CAMEO Enrichment Worker

The Enrichment workers will be part of providing support to all women engaging with the CAMEO service within HMP Foston Hall. As part of this team, you will deliver exciting, engaging, and innovative social, recreational and leisure activities to women experiencing difficulties coping in custody, and who are in need of enhanced support.

You will be expected to facilitate and participate in planned group activities with women, in addition to this you will be required to motivate and negotiate with service users who may be unwilling to participate in an activity and to promote the benefits and outcomes that participation could generate, i.e. social interaction, well-being and independence.

Anawim is an award-winning women's centre based in Balsall Heath, originally founded in 1986 to support the needs of sex workers in the area. It is now a thriving one stop shop for women with multiple and complex needs addressing a variety of trauma related difficulties such as homelessness, substance misuse, offending behaviour and mental health problems working with women in the community and in prison also. Anawim is passionate about women working together for women and we are keen for more women who share this passion to join our team.

The CAMEO service is a partnership between HMP Foston Hall, Her Majesty's Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS), Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust (BSMHFT), and Anawim. CAMEO is a two-year treatment service designed for female offenders who have complex needs arising from pervasive psychological difficulties who have a high risk of reoffending, have at least two years remaining on their sentence and whose progression and safe release into the community is complicated by personality difficulties. The name of the service was developed by the women in the prison and stands for: Coping with complex needs; Aiming for better understanding of self through; Motivation to change; Engaging with others and Optimism for the future.