Job Description (JD)
Band 4
Group Profile - Specialist Production Instructor
(SPI)
Job Description - SPI : Promotional Printed
Products
Document Ref.
OR-JES-3098-JD-B4 : SPI : Promotional Printed
Products v1.0
Document Type
Management
Version
1.0
Classification
Official
Date of Issue
15 March 2023
Status
Baselined
Produced by
Job Evaluation Assurance and Support Team
Authorised by
Reward Team
JD Evidence
OR-JES-3098-JD-B4 : SPI : Promotional Printed Products v1.0
Job Description
Job Title
SPI : Promotional Printed Products
Group Profile
Specialist Production Instructor
Organisation
Delivery
Level
Band
4
Overview of the
The job holder will be responsible for providing supervision,
job
knowledge and skills to prisoners in a specialist workshop so
they can improve their employment prospects on release with a
view to reducing reoffending.
The role will be required to teach prisoners towards achieving
nationally recognised qualifications which may be supported by
external organisations such as local colleges.
This job description is not for use by job holders in basic
assembly/packing workshops, instead Instructor should be used.
However, on an exceptional short term basis job holders can
supervise prisoners in more basic workshops.
This is a non-operational job in an establishment with workshop
and prisoner management responsibilities. The role is non-
rotational.
Summary
The job holder will be committed to prison workshops being
places of structure and discipline. They will provide prisoners
with a work experience that better mirrors the employment
experience outside of prison and which reflects the external
labour market where employers and employees have
obligations, with the possibility of gaining or working towards
nationally recognised qualifications.
The job holder will be committed to interacting with prisoners in a
way that can make a difference and contribute to reducing re-
offending, rehabilitation and increasing desistance opportunities
for prisoners.
The job holder will ensure that all services are provided to a high
standard and that security and control is maintained at all times.
Responsibilities,
The job holder will be required to carry out the following
Activities and
responsibilities, activities and duties:
Duties
• Be committed to a whole prison approach towards a safe,
secure and respectful working environment where Every
Contact Matters. Interacting with prisoners in a way which
can make a difference and contribute to reducing reoffending,
rehabilitation and decreasing desistance opportunities for
prisoners.
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• May participate in the selection process of prisoners for the
workshop/area of work. Taking a more pronounced lead in
recruiting and dismissing prisoners from the workshops
based on performance, attendance and conduct.
• Contribute to workshop employment decisions and prisoner
development needs. Providing the prisoner with an objective
supervisory view on their progress and get them used to
similar types of appraisal upon release.
• 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.
Delivering understanding and consequences of an
employment compact, Industry related regulations para 49.
Responsible for the prisoner compact, to ensure each
prisoner understands and signs the compact and updates
compact as necessary.
• Deliver training to prisoners to enable them to gain nationally
recognised qualifications (NVQs or equivalent) within the
workshop with the assistance of assessors and local
colleges. Provide quality assurance against product
specification.
• Assess and evaluate skills of prisoners up to national
qualifications standards and to complete all relevant
documentation pertaining to the gaining of qualifications,
including signing and completing witness testimonies and
specialist testimonies. Setting work schedules and manage
targets/quality standards, maintaining delivery of contractual
arrangements where required.
• Will especially work closely with resettlement teams and
stakeholders to provide each prisoner with sufficient support
to have employment opportunities upon release from
custody. Contributing to maximising the opportunities for
prisoners to attend work, programmes and purposeful
activity, at times working with new employment providers.
• 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).
• Contribute to prisoner reports including parole and sentence
planning. Opening and completing 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. Complete regime monitoring
information and update prisoner training records. Logging
attendance and approve prisoner hours worked and wages
including recording piece work where appropriate.
• Contribute to Health and Safety risk assessments relating to
the workshop/work of area and specialist areas, carrying out
fabric and tool checks of workshops and maintaining security
of areas, logging any tool/equipment faults. Undertake
planned maintenance programme on machinery with
responsibility for planning and requesting material and
consumables to meet work targets.
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• Participate in self-audit and in achieving Service Delivery
Indicators (SDIs). Completing administration activities to
support the smooth running of the workshop as well as
conducting a metal detector scan or rub down search of
prisoners attending and leaving their own workshops.
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
• Making Effective Decisions
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together
• Managing a Quality Service
• Developing Self and Others
Strengths
It is advised strengths are chosen locally, recommended 4-8.
Experience
• Must have relevant work experience in a production
environment
• Preferable for candidate to have some supervisory experience
• Should have experience of using industrial standard
machinery and equipment
Technical
• Currently hold or be prepared to work towards Level 3 or
Requirements
equivalent in print related production or digital design
• The ability to read, understand and work from technical
specifications
Ability
• IT Skills
• Basic Maths
• Basic English
Minimum
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Eligibility
• All candidates are subject to security and identity checks prior to
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.
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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 as part of the
normal shift commitment 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.
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Success Profile
Strengths
It is advised
Behaviours
Ability
Experience
Technical
strengths are
chosen locally,
recommended 4-8
Making Effective Decisions
IT Skills
Must have relevant work
Currently hold or be prepared
experience in a production
to work towards Level 3 or
environment
equivalent in print related
production or digital design
Communicating and
Basic Maths
Preferable for candidate to
The ability to read, understand
Influencing
have some supervisory
and work from technical
experience
specifications
Working Together
Basic English
Should have experience of
using industrial standard
machinery and equipment
Managing a Quality Service
Developing Self and Others
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