All staff have a responsibility to safeguard and promote the welfare of children. 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. The job holder will be responsible for managing the day‑to‑day operations of Prison Industries within the establishment. This will involve managing the annual Industries budget; ensuring all workshop manufacturing and work activities are compliant with industry standards; and managing quality assurance processes to ensure customer satisfaction and timely contract delivery. The job holder will work with other managers within the prison to develop and enable opportunities for prisoners to learn and apply functional skills in a work setting and develop transferable skills that link to the local labour market and to employment on release. This is a non‑operational job with line‑management responsibilities.
Responsibilities
* Manage the financial needs of industries within the establishment, including the management of the annual budget, ensuring income‑generation targets are met, driving supplier performance and generating new customer contracts for independent workshops.
* Manage the operations of Industries within the establishment, ensuring the good management of all materials and that all activities are consistent and compliant with commercial manufacturing standards (ISO).
* Provide quality assurance within the Industries function, ensuring HMPPS standards and Service Delivery Indicators (SDIs) are implemented, training materials/learning resources are accessible to prisoners, and prisoner allocations are suitable to maintain commercial standards and production quotas.
* Provide leadership, support and guidance to all Instructional/support staff within Industries, managing staff performance and ensuring all B4 Instructional officers are qualified or actively working towards their Level 4 Qualification (or equivalent) in their stated work/management area.
* Work in partnership with the Learning and Skills Manager to implement the strategic vision of the Head of Education, Skills and Work, enabling a golden thread between skills developed in Industries, long‑term learning and employability outcomes, whilst embedding functional skills and other elements of the curriculum/learning within workshop/manufacturing processes.
* Work in partnership with the Learning, Skills and Employment Manager to prepare for inspections, including, but not exclusively, Ofsted/Estyn/HM Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP), and own actions resulting from inspections in respect of Industries.
* Collaborate with the Prison Employment Lead and other employment stakeholders to ensure Prison Industries forms an effective part of the prisoner pathway into further education, vocational training or employment on release, actively promoting and equipping prisoners to progress on their prison employment journey, whilst identifying work‑ready prisoners entering their resettlement phase.
* Work in partnership with the New Futures Network Regional Broker and Prison Employment Lead to establish and maintain recruitment pipelines from Prison Industries into a range of industrial sectors/local labour markets, mirroring community‑based working practices to properly prepare and equip prison leavers for employment on release.
* Ensure prisoners are appropriately supervised, inducted, trained, deployed and paid within the industries workshops and that discipline, safer custody and Health and Safety practices are maintained at all times.
Qualifications
* Experience in an industry or commercial production environment.
* Current knowledge of best practices in the relevant sector.
* Qualified to Level 4 or above, including business management modules.
* Awareness of the ISO 9001 standard or an equivalent quality management system, and a broad understanding of Health and Safety requirements in an industrial setting.
* Must be able to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence through the medium of English or, where specified in Wales, Welsh.
All newly promoted staff to the following Band 6 first‑line manager roles (Activities Unit Manager, Facilities and Services Unit Manager, Facilities and Services Business Manager, Programme Manager, Specialist Treatment Manager or Equality Advisor) in Establishments will be expected to complete the New Manager Programme on Civil Service Learning within three years of promotion. Staff that have mapped or re‑graded to Band 6 who have previously worked at an equivalent level will not be required to undertake the qualification. External applicants in these roles will also be expected to complete the New Manager Programme within three years.
Hybrid Working
The MoJ offers Hybrid Working arrangements where business need allows. This is an informal, non‑contractual form of flexible working that blends working from your base location, different MoJ sites and/or from home (this role can only be worked in the UK and not overseas). Arrangements will be discussed and agreed with the successful candidate and subject to regular review.
Benefits and Working Patterns
* Standard full‑time working hours are 37 hours per week excluding unpaid breaks.
* HMPPS welcomes part‑time, flexible and job‑sharing working patterns, in accordance with business needs.
* All applications for part‑time, flexible and job‑sharing working patterns will be considered in accordance with the HMPPS Flexible Working policy.
* A short loan to a National Prison Service employee may be available for up to two years on an appointment‑upon‑approval basis.
* Annual leave is calculated on a pro‑rated basis; the holiday year runs from 1 March.
* Bank, public and privileged holidays entitlement of 9 days (66 hours 36 minutes).
* Choice of two pension schemes offered by the Civil Service.
* Eligible for a season‑ticket advance after two months’ service.
* Employee development programmes on Equality and Diversity, dealing with challenging behaviour, suicide prevention and anti‑bullying.
Eligibility and Recruitment
* All candidates are subject to security and identity checks prior to starting.
* External candidates undergo a six‑month probation period. Internal candidates are subject to probation if not already served a period within HMPPS.
* Applicants may request reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process; the MoJ is a Disability Confident employer.
* Applications are encouraged from suitable qualified staff; the role may be open to a loan or secondment basis for suitable NPS employees.
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