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Job Description (JD)
Band 6
Group Profile - Activities Unit Manager (AUM)
Job Description - AUM: Industries
Document Ref.
OR-JES-088-JD-B6 : AUM : Industries v12.0
Document Type
Management
Version
12.0
Classification
Official
Date of Issue
13 June 2025
Status
Baselined
Produced by
Job Evaluation Assurance and Support Team
Authorised by
Reward Team
JD Evidence
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Job Description
Job Title
AUM : Industries
Group Profile
Activities Unit Manager
Organisation
First Line Management
Level
Band
6
Overview of the
This is a management job in an establishment.
job
All staff have a responsibility to safeguard and promote the
welfare of children. The post holder must undertake the
appropriate level of training and is responsible for ensuring that
they understand and work within the safeguarding policies of the
organisation.
Summary
The job holder will be responsible for managing the day-to-day
operations of Prison Industries within the establishment. This will
involve managing the annual Industries budget; ensuring all
workshop manufacturing and work activities are compliant with
industry standards; and managing quality assurance processes to
ensure customer satisfaction and timely contract delivery.
The job holder will work with other managers within the prison to
develop and enable opportunities for prisoners to learn and apply
functional skills in a work setting and develop transferable skills
that link to the local labour market and to employment on release.
This is a non-operational job with line management
responsibilities.
Responsibilities,
The job holder will be required to carry out the following
Activities and
responsibilities, activities and duties:
Duties
• Manage the financial needs of industries within the
establishment, including the management of the annual
budget, ensure income generation targets are met, driving
supplier performance and generate new customer contracts
for independent workshops.
• Manage the operations of Industries within the establishment,
including ensuring the good management of all materials, and
that all activities are consistent and compliant with
commercial manufacturing standards (ISO).
• Provide quality assurance within the Industries function,
including to ensue HMPPS standards and Service Delivery
Indicators (SDIs) are implemented, training materials/learning
resources are accessible to prisoners, and prisoner
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allocations are suitable to maintain commercial standards
and production quotas.
• Provide leadership, support and guidance to all
Instructional/support staff within Industries including
managing staff performance, ensure all B4 Instructional
officers are qualified or actively working towards their Level 4
Qualification (or equivalent) in their stated work/management
area.
• Work in partnership with the Learning and Skills manager to
implement the strategic vision of the Head of Education,
Skills and Work, enabling a golden thread between skills
developed in Industries, long-term learning and employability
outcomes, whilst embedding functional skills and other
elements of the curriculum/learning within
workshop/manufacturing processes.
• Work in partnership with the Learning, Skills and Employment
Manager to prepare for inspections, including, but not
exclusively, Ofsted/Estyn/ HM Inspectorate of Prisons
(HMIP), and own actions resulting from inspections in respect
of Industries.
• Collaborate with the Prison Employment Lead and other
employment stakeholders to ensure Prison Industries forms
an effective part of the prisoner pathway into further
education, vocational training or employment on release,
actively promoting and equipping prisoners to progress on
their Prison employment journey, whilst identifying work
ready prisoners entering their resettlement phase.
• Work in partnership with New Futures Network Regional
Broker and Prison Employment Lead to establish and
maintain recruitment pipelines from Prison Industries into a
range of industrial sectors/local labour markets, mirroring
community-based working practices to properly prepare and
equip prison leavers for employment on release.
• Ensure prisoners are appropriately supervised, inducted,
trained, deployed and paid within the industries workshops
and that discipline, safer custody and Health and Safety
practices are maintained at all times.
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.
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Behaviours
• Making Effective Decisions
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together
• Managing a Quality Service
Strengths
It is advised strengths are chosen locally, recommended 4-8.
Essential
• The job holder will have experience in industry or commercial
Experience
production environment.
Technical
• Will need to keep up to date of knowledge/working practices in
Requirements
areas of expertise.
• Qualified to level 4 or above including business management
modules.
• Awareness of current ISO9001 Standard or an equivalent
quality management system, and have a broad understanding
of Health and Safety requirements in an industrial setting.
Internal applicants
All newly promoted staff to the following Band 6 first line manager
roles (Activities Unit Manager, Facilities and Services Unit
Manager, Facilities and Services Business Manager, Programme
Manager, Specialist Treatment Manager or Equality Advisor) in
Establishments will be expected to complete the New Manager
Programme on Civil Service Learning within three years of
promotion.
Staff that have mapped or re-graded to Band 6 who have
previously worked at an equivalent level will not be required to
undertake the qualification.
External applicants
All external staff joining as a Band 6 Activities Unit Manager,
Facilities and Services Unit Manager, Facilities and Services
Business Manager, Programme Manager, Specialist Treatment
Manager or Equality Advisor in an Establishment will be expected
to complete the New Manager Programme on Civil Service
Learning within three years.
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.
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Hours of Work
37 hour working week.
(Unsocial Hours)
Allowances
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