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Workshop Cover Facilitator

Location: HMP Millsike

Salary: £25,225 - £26,000

Contract: Permanent

Key Highlights:

* Join HMP Millsike’s first team of Instructors in a brand-new prison estate, opening in Spring 2025, and play a vital role in shaping prisoners’ skill development from the very beginning.

* Support operations across varied industries, including manufacturing, cleaning, waste management, horticulture, and upcycling.

* Help reduce reoffending by teaching practical skills that enhance personal development and prepare prisoners for life after release.

About the Role:

As a Cover Workshop Facilitator at HMP Millsike, you’ll manage workshop operations during periods of absence, ensuring continuous and purposeful activity. Your flexibility and adaptability will allow you to cover various workshops, delivering hands-on training that motivates and engages prisoners in their skill development journey.

Key Responsibilities:

* Step in to deliver practical training across multiple workshops, keeping prisoners engaged and supporting their growth.

* Seamlessly transition between industries, including manufacturing, cleaning, waste management, and horticulture, ensuring smooth operations.

* Conduct risk assessments, monitor tool security, and adhere to health and safety protocols specific to each workshop.

* Manage prisoners in workshop settings, promoting a positive environment and encouraging productive behaviours.

* Maintain accurate records, complete attendance logs, and document learner progress to support sentence planning and rehabilitation.

Requirements:

* Ideally hold a qualification in manufacturing or industrial operations, with strong experience managing groups in a workshop environment.

* Proven skills in adjusting to varied workshop settings and effectively engaging with prisoners.

* Experienced in administrative tasks, including logging attendance and managing workshop outputs.

* Skilled in maintaining safety standards and following prison security protocols.

Please note: This role will be known internally as Industry Cover Instructor

Apply Today:

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Working Hours:
This is a full-time role, 38.5 hours per week, with the following schedule:

* Four days per week: 8:00 AM to 5:30 PM

* One half-day per week: either 8:00 AM to 12:30 PM or 1:00 PM to 5:30 PM

Who We Are

Here at People Plus, we make a positive difference to people’s lives – every single day.

As part of The Staffline Group, we use our experience to support hundreds of thousands of people each year.

Our committed teams work across Britain to deliver a range of public services, including employment support, skills training, independent living, prison education, starting a business, and support to help employers grow.

To put it simply, we:

* Support people to find and keep jobs

* Help people to set up their own businesses

* Deliver skills training to further people’s careers

* Work with employers to build a skilled and happy workforce

* Rehabilitate people with convictions

* Tackle the root causes of offending

* Help people to live independently

* Support carers

We are extremely proud to be a Silver accredited Investors in People organisation. This means that at PeoplePlus, the right principles are in place but more than that, it means our people and leaders are making active efforts to make sure that there’s real consistency and everyone in the organisation can feel the effects.

Our Benefits

A paid PeoplePlus Life Event Day each year

25 days annual leave

Cycle to Work scheme

Access to hundreds of discounts via the Additions portal

Employee Assistance Programme

Access to online wellbeing centre

Enhanced Wedding leave

A paid volunteering day each year

Enhanced Maternity scheme

Sharesave scheme

Refer a Friend reward scheme

Holiday purchase scheme

Pension scheme

Life assurance