NVI: Waste Management & Recycling (HMP Berwyn) in Wrexham

This is a non‑operational job in an establishment. The job holder will be responsible for providing supervision to prisoners in the waste management and recycling environments within an establishment. They will be required to transfer knowledge and skills to prisoners to ensure safe and effective waste collection and appropriate disposal.

The job holder will brief prisoners within the Waste Management Unit on required tasks, build effective, supportive relationships, manage them proactively, and promote the decency agenda. The role contributes to sentence planning, reduces re‑offending, applies safer custody practices, and ensures high security, good order and hygiene within workshop areas.

Responsibilities, Activities and Duties:

• Supervise and escort prisoners to collect, process and dispose of waste/recycling from all areas inside the establishment, complying with all Health and Safety policies, procedures and legislation.
• Accurately record all waste removed from site, including weight, cost and revenue, and contribute to control measures for restricted waste and shredding of confidential waste.
• Monitor, maintain and account for all workshop tools, equipment and raw materials, ensuring safety and security at all times.
• Open and manage the workshop area, issue tools, supervise and escort prisoner work parties, and oversee the quality of their work in line with local procedures.
• Participate in the selection, induction and training of prisoners for the workshop, covering health and safety, COSHH, machinery and tool usage, WMU objectives, workshop discipline, manual handling and PPE.
• Provide tailored support, learning and training to prisoners, set work schedules and 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 books/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.

Civil Service Success Profile Criteria:

• Behaviours: Communicating & Influencing, Managing a Quality Service, Seeing the Bigger Picture
• Experience: May have completed manual handling, basic security awareness and be trained in break‑away techniques.
• Technical requirements: Basic knowledge of the Waste Hierarchy, understand what Waste Permits and Exemptions are, will comply with the relevant Health & Safety policies and regulations such as COSHH.
• Ability: Basic Maths, Basic English

Hours of Work (Unsocial Hours) Allowances: This role requires working regular unsocial hours and payment at the current approved organisation rate will be made in addition to basic pay to recognise this. Unsocial hours are those outside 0700‑1900 hrs Monday to Friday and include working evenings, nights, weekends and Bank/Public holidays.

Civil Service Nationality Rules: This job is broadly open to the following groups: UK nationals, nationalities of the Republic of Ireland, nationalities of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK, nationalities 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), nationalities 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 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.