Prison Trainer

**Job Reference**:

- PTR-241**Salary**:
**Contract Type**:

- Fixed Term/Full Time**Contract Length**:

- Fixed Term until 31 March 2025**Working Hours**:

- 35 hours per week**Location**:

- HMP Oakwood, Featherstone**Job Summary**:
If so, St Giles Trust is looking for a** Prison Trainer** to deliver a diverse range of short, sector-specific skills training courses aimed at enhancing prisoners' skills and tailored to align with the voluntary and third sector that will result in an employment opportunity for prison leavers.

**About St Giles Trust**
An ambitious, well-established charity that helps people facing adversity to find jobs, homes and the right support they need. Central to our ethos is our belief that people with first-hand experience of successfully overcoming issues such as an offending background, homelessness, addictions and gang involvement, hold the key to positive change in others.

**About this key role**

We will rely on you to interview applicants, assess learning and other needs - taking into account support issues and experience, and carry out risk assessments, plus work with learners to produce and review realistic individual learning plans and, for group sessions, liaise with the key contact within the prison ahead of the course to explain the course, identify the aims and likely needs of learners and adapt sessions as required. Collecting feedback and evidence of the progress made by learners and undertaking the administration necessary for tracking learner progress are also important aspects of the role.

**What we are looking for**
- Extensive experience of delivering engaging training to a range of learners, including adults facing disadvantage
- Proven experience of supporting people who have multiple and complex needs
- Experience of working to targets and recording information/statistics for effective performance monitoring
- An appropriate teaching-related qualification
- Sound understanding of the issues faced by prisoners in accessing and sustaining training or employment
- Strong belief in the ability of people to turn their lives around
- Excellent interpersonal, relationship-building and communication skills, both verbal and written
- A flexible, collaborative and professional approach to your work.

**Please note this role requires Enhanced Adult DBS checks**

In return, you can expect a competitive salary, generous leave allowance, staff pension, flexible working, a mentoring programme, an advice and counselling service, season ticket loan and much more.
- heritage ) and those who identify as disabled, neuroexpansive, neurodiverse, with any protected characteristics and/or social barriers or challenges. We value the empowering and informative impact that all lived experiences and diversity of thought can offer the organisation.
St Giles will guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria set out in the Job Description for the vacancy.

To apply, please visit our website via the ‘Apply’ button.

**Closing date: 11 p.m. 07 February 2024**
**Interview date: 12 February 2024