Specialist Production Instructor - Feltham, United Kingdom - HM Prison & Probation Service
Description
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Reference number:
Salary:
- £31,313
Job grade:
- Executive Officer
- Band 4
Contract type: - Permanent
Type of role: - Education and Training
Working pattern: - Fulltime
Number of jobs available: - 1Contents
About the job
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Location
- This position is based at HMYOI FELTHAM FELTHAM, TW13 4NDAbout the job
Job summary:
- Please refer to Job Description
Job description:
Specialist Production Instructor:
Amenities & Conservation
Responsibility for the maintenance of grounds and conservation areas at a prison is just the beginning of this important role.
Leading a party of prisoners, you will instruct them in every aspect of gardening duties, including the use of machinery.
Under your guidance, they will take responsibility for their own environment - maintaining everything from lawns, to water features, to woodland, and carrying out both soft and hard landscaping.
Crucially, you will deliver on the prison's bio-diversity action plan by developing the conservation area, and monitoring flora and fauna.
We will also look to you to submit surveys for land based activities.
Perhaps most rewarding of all, you will enjoy scope to deliver a project that may lead to a truly unique achievement for you and your party.
Ideally, you will bring to the role a relevant vocational qualification or equivalent suitable experience.
We expect you to be familiar with grounds maintenance practice across grass, turf culture, drainage, soil husbandry, ornamental horticulture, tree and shrub culture.
Knowledge of different types of habitats will be an advantage.You will certainly bring a caring and resilient approach to your work. Strong communication skills are important too - from leading, to persuading and influencing. We expect you to be committed to achieving a safe and secure environment. Please note you may be required to work some evenings and weekends.
Overview of the job
This is a non-operational instructional job in an establishment.
Summary
The job holder will be responsible for the day to day maintenance of the grounds and conservation areas within an establishment and will deliver and assess accredited vocational qualifications to prisoners.
Responsibilities, Activities and Duties
The job holder will be required to carry out the following responsibilities, activities and duties:
- Carry out a full range of gardening activities, giving instruction to prisoners on all gardening duties including use of machinery
- Carry out soft landscaping turf laying and hard landscaping laying patio stones
- Maintain establishments grounds and conservation areas including maintenance of lawns, ponds, water features and external grounds to the establishment including woodland
- Deliver all actions in the establishment's biodiversity action plan with reference to the development of the conservation area
- Monitor flora and fauna work within the establishment
- Work inside/outside establishment grounds, cutting, mowing and maintaining areas in accordance with accepted practice
- Submit surveys for Land Based Activities specific to site
- Carry out preventive pest control measures across area of responsibility
- Act on wildlife and conservation group's recommendations and implement these
Undertake other instructor tasks including:
- May participate in the selection process of prisoners for the workshop/area of work
- 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
- Maintain regular communications via radio net in accordance with Local Security Strategy (LSS)
- Open and complete Assessment Care in Custody and Teamwork (ACCT) forms,
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