Industrial Skills Tutor

Location: HMP Dovegate, Staffordshire ST14 8XR

Salary: £33,738 - £37,652 plus excellent benefits

Schedule: 08.15am – 5.00pm, Monday to Friday, 40 hours per week

As an Industrial Skills Tutor in our Custodial team, you’ll use your experience in one of these areas to help people in prison develop practical skills, gain qualifications and prepare for a positive future beyond the prison gates. You don’t need to be an expert across all three areas – we’re looking for someone with relevant experience in warehousing, who can share their knowledge and help learners build skills that can lead to employment.

Your work will play an important role in rehabilitation and reducing reoffending. By giving people the skills, qualifications, confidence and work-ready behaviours they need to build a career after release, you’ll help create genuine opportunities for a different future. Through practical, engaging and inclusive teaching, you’ll support learners to recognise their potential, make positive progress and take important steps towards a life away from crime.

What you’ll do as an Industrial Skills Tutor:

• Deliver engaging, practical learning across vocational disciplines, embedding employability, functional skills, and British Values throughout.
• Create and maintain Individual Learning Plans and closely track learner progress and achievement.
• Design schemes of work, lesson plans and “rollon, rolloff” programmes that respond to a changing learner population.
• Contribute to curriculum development, ensuring learning materials and resources remain current and effective.
• Administer assessments, marking and accreditation processes in line with awarding requirements.
• Provide pastoral support as a Personal Tutor, helping learners build confidence, resilience, and positive learning behaviours.
• Maintain safe, inclusive and motivating learning environments that follow all security and safeguarding protocols.
• Keep accurate learner records, registers and documentation to support compliance and quality assurance.
• Work collaboratively with education managers, vocational supervisors and colleagues to deliver a cohesive and supportive learner experience.
• Promote vocational programmes and engage with internal and external partners to raise awareness and opportunity.

Does this sound like you?

You’ll be a great fit for this role if you have:

• Experience delivering warehousing, logistics, or manufacturing skills, or work-based learning - whether gained in the education sector, training environments, or an industry setting.
• A minimum Level 3 teaching qualification and Level 3 assessor qualification.
• Strong organisational and communication skills, with the ability to motivate, coach and support diverse learners.
• A commitment to high-quality teaching, continuous improvement, and inclusive learning practice.
• Confidence working in a structured environment with clear safeguarding and compliance requirements.

An Enhanced DBS check is required for this role. This includes spent and unspent convictions, cautions, and any relevant information held by local police, in accordance with the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and safeguarding requirements. You will also complete an Occupational Health Questionnaire to allow us to provide any support needed for you to succeed in the role.

What we offer:

• Holidays: 23 days plus bank holidays (increasing with tenure)
• Pension: Up to 6% contributory pension scheme
• Training and development: Over 1,100 internal courses available, funding for qualifications and apprenticeships, mentoring opportunities, and a focus on internal progression
• Health and wellbeing: Employee Assistance Programme, Bupa Anytime HealthLine, wellbeing app, 30% off at Serco-managed leisure centres, and 24/7 access to a virtual GP service
• Discounts: Discounts across around 1,000 retailers, from food and clothing to days out, entertainment and travel
• Charity: Paid volunteering day, tax-free charitable giving through Payroll Giving Scheme, donate your pennies from your monthly pay to the Serco People Fund Charity
• Employee networks: Our networks support inclusion and connection by providing spaces for collaboration, learning, and belonging.

Let’s impact a better future, together. Apply today.