Specialist Production Instructor

7 days ago


WottonunderEdge, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom Ministry of Justice Full time

Specialist Production Instructor (SPI): Promotional Printed Products - HMP Leyhill

£30,471

Wotton-under-Edge:

Print and signage items are not the only things you will manufacture in this life-changing role.

Leading a team of offenders working in our Print and sign manufacturing workshop you will develop their skills and confidence, and possibly assess accredited vocational qualifications.


We will rely on you and your team to ensure our printed products are designed and manufactured to the highest standards, but the work you do with prisoners will have the longest lasting impact - and the most unique challenges.

You will set tasks to match their ability, while ensuring safety and production is maintained at all times.


Along the way, you could play a part in designing new and innovative products for use in a custodial setting or launching a new range for another government department.

You will certainty discover potential for rewarding development of your career.


As well as knowledge and skills spanning Print production techniques, you will need strong communication and influencing skills and a caring, resilient approach.

Our Print and signs Industry has 16 workshops across the estate with employment places for 455 prisoners.

Overview of the job


The job holder will be responsible for providing supervision, knowledge and skills to prisoners in a specialist workshop so they can improve their employment prospects on release with a view to reducing reoffending.


The role will be required to teach prisoners towards achieving nationally recognised qualifications which may be supported by external organisations such as local colleges.

This job description is not for use by job holders in basic assembly/packing workshops, instead Instructor should be used. However, on an exceptional short term basis job holders can supervise prisoners in more basic workshops.

This is a non-operational job in an establishment with workshop and prisoner management responsibilities. The role is non
- rotational.
Summary The job holder will be committed to prison workshops being places of structure and discipline.

They will provide prisoners with a work experience that better mirrors the employment experience outside of prison and which reflects the external labour market where employers and employees have obligations, with the possibility of gaining or working towards nationally recognised qualifications.

The job holder will be committed to interacting with prisoners in a way that can make a difference and contribute to reducing re
- offending, rehabilitation and increasing desistance opportunities for prisoners.


The job holder will ensure that all services are provided to a high standard and that security and control is maintained at all times.


Responsibilities, Activities and Duties
The job holder will be required to carry out the following responsibilities, activities and duties:

  • Be committed to a whole prison approach towards a safe, secure and respectful working environment where Every Contact Matters. Interacting with prisoners in a way which can make a difference and contribute to reducing reoffending, rehabilitation and decreasing desistance opportunities for prisoners.
  • May participate in the selection process of prisoners for the workshop/area of work. Taking a more pronounced lead in recruiting and dismissing prisoners from the workshops based on performance, attendance and conduct.
  • Contribute to workshop employment decisions and prisoner development needs. Providing the prisoner with an objective supervisory view on their progress and get them used to similar types of appraisal upon release.
  • Induct prisoners to the workshop/area of work and train them in aspects such as health and safety, Control of Substance Hazardous to Health (COSHH), machinery and tools usage. Delivering understanding and consequences of an employment compact, Industry related regulations para 49. Responsible for the prisoner compact, to ensure each prisoner understands and signs the compact and updates compact as necessary.
  • Deliver training to prisoners to enable them to gain nationally recognised qualifications (NVQs or equivalent) within the workshop with the assistance of assessors and local colleges. Provide quality assurance against product specification.
  • Assess and evaluate skills of prisoners up to national qualifications standards and to complete all relevant documentation pertaining to the gaining of qualifications, including signing and completing witness testimonies and specialist testimonies. Setting work schedules and manage targets/quality standards, maintaining delivery of contractual arrangements where required.
  • Will especially work closely with resettlement teams and stakeholders to provide each prisoner with sufficient support to have employment opportunities upon release from custody. Contributing to maximising the opportunities for prisoners to attend work, programmes and purpose


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