5th January 2015

Dear Applicant,

Thank you for your enquiry about the post of Parenting and Family Resettlement Worker at the Bradford Together Women Project.

Please find enclosed the role profile, supporting information and an application form.

The closing date for applications is Friday 16th Jan 2015. We will write to you shortly after the closing date to inform you of the outcome of your application.

Please email your application to and ensure that you include the reference number for this vacancy – TWB07

If you need to post the application form please send to:

Nicola Fearnley-Hill, TWP Sheffield, 106 Arundel Lane, Sheffield, S1 4RF

If you would like further information on the role please contact Nicola Fearnley Hill on 0114 2758282 or by

Please note this post exempt under section 7 (2) (e) and (f) of The Sex Discrimination Act 1975 and therefore open to female applicants only. The successful applicant will be subject to an enhanced CRB check.

Yours sincerely,

Nicola Fearnley – Hill

Centre Manager

Role Profile
Title / Parenting and Family Resettlement Worker
Team/Area / Bradford Delivery Centre
Grade / Scale points 22 – 28 (£19,622 - £23,708), per annum, pro rata
Hours / 18.5
Leave / 30 days (plus public holidays) per annum, pro rata
Report to / Bradford Centre Manager
Role summary
TWP is a registered charity providing services to vulnerable women across Yorkshire and Humberside with centres in 4 of the main cities including outreach services in Keighley and New Hall Prison.
Our Key Workers engage with and provide intensive support to women; offering one-to-one and group work support, guidance, information and signposting, and therefore contributing to a reduction in offending. The aim being to raise aspirations, build confidence and self esteem, as well as providing access routes into participation, education, training and employment, housing, personal development amongst others.
The Parenting and Family ResettlementWorker will join a team which provides a range of services but will focus on supporting women from within New Hall prisonboth pre and post release; offering needs-led, emotional and practical support around parenting, family and relationships.
Our core working hours are Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm; however we offer flexibility around working patterns. On occasion there may be possible evening and weekend work.
Key accountabilities
  • Responsible for a caseload of clients to whom you will provide high quality family focused support via the following:
  • Receiving and processing referrals in line with current practice guidelines.
  • Assessing the needs of women in custody and their dependents, including risk assessment and review those assessments at regular intervals in order to make sure that they remain accurate and up to date.
  • Building effective relationships with women and their children; to encourage them to identify and respond to their needs, interests and personal development.
  • Provide guidance and support to women and their children on a range of issues (as identified in support plan) includingparenting skills, healthy eating, child development and relationships on a one to one basis and via group activities both within the prison setting and TWP community centre.
  • Work closely with TWP community centres and partner agencies to ensure smooth integration into the community and transition of support package upon release
  • Work with partner agencies and the local authority to achieve improved outcomes for families.
  • Providing on site crèche provision to enable mothers to access services within the centre.
  • Encouraging feedback from women and children using the service in order to promote quality assurance.
  • Signposting women and children to other services which cannot be provided in house and to support them in accessing those services.
  • Attend, as required, a range of multi-agency meetings and participate in, and actively contribute to, the development and delivery of multi-agency plans.
  • Comply with TWP’s procedures for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and vulnerable adults.
  • Ensure all necessary records are properly maintained in line with policies on client files, finance, and administration.
  • Develop and maintain strong relationships with partners and stakeholders including: Local Authorities, Social Care,children and family services, prison service, Jobcentre plus, DWP, Drug agencies, Health agencies, education and training providers, and other voluntary sector providers to maximise services to individuals.
  • Network with relevant individuals, agencies and community resources.
  • Contribute to measuring and monitoring systems as required.
  • Manage and update own skills base to ensure quality service delivery and personal development

Essential Requirements / Desirable Requirements
  • Experience of the delivery of services for women
  • Knowledge and understanding of the issues faced by women offenders and those at risk of offending.
  • Experience of working with people in a support role
  • Experience of working with offenders
  • An understanding of the particular problems faced by women offenders with dependants
  • Experience of running training sessions and workshops
  • Awareness of child protection issues
  • Experience of case management and recording
  • Experience of building positive partnerships with other agencies
  • Strong IT skills (PC literate and competent in using MS Office)
  • GCSE (or equivalent) in Maths & English - Grade C or above
  • Satisfactory Criminal Records Bureau Check
/
  • Relevant NVQ or equivalent at Level 3 or 4
  • Experience & competence in report writing
  • Knowledge of the prison service

