Job Title: Occasional Worker: Support - Prison Education - HMP Elmley
Location: Isle of Sheppey, HMP Elmley
Posted: 28/06/2026
Job details
- Salary up to £16.12 per hour
- Contractual hours 0
- Basis Occasional Worker
- Region South
- Package Flexibility
- Job reference VO00471
- Attachments: Occasional Worker Support– Prison Education – HMP Elmley.pdf
Job description
Milton Keynes College have an exciting opportunity for an Occasional Support Worker to join our Prison Education team at HMP Elmley. The core duties would include covering for our administration, inclusion practitioner or induction roles as required.
As an Administrator, you will be a capable and experienced administrator with excellent verbal and written communication skills. You will provide a high-quality service to both internal and external stakeholders at the prison and the wider College team.
As a successful Inclusion Practitioner, you will conduct one to one SANs plans with learners who have been identified as requiring additional support. You will save and share the plans with appropriate stakeholders including teachers in our education department to provide advice and guidance on how to support offenders through learning and work opportunities withing the prison.
In the induction role, you will support learners to complete initial assessments in English, maths, Digital Skills, Do-it profilers, Reading and ESOL as required and record and share these details with stakeholders as appropriate. You will share details of what is on offer to residents across the education department and prison.
This opportunity involves supporting the Department Manager in the day‑to‑day learning facilitating and administration operations of the department. Your ability to work on your own initiative is critical for this role and you will need to have a flexible and resilient approach to your work as it will be varied.
Milton Keynes College is looking for a patient and friendly individual who is self‑motivated and works well under pressure. If you possess excellent administration and communication skills, we will welcome your interest and application for this opportunity.
Benefits
- Professional development opportunities, including professional qualifications
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) accessible 24 hours per day, 365 days per year
- A variety of amazing discounts with NUS Card and our reward and recognition platform Encore
- Employee wellbeing platform
