Job Description (JD)
Band 3
Group Profile - Mentor (M)
Job Description - M : Instructor
Document Ref.
OR-JES-639 JD B3 M : Instructor
Document Type
Management
Version
12.0
Classification
Official
Date of Issue
11 May 2023
Status
Baselined
Produced by
Job Evaluation Assurance and Support Team
Authorised by
Reward Team
JD Evidence
OR-JES-639 JD B3 M : Instructor v12.0
Job Description
Job Title
M: Instructor
Group Profile
Mentor
Organisation
Delivery
Level
Band
3
Overview of the
This is a non-operational job in an establishment.
job
The job holder will be responsible for providing supervision,
knowledge and skills to prisoners in non-specialist workshops
where no qualifications are being delivered and nor is the job
holder deployed in training prisoners up to the required level to
gain qualifications.
This job description is not designed for use by job holders in
specialist workshops as the role will not be required to be qualified
in a specialist area or to train prisoners up to the required level to
gain qualifications. In these circumstances Specialist Production
Instructor should be used.
Although this is a non-operational job in an establishment with no
line management responsibilities the job holder will have
workshop and prisoner management responsibilities.
This is a rotational role.
Summary
The job holder will be committed to prison workshops being
places of structure and discipline. The job holder will, as far is
reasonably practicable, provide the prisoner with a work
experience in workshops that better mirrors the employment
experience outside of prison.
The job holder will ensure that all services are provided to a high
standard and that security and control are maintained at all times.
On an exceptional short term basis. job holders can supervise
prisoners in more specialist workshops. For example:
• Emergency, an unforeseen or sudden occurrence,
especially of danger demanding immediate action.
• Ad-Hoc use of an Instructor in staffing HMPPS workshops
only and not workshops or classrooms normally staffed by
employees of any provider other than HMPPS.
• Short Term, timeframe 1-5 days, to allow management to
put in alternative measures to resolve a workshop staffing
problem that did not exist more than 48 hours before.
OR-JES-639 JD B3 M : Instructor v12.0
Responsibilities,
The job holder will be required to carry out the following
Activities and
responsibilities, activities and duties:
Duties
• Participate in the selection process of prisoners for the
workshop.
• 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. Ensuring all tools, equipment and raw
materials are safe, secure and properly accounted for.
• Provide support for prisoners where required; tailor
learning and training requirements to individual needs.
Setting work schedules and manage targets/quality
standards, maintaining delivery of contractual
arrangements.
• Supervise, manage and control prisoners decently, safely
and securely whilst carrying out all activities, with
responsibility for their performance, motivation, discipline,
appraisal and development. Conduct a metal detector
scan or rub down search of prisoners attending and
leaving their own workshops.
• Initiate product development reviews to maintain
workshop/area of work output levels, and to provide
variety of work and experience for prisoners.
• Contribute to risk and health and safety assessments on
consumables and Health and Safety risk assessments
relating to the workshop/area of work and specialist areas.
• Actively contribute to prisoner reports, parole and
sentence planning, Assessment, Care in Custody &
Teamwork (ACCT) and Security Information Report
(SIRs) by providing information to case managers. Open
and complete Assessment Care in Custody and
Teamwork (ACCT) forms, Violence Reduction Incident
Reports (VRIR) and Security Information Reports (SIRs)
when required and contribute to Incentive Earned
Privileges (IEP) reports.
• Contribute to prisoner reports including parole and
sentence planning, regime monitoring information and
update prisoner training records.
• Maintain regular communications via radio net in
accordance with Local Security Strategy (LSS).
• Request materials and estimate usage in order to meet
work targets whilst providing quality assurance against
product specification.
• Log attendance and approve prisoner hours worked and
wages including recording piece work where appropriate.
• Attending and contributing to relevant meetings as
required.
• Providing administrative support for workshop activities.
Preparing relevant documentation to managers for
verification/quality checking purposes. Maintaining and
updating systems in line with local agreements.
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The duties/responsibilities listed above describe the post as it is
at present and is not intended to be exhaustive. The job holder is
expected to accept reasonable alterations and additional tasks of
a similar level that may be necessary. Significant adjustments
may require re-examination under the Job Evaluation Scheme
and shall be discussed in the first instance with the job holder.
An ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence
through the medium of English or (where specified in Wales)
Welsh.
Behaviours
• Leadership
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together
• Managing a Quality Service
Strengths
It is advised strengths are chosen locally, recommended 4-8.
Essential
Experience
Technical
Requirements
Ability
Minimum
• All candidates are subject to security and identity checks prior to
Eligibility
taking up post.
• All external candidates are subject to 6 months’
probation. Internal candidates are subject to probation if they
have not already served a probationary period within HMPPS.
• All staff are required to declare whether they are a member of a
group or organisation which HMPPS consider to be racist.
Hours of Work
37 hour working week (standard).
(Unsocial Hours)
Allowances
Unsocial Hours Working will be confirmed by the Recruiting
Manager and only paid where applicable:
Unsocial Hours Working
This role requires working regular unsocial hours and a payment
at the current approved organisation rate will be made in addition
to your basic pay to recognise this.
Unsocial hours are those hours outside 0700 - 1900hrs Monday
to Friday and include working evenings, nights, weekends and
Bank/Public Holidays.
OR-JES-639 JD B3 M : Instructor v12.0