support the development of skills and strategies such as communication, resilience, negotiation and assertiveness skills; confident and responsible parenting behaviours and positive coping strategies. You will be responsible for working towards service delivery targets and providing information to evidence outcomes achieved. Working with other professionals in partnership delivery will also be key.

Key Responsibilities:

• Deliver one-to-one and group-based interventions focused on family and relationship wellbeing.
• Build trusted relationships with service users to enable meaningful and lasting change.
• Help individuals improve communication, resilience, and emotional regulation within relationships.
• Encourage responsible parenting and the development of healthy family dynamics.
• Support service users navigating temporary or permanent relationship breakdowns.
• Work in close partnership with Probation Practitioners, other wellbeing professionals, and community services to support rehabilitation and reduce reoffending.
• Maintain accurate records and contribute to monitoring and evaluation processes.

What We're Looking For:

• Experience in providing wellbeing, relationship, or social support services.
• Ability to deliver both one-to-one and group interventions effectively.
• Strong understanding of the challenges faced by individuals in the criminal justice system.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team.
• Commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of service users.

About you:

As a key member of our values-led charity, you will be motivated to support people to turn their lives around. With a background in supporting people who have multiple and complex needs you will have the skills to engage sensitively with people about an area of their lives that is often the most important, their family. Ideally with experience of family work, you will understand the impact of criminality of family relationships. You will also have excellent interpersonal skills to equip you to build important relationships with partner agencies.

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 of 30 days per year plus bank holidays. You will have the opportunity to attend training events to further develop yourself as a professional. You will undergo a thorough induction process and be supported by a friendly and enthusiastic team.

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 5-year period, declaration of any unspent criminal convictions (and where appropriate a satisfactory risk assessment), and an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check.

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. We work for the common good of Society, taking a public health-based approach. We work at the intersection of criminal justice, child and family welfare, mental health, wellbeing provision and health & social care.

As an inclusive employer, we welcome requests for job adverts and descriptions in accessible formats (for e.g. larger text) for candidates with disabilities, including those with neurodiversity.

Location Coventry & Leamington Spa
Job Type: Full time, Fixed term contract
Salary: £27,310.50 per annum FTE
Benefits: Generous Holiday allowance, Season Ticket loan, Cycle to work scheme, Charity worker discounts, Enhanced maternity package, Wellness, inclusion, and diversity groups, EAP scheme, Life assurance.

You may also have experience in the following: Wellbeing Practitioner, Family Support Worker, Rehabilitation Support Worker, Personal Development Coach, Offender Rehabilitation Worker, Community Support Practitioner, Resettlement Worker, Criminal Justice Support Worker, Emotional Wellbeing Coach, Relationship Support Practitioner, Family Intervention Worker, Community Reintegration Worker, Support & Engagement Officer, Behaviour Change Practitioner.

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