This permanent instructor post is in the powder coating workshop at HMP Wymott, run by HM Prison & Probation Service in the Ministry of Justice. The postholder supervises prisoners in a specialist workshop, inducting and training them in health and safety and machinery use, and assesses their skills against national qualification standards. The role has no line management, works a 37-hour week and can include hybrid working within the UK. Relevant specialist experience is needed, plus a level 3 qualification or willingness to work towards one.
What the job involves
- Supervise prisoners in the workshop, maintaining discipline and managing their performance, motivation, appraisal and development
- Induct prisoners and train them in health and safety, COSHH, and machinery and tool use
- Assess and evaluate prisoner skills up to national qualification standards
- Set work schedules, manage targets and quality standards, and quality assure output against product specification
- Provide support and tailor learning and training to individual needs; take part in selecting prisoners for the workshop
- Carry out metal detector scans or rub-down searches of prisoners entering and leaving the workshop
- Open and complete ACCT, VRIR and SIR forms, contribute to IEP reports, and maintain radio communications under the Local Security Strategy
- Log attendance, approve prisoner hours and wages including piece work, and update training and regime monitoring records
- Carry out fabric and tool checks, maintain area security, log equipment faults and run the planned machinery maintenance programme
- Request materials and estimate usage to meet work targets; initiate product development reviews
- Contribute to prisoner reports, including parole and sentence planning, and to health and safety risk assessments
- Complete self-audit, work towards Service Delivery Indicators, and carry out workshop administration
Qualifications
- Level 3 qualification in the specialism, equivalent experience, or willingness to work towards one
Experience
- Relevant work experience in a specialist field
- Experience of using industrial standard machinery and equipment
Skills & knowledge
- IT skills
- Basic maths
- Basic English
- Able to fulfil the spoken aspects of the role in English, or Welsh where specified
Checks & eligibility
- DBS standard check
- Security and identity checks before taking up post
- Eligible under Civil Service nationality rules
- Declaration of any membership of a group HMPPS considers racist
Other
- Civil Service Success Profile behaviours: making effective decisions, communicating and influencing, working together, managing a quality service, developing self and others
Nice to have
- Supervisory experience
- Qualified NVQ assessor
What’s offered
- 9 days (66 hours 36 minutes) for bank, public and privilege holidays, added to annual leave
- Holiday year runs from 1 March, with leave pro-rated for non-standard patterns
- Choice of two Civil Service pension schemes
- Hybrid working where business need allows, within the UK
- Part-time, flexible and job-share patterns considered
- Season ticket advance after two months' service
- Training and development, including promotion programmes
- Security, diversity and individual induction training
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
