Permanent instructional post in the textiles garment manufacture workshop at HMP Isle of Wight, within HMPPS in the Ministry of Justice. The role centres on supervising prisoners, teaching them workshop skills and assessing them towards nationally recognised qualifications, while keeping security and control in place. It is a non-operational post with no line management, on a 37-hour standard week. Relevant production experience and industrial machinery use are essential, so that is what decides fit.
What the job involves
- Supervise prisoners in the workshop, maintaining discipline, performance, motivation, appraisal and development
- Teach and assess prisoners towards national qualifications, tailoring learning to individual needs
- Induct prisoners and train them in health and safety, COSHH, and machinery and tool use
- Maintain security and control, including radio communications under the Local Security Strategy, and carry out fabric and tool checks
- Conduct metal detector scans or rub-down searches of prisoners entering and leaving the workshop
- Set work schedules, manage targets and quality standards, and approve prisoner hours and wages
- Quality-assure output against product specification
- Request materials, estimate usage and initiate product development reviews
- Complete ACCT, VRIR and SIR forms and contribute to IEP reports
- Contribute to prisoner reports, including parole and sentence planning, and update training records
- Contribute to health and safety risk assessments and carry out planned machinery maintenance
- Take part in prisoner selection, self-audit and Service Delivery Indicators, and complete workshop administration
What’s required
Qualifications
- Level 3 or equivalent in a textiles-related subject, or prepared to work towards it
Experience
- Relevant work experience in a production environment
- Experience of using industrial standard machinery and equipment
Skills & knowledge
- Working knowledge of spoken and reading English
- Confident spoken English
- IT skills
- Basic maths
- Basic English
Checks & eligibility
- DBS standard check
- Security and identity checks before taking up post
- Eligible under Civil Service nationality rules
Other
- Prepared to pass an assessment to work with young people if transferred to a young persons establishment
- Civil Service behaviours: making effective decisions, communicating and influencing, working together, managing a quality service, developing self and others
Nice to have
- Some supervisory experience
What’s offered
- Annual leave, with the holiday year running from 1 March
- 9 days in recognition of bank, public and privilege holidays, added to annual leave
- Choice of two Civil Service pension schemes
- Hybrid working where business need allows, on an informal basis
- Flexible, part-time and job-share working considered under HMPPS policy
- Season ticket advance after two months' service
- Training and development, including promotion programmes
- Security and diversity training and an individual induction programme
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
