Specialist Production Instructor (SPI) : HMP Durham (Ref: 21691)

Please refer to Job Description

Overview

Job holders within this Group Profile will be responsible for providing supervision, knowledge and skills to prisoners in a specialist workshop so they can improve their employment prospects on release with a view to reducing reoffending. The job holder will ensure that all services are provided to a high standard and that security and control is maintained at all times. The jobholder will be able to teach prisoners towards achieving nationally recognised qualifications and may be supported by external organisations such as local colleges.

This job description is not for use by jobholders in basic assembly / packing workshops, instead Production Instructor – Enterprises should be used. However, on an exceptional short term basis jobholders can supervise prisoners in more basic workshops.

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

Characteristics

Typical tasks associated with this Group Profile include:

• 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

• Provide support for prisoners where required; tailor learning and training requirements to individual needs
• Set work schedules and manage targets/quality standards, maintaining delivery of contractual arrangements
• Assess and evaluate skills of prisoners up to national qualification standards
• Supervise and maintain discipline of prisoners within workshop/area of work, 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

• Log attendance and approve prisoner hours worked and wages including recording piece work where appropriate
• Carry out fabric and tool checks of workshops and maintain security of areas, logging any tool/equipment faults. Undertake planned maintenance programme on machinery
• Contribute to Health and Safety risk assessments relating to the workshop/work of area and specialist areas
• Will conduct a metal detector scan or rub down search of prisoners attending and leaving their own workshops

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.

• Specialist Production Instructor : Amenities and Conservation
• Specialist Production Instructor : Commercial Horticultural
• Specialist Production Instructor : Engineering Aluminium Windows Double Glazing
• Specialist Production Instructor : Cycle Repair
• Specialist Production Instructor : Textiles Garment Manufacture
• Specialist Production Instructor : Textiles Sewing Machine Repair
• Specialist Production Instructor : Engineering Machining
• Specialist Production Instructor : Engineering Powder Coating Systems
• Specialist Production Instructor : Engineering Sheet Metal Work
• Specialist Production Instructor : Engineering Computer Aided Drawing
• Specialist Production Instructor : Engineering Welding and Fabrication
• Specialist Production Instructor : Laundry
• Specialist Production Instructor : Livestock Control
• Specialist Production Instructor : Plastics Injection Moulding Thermo Plastics
• Specialist Production Instructor : Printing Lithographic Machine Minder
• Specialist Production Instructor : Printing Origination Lithographic Platemaking
• Specialist Production Instructor : Printing Print Finishing & Binding
• Specialist Production Instructor : Waste Environmental
• Specialist Production Instructor : Woodwork Wood Assembly Joiner
• Specialist Production Instructor : Woodwork Wood Machinist
• Specialist Production Instructor : Woodwork Wood Finisher Sprayer
• Specialist Production Instructor : Manufacturing Promotions
• Specialist Production Instructor : Braille
• Specialist Production Instructor : Signs
• Specialist Production Instructor : Concrete
• Specialist Production Instructor : Footwear
• Specialist Production Instructor : TV Repair
• Specialist Production Instructor : Upholsterer
• Specialist Production Instructor : Warehousing and Performing Manufacturing Operations
• Specialist Production Instructor : Vehicle Maintenance and Valeting
• Specialist Production Instructor : Promotional Printed Products
• Specialist Production Instructor : Digital Signage

Essential Skills/ Qualifications/ Accreditation/ Registration

May be a qualified NVQ assessor.

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 week

Behaviours

• Making Effective Decisions
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together
• Managing a Quality Service
• Developing Self and Others

Essential Experience

• Must have relevant work experience in specialist field
• Preferable for candidate to have some supervisory experience
• Should have experience of using industrial standard machinery and equipment

Technical Requirements

• Currently hold or be prepared to work towards Level 3 or equivalent in related subject

Ability

• IT Skills
• Basic Maths
• Basic English

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

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