Competency Framework
Client focus / Service Provision
  • Commitment and enthusiasm for working with our client group
  • Empathy with client group
  • Manages caseload and delivers support as per the requirements of the service contract and the internal quality audit framework requirements
Recording & monitoring
  • Maintain case files and administrative/monitoring systems effectively

Interpersonal
Skills / Working with others:
  • Builds and maintains effective working relationships, with clients and stakeholders; within the organisation and external to it
  • Manage and ensure that clear professional and emotional boundaries are established
  • Demonstrates a keen understanding of the ability to adapt one’s approach when working with different groups (e.g. clients, partner agencies, stakeholders and colleagues)
Communication
  • Presents spoken and written information clearly and appropriately and to a high standard
Diversity
  • Builds trust and demonstrates respect for others, showing an awareness of the impact on own behaviour on others
  • Treats everyone fairly and consistently

Personal effectiveness / Risk management
  • Works in line with policy and procedure
  • Applies and promotes risk management
  • Aware of the need for confidentiality in dealing with information; of when confidentiality should be preserved and of the circumstances when it is right to reveal confidential information and to whom to is right to do so
Approach to work
  • Willing to learn and develop
  • Plans, organises and implements work, on own initiative with minimum direct supervision
  • Flexible and creative approach at work; able to adapt to the changing needs of the program
  • Ability to manage time, prioritise and meet deadlines
  • Organised approach, with keen admin skills and attention to detail
  • Makes clear decisions and deal positively with challenges

The post holder is expected to work within policies and procedures of Together Women and be committed to its ethos and values. This includes promoting and demonstrating the principles of equal opportunity (including encouraging diversity and tackling discrimination) and sensitivity to the environment.
Application Form
Vacancy (Job Title): / Parenting and Family Resettlement Worker / Ref No: TWB07
(Please complete using a black pen/ink)
1) Personal Details
Mr/Mrs/Miss/Ms/Other:
Name: / Known as: / Any previous names:
Address:
Postcode:
Home Telephone: / Mobile:
Work Telephone: / May we telephone you at work? Y/N
Email Address:
Do you hold a full valid driving licence? / YES / NO
Do you have a vehicle available for work? / YES / NO
2) Current or Last Employment
Name of present or last employer: / Post Held:
Address: / Salary: / Notice Required:
Postcode: / Telephone:
Date you began employment: / Date you left:
Reason for leaving/wanting to leave:
3) Education/Qualifications & training relevant to post
Dates / Qualification/Course
4) Employment History (for the past ten years or since full time education)
Date started
and left / Employer and type of organisation / Position held, main duties and reason for leaving
5) Convictions
Please state any convictions you have had for criminal offences. Most of our posts are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act. If the post you are applying for is not exempt, this will be stated in the covering letter and you need only declare unspent convictions. If none state “none”. If necessary attach a separate sheet giving details of dates, offences and sentences, place in separate envelope marked Private and Confidential. All exempt post will be subject to criminal record checks via the criminal records bureau. Having a criminal record will not necessarily bar you form working with Together Women.
6) References
Please give the names and addresses, one of which should be your present or most recent employer. State in what capacity you are known to each referee. Where you have been in post with your current or last employer (if currently not working) for less than 12 months, we will automatically take up references from your last two employers. Please provide their details.
Name:
Address:
Postcode:
Email:
May we contact them prior to interview? YES / NO / Name:
Address:
Postcode:
Email:
May we contact them prior to interview? YES / NO
7) Role Requirements – part 1
With reference to the role profile, please outline how your skills and experience enable you to meet the key accountabilities for this role. Use additional sheets if required. Please limit the additional sheets to 1 sheets of A4.
7) Role Requirements – part 2
With reference to the role profile, please describe how you meet each of the essential requirements and comment on the desirable items if you wish. Please also outline how you meet the competencies required. Use additional sheets if required. Please limit additional sheets to 1 sheets of A4.
8) Declarations
Are you related to or a partner of a Together Women customer, worker or Board member?
YES / NO
(If yes give brief details on a separate sheet)
To the best of my knowledge there is no reason in respect of my physical or mental health why I would not be able to carry out fully the tasks described for this post. I confirm that the information I have given on this form is correct and complete and that I understand misleading statements may be sufficient grounds for dismissal.
Signed: ______Date: ______
Please return the completed form to the address/ email stated in the covering letter by the date specified.

