Job Description (JD)
Band 4
Group Profile - Specialist Production Instructor (SPI)
Job Description - SPI: Commercial Horticulture
Document Ref.
OR-JES-246-JD-B4 : SPI : Commercial Horticulture v8.0
Document Type
Management
Version
8.0
Classification
Official
Date of Issue
20 November 2020
Status
Baselined
Produced by
Job Evaluation Assurance and Support Team
Authorised by
Reward Team
JD Evidence
OR-JES-246-JD-B4 : SPI : Commercial Horticulture v8.0
Job Description
Job Title
SPI : Commercial Horticulture
Group Profile
Specialist Production Instructor
Organisation Level
Delivery
Band
4
Overview of the job
This is a non-operational instructional job in an establishment.
Summary
The job holder will be responsible for the day-to-day maintenance, harvesting and
cultivating of the establishments gardens, ensuring protected cropping is grown and
harvested to the highest standards and assess accredited vocational qualifications to
prisoners.
This is a non-operational job in an establishment with no line management
responsibilities.
Responsibilities,
The job holder will be required to carry out the following responsibilities, activities
Activities and Duties
and duties:
? Maintain correct field-scale soil husbandry, ensuring all stages of crop
development are followed in accordance with good horticultural practice.
? Maintain the growing plant/crop to ensure optimum development and/or
cropping, ensuring that the plants needs are fully met.
? Maintain effective biological pest control measures and any necessary chemical
crop protection programmes.
? Resolve any prisoner work issues, setting task to match their ability whilst
ensuring safety and production is maintained at all times.
? Ensure produce grown on-site is prepared and packaged appropriately, taking
into consideration appropriate labelling, grading and overall presentation.
? Maintain sports fields as per agreed plan with both the Farms and Gardens
Manager and PE Department.
? Carry out preventative pest control measures across area of responsibility.
Undertake other instructor tasks including:
? May participate in the selection process of prisoners for the workshop/area of
work.
? 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.
? Provide support for prisoners where required; tailor learning and training
requirements to individual needs.
? Set work schedules and manage targets/quality standards, maintaining delivery
of contractual arrangements.
? Assess and evaluate skills of prisoners up to national qualification standards.
? 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).
? 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.
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? Will conduct a metal detector scan or rub down search of prisoners attending and
leaving their own workshops.
? Provide quality assurance against product specification.
? Log attendance and approve prisoner hours worked and wages including
recording piece work where appropriate.
? Carry out fabric and tool checks of workshops and maintain security of areas,
logging any tool/equipment faults. Undertake planned maintenance programme
on machinery.
? Contribute to prisoner reports including parole and sentence planning.
? Complete regime monitoring information and update prisoner training records.
? Contribute to Health and Safety risk assessments relating to the workshop/work
of area and specialist areas.
? Request materials and estimate usage in order to meet work targets.
? Initiate product development reviews to maintain workshop/area of work output
levels, and to provide variety of work and experience for prisoners.
? Participate in self-audit and in achieving Service Delivery Indicators (SDIs).
? Complete administration activities to support the smooth running of the
workshop.
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.
Essential Experience
? Must have experience in a supervisory role.
? Must be conversant with soil and growing medium husbandry, crop
protection, crop production technology, plant protection technology options,
preparation of fresh produce for sale, including: grading, labelling and
presentation.
? Should have experience of using industrial standard machinery and
equipment.
Technical
? Staff must hold a Level 3 qualification in horticulture or a recognised
Requirements
horticultural industry equivalent, or be trained to the appropriate level
within two years.
? Holding PA2 and PA6 pesticide qualifications would be a requirement.
? Must have current knowledge of all relevant Health and Safety and Control
of Substance Hazardous to health (COSHH) regulations.
? May be required to be an accredited Assessor.
? Must hold a full current United Kingdom (UK) driving license to enable
tractor and other vehicle driving operations in the course of the post holder’s
duties, in addition to prisoner instruction duties on farm vehicles.
? When transferring to a Young Persons establishment the job holder will be
required to successfully undertake an assessment to demonstrate suitability
to work with Young People.
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Ability
? IT Skills
? Basic Maths
? Basic English
Minimum Eligibility
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? 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.
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 17% payment will be paid in addition to your basic pay to
recognise this. Unsocial hours are those hours outside 0700 ‐ 1900hrs Monday to
Friday and including working evenings nights, weekends and Bank/Public holidays
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Success Profile
Strengths
Behaviours
It is advised strengths
Ability
Experience
Technical
are chosen locally,
recommended 4-8
Making Effective Decisions
IT Skills
Must have experience in a
Staff must hold a Level 3 qualification in
supervisory role.
horticulture or a recognised horticultural
industry equivalent, or be trained to the
appropriate level within two years.
Communicating and Influencing
Basic Maths
Must be conversant with soil
Holding PA2 and PA6 pesticide qualifications
and growing medium
would be a requirement.
husbandry, crop protection,
crop production technology,
plant protection technology
options, preparation of fresh
produce for sale, including:
grading, labelling and
presentation.
Working Together
Basic English
Should have experience of
Must have current knowledge of all relevant
using industrial standard
Health and Safety and Control of Substance
machinery and equipment.
Hazardous to health (COSHH) regulations.
Managing a Quality Service
May be required to be an accredited Assessor.
Developing Self and Others
Must hold a full current United Kingdom (UK)
driving license to enable tractor and other
vehicle driving operations in the course of the
post holder’s duties, in addition to prisoner
instruction duties on farm vehicles.
When transferring to a Young Persons establishment
the job holder will be required to successfully
undertake an assessment to demonstrate suitability
to work with Young People.
OR-JES-246-JD-B4 : SPI : Commercial Horticulture v8.0