As our Head of Education, Skills and Work, you will support the prison to become a place of meaningful work, with a key focus on leading Education, Skills, and Work, along with the accountability of purposeful activity across the regime. You will provide strategic leadership while supporting the Learning and Skills Manager to ensure that activities are purposeful and aimed at maximizing prisoners' opportunities for employment, education, and training upon release.
You must have substantial Post-16 education teaching experience and curriculum development, and hold relevant teaching qualifications. Your knowledge of OFSTED inspections will include Estyn's EIF (Education Inspection Framework), as well as criteria for prisoners with Additional Learning Needs and their application within the prison context.
As a strategic leader, you will be responsible for creating a prisoner education service focused on work-based training and personal development pathways. You will also be accountable for the proportion of prisoners in employment six weeks post-release.
Other responsibilities include:
1. Ensuring effective working relationships with the New Futures Network broker for the region/prison group.
2. Creating sector-based training opportunities and recruitment pipelines in collaboration with the New Futures Network and employment partners.
3. Developing and supporting a Quality Improvement group with employment-focused agencies, including the Prison Employment Lead, IAG services, DWP Prison Work Coaches, the education provider, and other non-statutory agencies such as charities and social enterprises.
Qualifications required include a relevant Degree in Education, PGCE, Cert Ed, or Level 5 Teaching Qualification, with QTS or QTLS status.
You should be a confident professional leader with the passion and drive to support our prisoners. Experience working collaboratively with senior leaders, stakeholders, and students is essential.
Additionally, you must have experience operating in a specialist neurodiversity role.
We are a proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme. As a Disability Confident employer, we generally offer an interview to any applicant who discloses a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job. Please note that during high-volume, seasonal, or peak recruitment times, the number of interviews offered may be limited. For more details, please visit our website.
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