Equal Opportunities

This form will be detached from your application form upon receipt and the selection panel will not have access to the information during the Short listing or interviews.

Together Women provides support for single people regardless of their background and therefore intends to ensure equality of opportunity in our recruitment process. People seeking employment will not be refused on the grounds of gender, ethnic origin, colour, sexuality, disability, religion, appearance or HIV status.

To ensure that this policy is effective, we monitor our Job Applicants according to the categories below. Completion of this form is voluntary, but it does help us provide a better service if this information is given. Thank you.

THE INFORMATION YOU GIVE ON THIS FORM WILL BE CONFIDENTIAL TO TOGETHER WOMEN AND USED FOR MONITORING PURPOSES ONLY.

______

Name:Post applied for:

I define my gender as:

FEMALE

MALE

I define my ethnic origin as:

WHITEMIXED

BRITISHWHITEANDBLACK CARIBBEAN

IRISHWHITE AND BLACK AFRICAN

OTHER (please give details)WHITE AND ASIAN

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ASIAN AND ASIAN BRITISHBLACK

INDIAN AFRICAN

PAKISTANICARIBBEAN

BANGLADESHIOTHER (please give details

KASHMIRI

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CHINESE OR OTHER ETHNIC GROUPS

CHINESE

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I define my sexuality as:

LESBIAN/GAY

BISEXUAL

HETEROSEXUAL

Do you define yourself as having a disability?

YES

NO

If yes, please specify: ______

Age:

20 - 30

31 - 40

41 - 50

51+

Where did you see the advertisement? ______DIVA website ______

Guidance Notes on Completing this Application Form

If you would like this application form to be supplied in large print, Braille or disc format, please telephone the person on the covering letter who will arrange this.

For any post in Together Women, the application form plays an essential part in choosing the right person for a job. It is only the information contained in your application form that will decide whether or not you are shortlisted for an interview.

The following will help you complete the form:

  • Think about the job you are applying for and exactly what it involves.
  • Read through the application form so that you know exactly what information is required.
  • Read through the Job Description, Person Specification and (where povided) the project profile so that you know exactly what the job is and the skills and abilities you require to do the job.
  • Make a rough list of all your skills and experiences. Choose those you think are relevant to the job.
  • No assumption will be made about your skills and experience so it is essential that you tell us how you meet the criteria - e.g. if you are a secretary tell us what is involved, do not assume the title "secretary" explains everything.
  • Complete the Application Form legibly, ensuring you cover all the essential criteria from the Person Specification. If you wish, add any evidence of how you meet the desirable criteria. If there is insufficient space, you may like to photocopy page 3.
  • Check you have signed the declaration at the end of the application form.
  • Make sure you know the closing date and return the form in plenty of time.
  • Ensure that you have paid the correct postage. We will not be responsible for collecting any under paid correspondence from the sorting office.

Word Processing

We will be happy to accept your own version of the form provided it covers all of the questions and is signed. CV’s are not accepted.

What happens next?

  • Your completed application form will be used to decide whether or not you are selected for an interview. If you are shortlisted, you will hear within 15 days of the closing date.
  • The interview panel is normally made up of 3 people who will ask pre-determined questions based on the person specification. The questions are intended to allow you to expand on your application and to show the panel how well you meet the requirements of the post. You will have the opportunity to ask questions about the job, conditions of service or anything else about the orrganisation. The panel has to keep a record of their assessment of each candidate so that the reasons for their decision are clear, consistent and justifiable.

Complaints

If you feel you have been treated unfairly, please write to us and we will investigate.

We are trying very hard to ensure that every stage in our recruitment process is fair and properly thought out. We have a duty to ensure that everyone is treated without discrimination. We hope that you have been treated fairly and helpful even if you are not appointed. If you wish to discuss why you have been unsuccessful, please contact the relevant manager who will be pleased to talk to you.

Equal Opportunities

Enclosed with this form you will find our equal opportunities statement and overleaf, a voluntary monitoring form to send in with your application form. This is not made available to the interview panel and is used to monitor whether we are reaching all sections of the community and to check that our recruitment process operates fairly.