Activities Unit Manager (AUM) - HMP Wymott (Ref: 16255)

Job summary

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Job description

Overview of the job

This is a management job in an establishment.

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, Activities and Duties

The job holder will be required to carry out the following responsibilities, activities and 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

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.

Person specification

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Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Communicating and Influencing
• Making Effective Decisions
• Changing and Improving
• Leadership

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Experience in Quality Assurance (ISO9001)
• Health & Safety

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £39,803, HM Prison & Probation Service contributes £11,530 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

• Access to learning and development
• A working environment that supports a range of flexible working options to enhance your work life balance
• A working culture which encourages inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
• Annual Leave
• Public Holidays
• Season Ticket Advance

For more information about the recruitment process, benefits and allowances and answers to general queries, please click the below link which will direct you to our Candidate Information Page.

Link: https://justicejobs.tal.net/vx/candidate/cms/About%20the%20MOJ

Things you need to know

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Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths, Experience and Technical skills.https://justicejobs.tal.net/vx/candidate/cms/About%20the%20MOJ

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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Working for the Civil Service

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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see theCivil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : SSCL Recruitment Enquiries Team
• Email : moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@resourcing.soprasteria.co.uk
• Telephone : 0345 241 5358

Recruitment team

• Email : moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@resourcing.soprasteria.co.uk

Further information

Appointment to the Civil Service is governed by the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles. If you feel a department has breached the requirement of the Recruitment Principles and would like to raise this, please contact SSCL (Moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@gov.sscl.com) in the first instance. If the role has been advertised externally (outside of the Civil Service) and you are not satisfied with the response, you may bring your complaint to the Commission. For further information on bringing a complaint to the Civil Service Commission please visit their web pages: http://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/civil-service-recruitm…

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