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Job Description (JD)
Band 4
Group Profile: Specialist Production Instructor
(SPI)
Job Description: SPI: Vehicle Maintenance and
Valeting
Document Ref.
OR-JES-2847-JD-B4: SPI: Vehicle Maintenance and
Valeting v2.0
Document Type
Management
Version
2.0
Classification
Official
Date of Issue
18th 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
SPI: Vehicle Maintenance and Valeting
Group Profile
Specialist Production Instructor
Organisation
Delivery
Level
Band
4
Overview of the
This is a non-operational instructional job in an establishment.
job
Summary
The job holder will be responsible for providing supervision,
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 job holder will ensure that all
services are provided to a high standard and that security and
control is maintained at all times. The job holder will be able to
teach prisoners towards achieving nationally recognised
qualifications and 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 Mentor: 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 no line
management responsibilities. This role is non-rotational.
Responsibilities,
The job holder will be required to carry out the following
Activities and
responsibilities, activities and duties:
Duties
• May participate in the selection process of prisoners for the
workshop/area of work and take a pronounce lead in
recruiting and dismissing from the workshop based on
performance, attendance and conduct.
• Deliver training to prisoners in vehicle maintenance and
valeting to cover both the establishment’s needs and
aspirations in working towards gaining industry recognised
accreditations.
• Inducting prisoners and training them in aspects such as
health and safety, Control of Substance Hazardous to health
(COSHH), machinery and tools usage.
• Set work schedules and manage targets/quality standards,
maintaining delivery of contractual arrangements.
• Assessing and evaluating skills of prisoners up to national
qualification standards.
• Undertake the registration, supervision, monitoring,
assessment and accreditation of learners in accordance with
awarding body requirements.
• Maintain awarding body quality standards and contribute
towards internal and external verification as required.
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• 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).
• Conducting a metal detector scan or rub down search of
prisoners attending and leaving their own workshops.
• 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.
• 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 and
undertake planned maintenance programme on machinery.
• Contribute to prisoner reports including parole and sentence
planning.
• Completing regime monitoring information and update
prisoner training records.
• Contribute to Health and Safety risk assessments relating to
the workshop/area of work and specialist areas.
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.
Civil Service Success Profile Criteria
Behaviours
• Making Effective Decisions
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together
• Managing a Quality Service
• Developing Self and Others
Strengths
We recommend you choose 4 to 8 strengths locally.
Experience
• Must have relevant work experience in a valeting and vehicle
maintenance environment.
• Preferable for candidate to have some supervisory
experience.
• Should have experience of using industrial standard
machinery and equipment.
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Technical
• Currently hold or be prepared to work towards formal
requirements
qualifications in valeting.
• Staff will have or be willing to work towards a teaching
qualification such as Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong
Learning Sector (PTTLS).
• Will be qualified to deliver WAMITAB qualification in this area
or willing to achieve this qualification within 6 months of
appointment to this role.
• Currently hold or be prepared to work towards WAMITAB
qualifications.
• May be a qualified NVQ assessor or be prepared to work
towards qualifications.
• 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.
Ability
• Basic English
• Basic Maths
• IT Skills
Minimum
Please do not alter this box
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.
Hours of Work
37 hour working week
(Unsocial Hours)
Allowances
Unsocial Hours- TBC by recruiting manager
The job may require working unsocial hours and a payment at the
current approved organisation rate will be made in addition to basic
salary 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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