Land Based Activities

6 months ago

Preston, United Kingdom HM Prison & Probation Service Full time

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 348148**Salary**:

- £25,752 - £27,116- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Administrative Officer- HMPPS Band 3**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Type of role**:

- Environment and Sustainability**Working pattern**:

- Full-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 2Contents

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Location
- This position is based at HM Prison Kirkham, PR4 2RNAbout the job

**Job summary**:

- Please refer to Job Description**Job description**:
Crops are not the only thing you will cultivate in this life-changing role. Leading a group of prisoners to maintain, harvest and cultivate the prison’s gardens, you will develop their skills and confidence, and assess accredited vocational qualifications.

We will rely on you and your team to ensure protected cropping is grown and harvested to the highest standards. This is a role with broad accountability, maintaining everything from field-scale soil husbandry, to plant and crop development, to biological pest control and any necessary chemical crop protection programs.

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. Taking careful account of labelling, grading and presentation, you will see that produce grown on-site is prepared and packaged appropriately. Along the way, you could play a part in supporting entry to our annual best kept prison garden competition, judged by the Royal Horticultural Society. You will certainty discover potential for rewarding development of your career.

Ideally, you will bring to the role a relevant vocational qualification or equivalent suitable experience. We expect you to be familiar with soil and growing medium husbandry, crop protection, crop production and plant protection technology, and the preparation of fresh produce for sale.

You will certainly bring a caring and resilient approach to your work. While supervisory experience will definitely be an advantage, what matters most is that you demonstrate strong communication, persuading and influencing skills. We expect you to be committed to achieving quality within a safe and secure environment. Please note you may be required to work some evenings and weekends.

**Overview of the job**

This is a delivery role within an establishment requiring an appropriate trade.

**Summary**

The job holder will be responsible for the day-to-day maintenance of the grounds and amenity areas within the estate.

This is a non-operational job with no line management or supervisory responsibilities.

**Responsibilities, Activities and Duties**

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

- Carry out soft landscaping - turf laying and hard landscaping - laying patio stones
- Maintain establishment’s grounds and amenity areas including maintenance of lawns, ponds, water features and external grounds to the establishment including woodland
- Work inside/outside establishment grounds: cutting, mowing and maintaining areas in accordance with accepted practice
- Maintain sports fields, as per agreed plan, with both the Land based Activities Manager and PE Department
- Carry out pest control preventative measures across area of responsibility
- Undertake small project work as advised/requested: including soft and hard landscape development and erection of horticultural support structures where the situation warrants
- Maintain correct soil husbandry, ensuring all stages of crop development are followed in accordance with good horticultural practice
- Maintain the growing plant/crop to ensure optimum development and/or cropping, ensuring that the plants needs are fully met
- Provide safe access and exits to the estate
- Supervise prisoners parties and undertake quality control over their work, as agreed within the Service Delivery Agreement (SDA)

Undertake other trades tasks to:

- Ensure allocated planned maintenance and small repairs are carried out, undertaking service requests raised by computer aided facilities management system
- Undertake survey inspections in confined spaces and at height, recording all work and completing associated registers/logs
- Carry out project work as required
- Advise on sufficient levels of stock and request procurement of goods and services, and ensure all materials used are logged and are fit for purpose.
- Escort technical contractors as required, working with and supervising them in accordance with Local Security Strategy (LSS)
- Maintain regular communications via radio net in accordance with the LSS.
- Undertake the role of banksman, directing the operation of plant equipment and/or machinery
- Be responsible for all tools and plant machinery, carrying out checks at regular intervals and completing all relevant do

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