Head of Education, Skills and Work

2 weeks ago


Peterborough, United Kingdom Sodexo Full time

Job Introduction
**Package Description**

**£50,500 - £58,100 depending on experience plus 15% bonus**

Working with Sodexo is more than a job; it’s a chance to be part of something greater. You’ll belong in a company and team that values you for you; you’ll act with purpose and have an impact through your everyday actions; and you’ll be able to thrive in your own way. In addition, we offer:

- Flexible and dynamic work environment
- Competitive compensation
- Access to ongoing training and development programs
- Countless opportunities to grow within the company
- Full training and full protective uniform supplied
- Health and wellbeing incentives
- Reward and Recognition schemes
- Flexible working considered
- Volunteering days
- Cycle to work scheme
- Life Assurance
- Free meals and parking on site
- Eligible for blue light discounts

**Job Introduction**

We are recruiting a Head of Education, Skills and Employment to be based at HMP Peterborough and support the efforts to reduce reoffending by providing a strategic senior leadership focus on prisoner learning. As the Head of Education, Skills and Employment, you will support the prison to become a place of meaningful work with a key focus on leading education, skills and work within the prison whilst also working with prison industries and local private enterprise to make the most appropriate use of workshops to provide prisoners with the learning and skills required to compete for and achieve employment within the local labour market.

This is a hugely rewarding job that can have a positive affect on reoffending rates. If you believe this is the role for you and want to make a difference, APPLY NOW

Opportunities for learning and developing work-ready skills are on offer for all who come in to custody, but our commitment to reducing reoffending in local communities does not end at the prison gate. We support people released from custody through innovative partnerships and working with people to maintain recovery and lead law-abiding lives.

For more information on Sodexo Careers please visit Sodexo Careers and Careers in Justice

Join Sodexo and be part of something greater. You belong in a team where you can act with purpose and thrive in your own way.

For more information on Sodexo Careers please visit Sodexo Careers

**Main Responsibilities**
- Responsible for setting and leading the strategic direction for all of education, skills and work within the establishment.
- Responsible for creating effective approaches to learning and teaching in line with HMPPS and Sodexo's education vision and values, as well as regional and national directives and developing a coherent, evidence-based, strategy for all education, skills and work so that the learning, skills and qualifications gained in prison work to maximise opportunities for employment on release.
- Responsible for delivery of the following related functions/pathways in a prison in line with national frameworks and guidance, and in a way which meets user needs. This will include, but not be limited to, Education, Neurodiversity, Employment on release, Work in Prison/Industries, Gardens.
- Work in strategic partnership with the Head of Reducing Reoffending and other Head of Functions across each of their respective responsibilities to maximise education, skills and work opportunities, to reduce reoffending and support with effective prisoner resettlement.
- Work with the Director and Deputy Director to develop a strategy to support higher volumes of prison leavers into employment on release.
- Responsible for managing the quality of education, skills and work (ESW) provision using Ofsted’s Education Inspection Framework criteria, including providing guidance and expertise to the prison’s senior leadership team to ensure the requirements of Ofsted’s inspection framework are prioritised.
- Responsible for leading on inspections, including preparation, and driving forward the delivery of actions arising from them. This includes Standard Audit, Her Majesty Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP), OFSTED/Estyn, Action Plans and Managing Quality of Prison Life (MQPL) surveys.
- Responsible for ensuring that a culture of employment is maintained within the prison, and responsible for prisoner outcomes in relation to employment post release.
- Responsibility for guiding the Prison Employment Lead (PEL) to embed this culture, utilising the Employment Hub (EH) and maximising the prison’s relationships with New Futures Network, Probation service, Community Rehabilitation Service providers and other education/employment stakeholders and networks who support prison leavers.
- Responsible for ensuring the delivery of Prison Industries & Activities, Gymnasium, New Futures Network and local private enterprise work within prison workshops.
- Responsible for the line management and development of staff within the function, including creating a culture of high expectations and taking appropriate action when



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