At a Glance
- Tasks: Supervise prisoners in waste management, ensuring safe collection and disposal of waste.
- Company: Join a supportive team at HMP Belmarsh focused on rehabilitation and skill development.
- Benefits: Gain valuable experience, develop skills, and contribute to meaningful change.
- Other info: Dynamic role with opportunities for personal growth and community impact.
- Why this job: Make a difference by helping others learn and grow while managing waste responsibly.
- Qualifications: Experience in manual handling and basic security awareness required.
The predicted salary is between 30000 - 40000 £ per year.
Overview of the job
This is a non-operational job in an establishment.
The job holder will provide supervision to prisoners in waste management and recycling environments within the establishment, transferring knowledge and ensuring safe waste collection and disposal.
Some waste management units deliver qualifications, and the specialist production instructor will handle training and advisory tasks.
The job holder may assist in assessment support.
Summary
The job holder will brief prisoners within the Waste Management Unit, build supportive relationships, contribute to sentence planning, apply safer custody practices and maintain hygiene within workshop areas.
Responsibilities, Activities and Duties
- Supervise and escort prisoners to collect, process and dispose of waste/recycling, complying with all Health and Safety policies.
- Accurately record all waste removed from site, including weight, cost and revenue; contribute to control measures for restricted waste.
- Monitor, maintain and account for all workshop tools, equipment and raw materials, ensuring safety and security.
- Open and manage the workshop area, issue tools, supervise and escort prisoner work parties and oversee quality of work.
- Participate in selection, induction and training of prisoners covering health and safety, COSHH, machinery and tool usage, WMU objectives, discipline, manual handling and PPE.
- Provide tailored support, learning and training to prisoners, set work schedules, manage targets and quality standards.
- Supervise and control prisoners to ensure their safety, security, motivation, discipline, appraisal and development, including conducting searches as required.
- Contribute to prisoner reports, parole and sentence planning, and complete relevant documentation such as ACCTs, SIRs, IEPs, regime monitoring, training records and progress trackers.
- Manage workshop resources by requesting materials, maintaining stock levels, logging attendance, approving prisoner hours and wages, and providing administrative support including liaison with contractors.
- Maintain effective communication and security by operating radio equipment, supporting local contingency plans, escorting technical contractors, acting as banksman and driving estates vehicles and plant equipment as required.
The duties listed describe the post at present and may be subject to reasonable changes.
The job holder may be required to accept reasonable alterations and additional tasks of a similar level.
- Behavioural Profile
- Developing Self & Others
- Communicating & Influencing
- Managing a Quality Service
- Seeing the Bigger Picture
Experience
- Experience in manual handling, basic security awareness and break‑away techniques.
- Technical requirements
- Basic knowledge of the Waste Hierarchy.
- Understanding of Waste Permits and Exemptions.
- Compliance with relevant Health & Safety policies such as COSHH.
- Ability
- IT skills.
- Basic English (and Welsh where specified in Wales).
- Hours of Work
37 hour working week (standard).
Eligibility for the role (Civil Service Nationality Rules)
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)
- Nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members who have made a valid application for settled or pre‑settled status under 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
EEO Statement
The Ministerial Office for Justice is an equal opportunities employer.
It is open to all interested candidates who meet the work‑related requirements and who can contribute to the role described.
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