Workshop Cover Instructor

Are you a skilled instructor or hands-on professional looking for a varied and rewarding role? Do you thrive in practical, hands-on environments where no two days are the same? At HMP Millsike, we’re looking for a Cover Workshop Facilitator to step in and lead workshops across multiple industries, ensuring that operations continue smoothly during periods of staff absence. This is a key role in maintaining structured, skill-building activities for prisoners, supporting their rehabilitation and future employability.

Working Hours: This is a full-time role, 38.5 hours per week, with the following schedule:

• Four days per week: 8:00 AM to 5:30 PM
• One half-day per week: either 8:00 AM to 12:30 PM or 1:00 PM to 5:30 PM

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Lead & Train: Deliver practical, hands-on training across manufacturing, cleaning, waste management, and horticulture workshops.
• Engage & Motivate: Keep prisoners engaged in purposeful activity, supporting their personal and professional development.
• Ensure Safety & Compliance: Conduct risk assessments, maintain tool security, and follow health and safety protocols tailored to each workshop.
• Adapt & Problem-Solve: Seamlessly transition between different workshop environments, ensuring continuity and high standards.
• Record & Report: Maintain accurate attendance records, track learner progress, and contribute to rehabilitation plans.

What We’re Looking For:

• Hands-on experience in a trade, workshop, or vocational training environment (manufacturing, industrial operations, cleaning, waste management, or similar).
• Ability to manage and engage groups, ensuring structure, motivation, and discipline in workshop settings.
• Strong adaptability skills – able to step into different industries and quickly get up to speed.
• Administrative competency – able to log attendance, track outputs, and maintain workshop documentation.
• Commitment to safety & compliance – experience working within health & safety and security protocols is desirable.

Who We Are: Here at People Plus, we make a positive difference to people’s lives – every single day. We use our experience to support hundreds of thousands of people each year. Our committed teams work across Britain to deliver a range of public services, including employment support, skills training, independent living, prison education, starting a business, and support to help employers grow.

To put it simply, we:

• Support people to find and keep jobs
• Help people to set up their own businesses
• Deliver skills training to further people’s careers
• Work with employers to build a skilled and happy workforce
• Rehabilitate people with convictions
• Tackle the root causes of offending
• Help people to live independently

We are extremely proud to be a Silver accredited Investors in People organisation. This means that at PeoplePlus, the right principles are in place but more than that, it means our people and leaders are making active efforts to make sure that there’s real consistency and everyone in the organisation can feel the effects.

Safeguarding Statement: A4E is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We particularly welcome applications from underrepresented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.