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Multi-Skills Construction Vocational Trainer
Salary: £35,000 - £36,500
The Role
We’re recruiting for the first Vocational Trainers at HMP Millsike, a brand-new prison estate set to open in Spring 2025. If you’re passionate about making a difference through education, this is your chance to help shape our new curriculum and deliver high-quality training from the very start.
About the Role
As a Multi-Skills Construction Vocational Trainer, you’ll deliver practical, hands-on training in plastering, painting and decorating, tiling, and dry lining up to City & Guilds Level 2, preparing learners for assessments and real-world applications. Working with a cohort of up to 18 learners, your role will focus on building essential skills, fostering employability, and promoting personal growth. You’ll be a central figure in guiding learners on their journey toward meaningful employment upon release.
What You’ll Do
* Teach Practical Construction Skills: Lead engaging sessions on plastering, painting, tiling, and dry lining, and prepare learners for their City & Guilds Level 2 assessments.
* Adapt and Support Diverse Learners: Use adaptive training techniques to meet varied learning needs, ensuring each learner progresses confidently.
* Promote Safety and Tool Management: Conduct regular tool checks and uphold rigorous health and safety standards in a secure workshop environment.
* Incorporate Employability and Digital Skills: Embed employability and digital literacy within practical sessions to enhance learners’ readiness for today’s workforce.
* Encourage Personal Growth Through Restorative Practices: Foster a supportive training environment, motivating learners to engage, reflect, and take responsibility for their learning journey.
Who We’re Looking For
* Essential Requirements:
* Qualified in construction trades to at least Level 2, with a Level 2 in Maths and English.
* Strong experience in delivering vocational training or instruction in a practical setting.
* A passion for motivating and supporting learners toward achieving their goals.
* Desirable:
* A teaching qualification such as PTLLS, AET, CET, or equivalent (or willingness to work towards one).
* An assessor’s qualification (or willingness to work towards one).
If you’re excited to lead by example, inspire change, and support individuals on a path to long-term success, we want to hear from you. Join us at HMP Millsike and play a vital role in shaping a brighter future for our learners and their communities.
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