Production Instructor

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

- 298527**Salary**:

- £24,067 - £25,342**Job grade**:

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

- Permanent**Type of role**:

- Other**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- This position is based at HM Prison Standford Hill, ME12 4AAAbout the job

**Job summary**:

- Please refer to Job Description**Job description**:
**Do you like working in the great outdoors? Do you have a passion for Gardening? If so, we have a great opportunity for you.**

This Band 3 position offers an exciting opportunity to work within HMPPS. The role is to support stakeholders working from an area situated just outside of the prison. The area includes allotments available for local members of the public, an aviation museum, a bee farm, Tea Room and shop. The role holder will be responsible for working with all of these in order to ensure the upkeep of the overall area. It will be your role to provide supervisory support to the wider team and ensure the grounds look presentable for any visitors.

The job holder will work with a small party of prisoners to ensure the upkeep, cleanliness and development of the outside and communal areas around the site, including grass cutting, planting, strimming and weeding. The job holder will act as the first point of contact for the partner agencies in the area. The job holder will also instruct the prisoners in growing plants, including fruits and vegetables, for use in the Tea Room, as well as plants that can be added to the wooden planters made on site, for sale in the shop.

This position would suit an enthusiastic, energetic and creative person, who is adaptable with a ‘can-do’ attitude and an attention to detail with the ability to use their own initiative. The position requires someone that strives for excellence and will work as part of a team

**Experience & Skills**
- Previous experience in a similar role
- Excellent communication skills
- Skilled basic handyperson
- Ability to work unsupervised and as part of a team.
- Self-motivated and organised.

**Overview of the job**

This is a non-operational job in an establishment.

The job holder will be responsible for providing supervision, knowledge and skills to prisoners in non-specialist workshops where no qualifications are being delivered and nor is the job holder deployed in training prisoners up to the required level to gain qualifications.

This job description is not designed for use by job holders in specialist workshops as the role will not be required to be qualified in a specialist area or to train prisoners up to the required level to gain qualifications. In these circumstances Specialist Production Instructor should be used.

Although this is a non-operational job in an establishment with no line management responsibilities the job holder will have workshop and prisoner management responsibilities.

This is a rotational role.

**Summary**

The job holder will be committed to prison workshops being places of structure and discipline. The job holder will, as far is reasonably practicable, provide the prisoner with a work experience in workshops that better mirrors the employment experience outside of prison.

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

On an exceptional short term basis. job holders can supervise prisoners in more specialist workshops. For example:

- Emergency, an unforeseen or sudden occurrence, especially of danger demanding immediate action.
- Ad-Hoc use of an Instructor in staffing HMPPS workshops only and not workshops or classrooms normally staffed by employees of any provider other than HMPPS.
- Short Term, timeframe 1-5 days, to allow management to put in alternative measures to resolve a workshop staffing problem that did not exist more than 48 hours before.

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

- Participate in the selection process of prisoners for the workshop.
- 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. Ensuring all tools, equipment and raw materials are safe, secure and properly accounted for.
- Provide support for prisoners where required; tailor learning and training requirements to individual needs. Setting work schedules and manage targets/quality standards, maintaining delivery of contractual arrangements.
- Supervise, manage and control prisoners decently, safely and securely whilst carrying out all activities, with responsibility for their performance, motivation, discipline, appraisal and development. Conduct a metal detector scan or rub down search of prisoners attending