Overview
The role is to supervise, train and support prisoners in a specialist work area to improve their employability and reduce reoffending.
Responsibilities
- Participate in the selection of prisoners for the workshop/area of work.
- Induct prisoners and train them in health and safety, COSHH, machinery and tool usage.
- Provide support and tailor learning and training to individual needs.
- Set work schedules and manage targets, quality standards and contractual delivery.
- Assess and evaluate prisoners' skills against national qualification standards.
- Supervise and maintain discipline, performance, motivation, appraisal and development of prisoners.
- Maintain regular communications via radio net in line with the Local Security Strategy.
- Open and complete ACCT forms, VRIRs, SIRs, and contribute to IEP reports.
- Conduct metal detector scans or rub‑down searches of prisoners attending and leaving their own workshops.
- Log attendance and approve prisoner hours worked and wages, including recording piece‑work where appropriate.
- Carry out fabric and tool checks, maintain security of areas and log any faults.
- Undertake planned maintenance programmes on machinery.
- Contribute to prisoner reports including parole and sentence planning.
- Complete regime monitoring information and update training records.
- Contribute to health and safety risk assessments for the workshop/area of work.
- Request materials and estimate usage to meet work targets.
- Initiate product development reviews to maintain output levels and variety of work.
- Participate in self‑audit and in achieving Service Delivery Indicators (SDIs).
- Complete administration activities to support the smooth running of the workshop.
Qualifications and Requirements
- Ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence through the medium of English or, where specified, Welsh.
- Willingness and ability to accept reasonable alterations and additional tasks of a similar level.
Working Arrangements
- Hybrid working is available where business need allows, but the role can only be worked in the UK.
- Standard full‑time hours are 37 per week, excluding unpaid breaks.
- Part‑time, flexible and job‑sharing arrangements may be considered where the role’s demands and business needs allow.
Benefits
- Annual holiday: 9 days (66 hours 36 minutes) in addition to annual leave allowance, plus bank and public holidays subject to shift pattern.
- Pension: choice of two Civil Service pension schemes.
- Training: opportunities in equality and diversity, challenging behaviour, suicide prevention, anti‑bullying, promotion programmes and other appropriate training.
Equal Opportunities
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition. If you feel the recruitment process has breached the Civil Service Commission’s recruitment principles, you may raise a formal complaint with the Civil Service Commission.
Nationality
- UK nationals
- Nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- Nationals of Commonwealth countries with the right to work in the UK
- Nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and their family members with settled or pre‑settled status under the EUSS
- Individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain eligible under the EUSS
- Turkish nationals and certain family members of Turkish nationals with accrued rights to work
