Family Play Facilitator

Family Play Facilitator

Location: East Riding of Yorkshire

Salary: £22,000 per annum

We are looking for a Connections Visits Whole Family Play Facilitator. This is an exciting new opportunity to join our new Prison - HMP Millsike.

We are The Forward Trust, the social enterprise with charitable status that empowers people to break the often interlinked cycles of crime and addiction to move forward with their lives. For more than 25 years we have been working with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past. We believe that anyone is capable of lasting change. Our services have supported thousands of people to make positive changes and build productive lives with a job, family, friends and a sense of community.

HMP Millsike, the UK’s newest, and first 'green’ prison, is due to open in early 2025, run by Mitie Care and Custody on behalf of the Ministry of Justice. The Forward Trust is a strategic partner to Mitie Care and Custody, providing our Connections Services across the prison and supporting a restorative and rehabilitative culture that enables prisoners to unlock their potential.

What you will be doing?

Millsike will offer a dramatic shift from traditional prison environments. It will be a vibrant, bustling community, teeming with industry, activity and opportunities for personal growth. It will promote change through a restorative and rehabilitative environment and culture, empowering individuals to make self-determined choices and equipping them with the skills and emotional resilience to produce effective and long-lasting change.

Forward Trust’s Connections Team at HMP Millsike will have responsibility for delivery of a core 'Connections’ service including:

• Connections Visits
• Connections Family and Relationship Services
• Connections Health and Wellbeing and Substance Misuse Services

The Prison Visits Play Facilitator role is responsible for providing a safe, supportive, and engaging play environment for children visiting their family member in prison. The primary objective is to mitigate the emotional stress of prison visits, fostering positive interactions between children and their loved ones. This role requires a compassionate individual who can create a warm and inviting atmosphere, and facilitate age-appropriate play, ensuring all activities are inclusive and supportive of the children’s emotional and social needs.

What are we looking for?

As a Connections Visits Whole Family Play Facilitator, you will possess the following skills -

• Experience working with children, particularly in stressful or unusual environment
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with proven ability to work sensitively with diverse group
• Ability to handle sensitive situations /information with discretion and professionalism
• Skilled in communication, presenting, data, written and verbal
• A positive problem-solving approach with the ability to focus on key issues quickly and clearly
• Flexibility to meet the needs of the service as it develops
• The ability to engage effectively with the client group, as applicable
• NVQ Level 2 (childcare)
• Trauma informed care practices

Please note the closing date for this role is 3rd January 2025.

The salary for this role is £22,000.00 Pro Rata

What we offer

• Training and development opportunities
• Flexible working
• Simply Health Cashback Scheme (Optional)
• Season Ticket Loan Scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Crisis Loan Scheme
• Electric Car Scheme
• 3 x Wellbeing Days (pro rata'd for part time employees)
• Access to Blue Light Card
• 25 days (rising to 30 with length of service) Annual Leave plus Bank Holidays
• Contributory Pension Scheme - Employer matched contributions of up to 6% in the first two years’ service and up to 9% thereafter
• Death in Service Payment (2x annual salary)
• Critical Illness Insurance (subject to qualifying criteria)

To Apply

If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for the forward trust, please click apply to be redirected to their website to complete your application.

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.

Please note that previous applicants need not apply.