HMP and YOI Feltham A. Vocational Instructors (Ref: 23060)

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Please note there are 2 posts available. Attached is a generic job description for vocational instructors:

1 post is for BICS and 1 post is for painter and decorator

• *All staff have a responsibility to safeguard and promote the welfare and vulnerable young adults. The post holder must undertake the appropriate level of training and is responsible for ensuring that they understand and work within the safeguarding policies of the organisation**

Organisation Level

Delivery - The jobs at this level will be task focused delivering defined activity or service.

Overview

Job holders within this Group Profile will instruct and supervise prisoners, ensuring they are engaged in meaningful activity.

This is a non-operational prisoner facing role with no line management responsibilities.

Characteristics

Typical tasks associated with this Group Profile include:

• Supervise and maintain discipline of prisoners receiving training, education or work experience. Responsible for performance, motivation, discipline, appraisal and development of prisoners
• Open and complete Assessment Care in Custody and

Teamwork (ACCT) forms, Violence Reduction Incident Reports (VRIR) and Security Information Reports (SIRs) when required and contribute to Incentive Earned Privileges (IEP) reports

• Carry out prisoner searches on their entry and exit of the training room/ workshop
• Log attendance and approve prisoner hours worked and wages including recording piece work for individual prisoners in certain workshops
• Carry out fabric checks of workshops and maintain security of lock, bolts and bars used in the workshop
• Contribute to prisoner reports including parole, sentence planning and Individual Learning Plan
• Conduct risk and health and safety assessments on consumables under Safer Custody guidelines
• Order materials and estimate usage in order to meet work learning targets
• Open up Individual Learning Paths for the learners and keep them updated
• Advise and assist learners in seeking appropriate and relevant employment opportunities upon resettlement
• Maintain regular communications via radio net in accordance with Local Security Strategy (LSS)
• Supervise, manage and control prisoners decently, safely and securely whilst carrying out all activities.

Job Descriptions relating to this Group Profile

The post is non-rotational and will be required to carry out one of the job descriptions within their area of expertise. A sample list of job descriptions is attached below.

• Vocational Instructor : Hairdresser
• Vocational Instructor : Fork Lift Truck
• Vocational Instructor : PICTA
• Vocational Instructor : Industrial Cleaning
• Vocational Instructor : Motor Mechanics
• Vocational Instructor : Vehicle Maintenance and Valeting
• Vocational Instructor : Bricklaying
• Vocational Instructor : Construction
• Vocational Instructor : Meat Preparation Butcher
• Vocational Instructor : Media
• Vocational Instructor : Painting and Decorating
• Vocational Instructor : Storybook Dads
• Vocational Instructor : Retail Outlet
• Vocational Instructor : Healthy Living
• Vocational Instructor : Life Skills Instructor
• Vocational Instructor : Stonemasonry

Essential Skills/ Qualifications/ Accreditation/ Registration

• Staff can work towards the essential qualification
• When transferring to a Young Persons establishment the job holder will be required to successfully undertake an assessment to demonstrate suitability to work with Young People
• An ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence through the medium of English or (where specified in Wales) Welsh

Hours of Work and Allowances

37 hour working week (standard).

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Strengths.

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