A non-operational instructor post in the waste management unit at HMP Humber, supervising prisoners who handle waste and recycling across the establishment. The work centres on training prisoners safely, recording all waste removed, and running the workshop, tools and stock included. Qualification delivery and compliance advice sit with Specialist Production Instructors, and the role carries regular unsocial hours but no line management. Applicants need basic knowledge of the waste hierarchy and permits, and must pass a standard DBS check.
What the job involves
- Supervise and escort prisoners to collect, process and dispose of waste and recycling across the establishment
- Follow health and safety policies and legislation to keep the working environment safe
- Accurately record all waste removed from site, including weight, cost and revenue
- Control restricted waste and the shredding of confidential waste
- Monitor, maintain and account for workshop tools, equipment and raw materials
- Open and manage the workshop, issue tools, supervise work parties and oversee quality
- Take part in selecting, inducting and training prisoners in workshop safety, COSHH, machinery and PPE
- Provide tailored learning and training, set work schedules, and manage targets and quality standards, including supportive statements for assessments
- Supervise and control prisoners for safety, security, discipline, appraisal and development, including searches and promoting the decency agenda
- Contribute to sentence planning, prisoner reports, parole and documents such as ACCTs, SIRs and IEPs
- Manage workshop resources, stock, attendance, prisoner hours and wages, and liaise with contractors
- Operate radio equipment, support contingency plans, escort contractors, act as banksman, and drive estates vehicles and plant
What’s required
Skills & knowledge
- Basic knowledge of the waste hierarchy
- Understanding of waste permits and exemptions
- IT skills
- Basic maths
- Basic English
- Ability to carry out all spoken aspects of the role confidently in English, or Welsh where specified
Checks & eligibility
- Standard DBS check
- Security and identity checks before taking up post
- Eligibility under Civil Service nationality rules
- Declaration of any membership of a group HMPPS considers racist
Other
- Compliance with health and safety policies and regulations such as COSHH
- Behaviour: Developing self and others
- Behaviour: Communicating and influencing
- Behaviour: Working together
- Behaviour: Managing a quality service
- Behaviour: Seeing the bigger picture
Nice to have
- Manual handling training
- Basic security awareness
- Break-away techniques training
What’s offered
- 20% unsocial hours payment on top of basic pay
- Annual leave plus 9 bank, public and privilege holidays added
- Choice of two Civil Service pension schemes
- Season ticket advance after two months' service
- Part-time, flexible and job-share working considered under HMPPS policy
- Security, diversity and individual induction training, with access to promotion programmes
- Informal hybrid working where business need allows
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
