This Specialist Production Instructor post at HMP High Down supervises prisoners in the Land Based Activities and Horticulture work area. The core work is teaching prisoners horticultural and grounds skills, including machinery use, while keeping work targets, discipline and security in order and maintaining the prison grounds and conservation areas. It is a non-line-management role that involves regular unsocial hours, including weekends, for which a 20% payment applies. Candidates need relevant horticultural experience and a full UK driving licence, with an enhanced DBS check required.
What the job involves
- Supervise prisoners in the land-based and horticulture work area, meeting work targets, maintaining discipline and keeping a safe working environment
- Deliver a full range of horticultural activities and instruct prisoners on all land-based duties, including machinery use
- Maintain the establishment grounds and conservation areas, including lawns, ponds, water features, landscaping and woodland
- Oversee planting, cropping, harvesting and conservation across the establishment
- Teach prisoners towards nationally recognised qualifications and, where relevant, assess accredited vocational qualifications
- Deliver the relevant actions of the MoJ Biodiversity Strategy and develop the establishment's conservation areas
- Induct prisoners and train them in health and safety, COSHH, and machinery and tool use
- Select prisoners for work and manage their pay where required
- Ensure good horticultural practice
- Undertake small project work as advised
- Carry out other instructor tasks and reasonable additional tasks of a similar level
What’s required
Qualifications
- Level 3 horticulture qualification or equivalent, held or willing to work towards
- Recognised workplace assessor qualification, held or willing to work towards
Registration & licences
- PA1 and PA6 spray certification, held or willing to work towards
Experience
- Relevant work experience in horticulture, including use of horticultural machinery and tractors
- Working knowledge of grounds maintenance practice, including turf, drainage, soil husbandry and habitats
Skills & knowledge
- Clear spoken and written English to deliver instruction, qualifications and records
- Civil Service Success Profile behaviours: making effective decisions, communicating and influencing, working together, managing a quality service, developing self and others
Checks & eligibility
- Full current UK driving licence
- Enhanced DBS check
- Security and identity checks before taking up post
- Eligible under Civil Service nationality rules
Nice to have
- Supervisory experience
What’s offered
- Annual leave, with 9 bank, public and privilege holiday days (66 hours 36 minutes) added
- Choice of two Civil Service pension schemes
- Flexible, part-time and job-share working considered where it meets role and business needs
- Season ticket advance after two months' service
- 20% payment for regular unsocial hours
- Training and development, including promotion programmes and an individual induction
- Hybrid working where business need allows and the role is suitable
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
