Land Based Activities - HMP & YOI Foston Hall - Specialist Production Instructor - Commercial Horticulture (Ref: 1326)

The job holder will be required to carry out the following responsibilities, activities and duties:

• Maintain correct field-scale soil husbandry, ensuring all stages of crop development are followed in accordance with good horticultural practice.

• Maintain the growing plant/crop to ensure optimum development and/or cropping, ensuring that the plants needs are fully met.

• Maintain effective biological pest control measures and any necessary chemical crop protection programmes.

• Resolve any prisoner work issues, setting task to match their ability whilst ensuring safety and production is maintained at all times.

• Ensure produce grown on-site is prepared and packaged appropriately, taking into consideration appropriate labelling, grading and overall presentation.

• Maintain sports fields as per agreed plan with both the Farms and Gardens Manager and PE Department.

• Carry out preventative pest control measures across area of responsibility.

Undertake other instructor tasks including:

• May participate in the selection process of prisoners for the workshop/area of work.

• Induct prisoners to the workshop/area of work and train them in aspects such as Health and Safety, Control of Substance Hazardous to health (COSHH), machinery and tools usage.

• Provide support for prisoners where required; tailor learning and training requirements to individual needs.

• Set work schedules and manage targets/quality standards, maintaining delivery of contractual arrangements.

• Assess and evaluate skills of prisoners up to national qualification standards.

• Supervise and maintain discipline of prisoners within workshop/area of work, responsible for performance, motivation, discipline, appraisal and development of prisoners.

• Maintain regular communications via radio net in accordance with Local Security Strategy (LSS).

• Open and complete Assessment Care in Custody and Teamwork (ACCT) forms, Violence Reduction Incident Reports (VRIR) and Security Information Reports (SIRs) when required and contribute to Incentive Earned Privileges (IEP) reports.

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• Will conduct a metal detector scan or rub down search of prisoners attending and leaving their own workshops.

• Provide quality assurance against product specification.

• Log attendance and approve prisoner hours worked and wages including recording piece work where appropriate.

• Carry out fabric and tool checks of workshops and maintain security of areas, logging any tool/equipment faults. Undertake planned maintenance programme on machinery.

• Contribute to prisoner reports including parole and sentence planning.

• Complete regime monitoring information and update prisoner training records.

• Contribute to Health and Safety risk assessments relating to the workshop/work of area and specialist areas.

• Request materials and estimate usage in order to meet work targets.

• Initiate product development reviews to maintain workshop/area of work output levels, and to provide variety of work and experience for prisoners.

• Participate in self-audit and in achieving Service Delivery Indicators (SDIs).

• Complete administration activities to support the smooth running of the workshop., We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Making Effective Decisions

• Communicating and Influencing

• Working Together

• Managing a Quality Service

• Developing Self and Others, This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.

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Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals

• nationals of the Republic of Ireland

• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK

• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)

• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)

• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020

• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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Working for the Civil Service

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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission’s recruitment principles (opens in a new window).

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

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Alongside your salary of £31,995, HM Prison & Probation Service contributes £9,268 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

• Access to learning and development

• A working environment that supports a range of flexible working options to enhance your work life balance

• A working culture which encourages inclusion and diversity

• A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

• Annual Leave

• Public Holidays

• Season Ticket Advance

For more information about the recruitment process, benefits and allowances and answers to general queries, please click the below link which will direct you to our Candidate Information Page.

Link: https://justicejobs.tal.net/vx/candidate/cms/About%20the%20MOJ

This position is based at HM PRISON FOSTON HALL DERBY, DE65 5DN, + Email : Moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@gov.sscl.com

• Telephone : 0845 241 5358

Recruitment team

• Email : Moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@gov.sscl.com, Appointment to the Civil Service is governed by the Civil Service Commission s Recruitment Principles. I you feel a department has breached the requirement of the Recruitment Principles and would like to raise this, please contact SSCL (Moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@gov.sscl.com) in the first instance. If the role has been advertised externally (outside of the Civil Service) and you are not satisfied with the response, you may bring your complaint to the Commission. For further information on bringing a complaint to the Civil Service Commission please visit their web pages: http://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/civil-service-recruitment/complaints