Care and Rehabilitation Services HMP Five Wells, Wellingborough, NN8 2NG £44,020.80 per annum Full Time, Permanent, 40 hours Benefits: Company Pension, free on-site parking, on-site canteen, ongoing training and development and access to High Street Shop discounts. This is a great opportunity to be a part of something exciting! Rarely does an opportunity to make your mark and further your career come up like this. HMP Five Wells in Wellingborough is setting a new standard for new build prisons of the future, using forward-thinking design and technology. The Prison is the UK’s first purpose-built, new resettlement Prison. After opening in 2022 it is a one of a kind new generation category C new build Prison for the future and has become an integral part of the local community. G4S Care & Rehabilitation Services (CaRS) already successfully manages 4 prisons, one secure training centre and a number of community contracts in England and Wales. The philosophy of our prisons is to rehabilitate offenders and equip them to re-integrate into mainstream society on release. We seek to normalise prison conditions as far as possible to reflect life in the outside community. Our aim is to create an environment in which staff and prisoners feel safe. Our Vision To always strive for excellence. To maintain our community as a safe and decent place to reside and work. To work closely and inclusively with all prisoner groups to always seek to meet the needs of the population. To provide diverse and challenging regimes for all prisoners. To build positive, healthy relationships between all groups of staff and prisoners within the Five Wells Community. To always drive the rehabilitation agenda, working closely with both internal and external partners. To make Five Wells a place where both prisoners and staff can achieve betterment. This is an exceptional opportunity to be part of an exciting new contract, contributing to large-scale employment initiatives within a pioneering prison environment. As a Prison Employment Lead (PEL), you will play a pivotal role in improving the employability of prisoners and securing meaningful, sustained employment for them upon release. This is a non-operational, establishment-based role with occasional travel required. You will have line management responsibilities for at least one Band 3 administration staff member, with potential for further team growth. Working within the wider re-offending reduction agenda, you will lead the construction of a comprehensive end-to-end Prison Employment pathway. Your primary function will be to promote the very real prospect of employment to prisoners from the beginning of their journey through the establishment, ensuring they develop the necessary skills and knowledge for a law-abiding life post-release. Key Responsibilities Pathway Development: Lead on creating an end-to-end prison employment pathway, promoting employment opportunities to prisoners from induction through to release. Stakeholder Engagement: Engage with internal and external stakeholders, including the New Futures Network (NFN), Community Offender Management (COM), and other employment agencies, to establish systems that identify work-ready prisoners and match them to suitable job vacancies. Candidate Identification & Support: Develop and implement systems to identify work-ready prisoners, prioritise actions and services needed to ensure they achieve work readiness, and support them in developing personal and social skills that enhance employability. Opportunity Sourcing: Proactively identify and source employment, training, and Release on Temporary Licence (ROTL) opportunities with community partners, complementing the work of the NFN. Employment Hub Management: Manage an Employment Hub within the prison, centralising employment support services and promoting live vacancies to prisoners during their resettlement period. Induction & Skills Integration: Collaborate with Learning and Skills teams and contracted IAG/Education providers to ensure the prison induction process effectively promotes employment, education, and skills training, and captures relevant prisoner information (education, work experience, skills). Innovation & Best Practice: Champion innovations in employment and industry-focused recruitment practices (e.g., hospitality/construction drives) and work in partnership with the Prison’s Strategic Employment Advisory Boards to ensure employability systems meet commercial needs and employer standards. Employer Engagement: Organise regular opportunities for the NFN and other stakeholders to bring employers into the prison and facilitate prisoner forums. Post-Release Support: Liaise with COM to ensure smooth information transfer for prison leavers and facilitate signposting to Education, Training, and Employment CRS for continued support towards sustained employment. Reporting: Track all vacancies as part of central reporting requirements. Health & Safety: Actively promote a positive Health & Safety culture, leading by example and reporting incidents promptly. About You You are a dynamic, confident self-starter with proven experience in employability services, training, or work-based learning. You possess excellent communication, negotiation, and persuasion skills, enabling you to build strong networks and bring people on board to work with prisoners. A good understanding of the employability/welfare-to-work landscape and labour market environments is essential. You are intuitive, able to work autonomously, and passionate about maximising opportunities for prisoners, identifying new partners, and ensuring a constant stream of employment, training, and ROTL pathways. Important Information G4S is committed to safeguarding and promoting the well-being of children and adults at risk. All successful candidates must support these goals. This position is subject to a 5-year checkable history and strict vetting standards set by G4S and His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service, and is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act. You must be eligible to work in the UK and have been resident in the UK for a minimum of 3 years. Full details of your employment and education history for the last 5 years will be required for security screening.