Specialist Production Instructor (Manufacturing)

Employment is expected to commence no sooner than November 2026. Successful candidates must demonstrate basic IT, Maths and English skills.

Responsibilities

• Participate in the selection process of prisoners for the workshop.
• Induct prisoners to the workshop and train them in health and safety, COSHH, and machinery and tool usage.
• Support prisoners and tailor learning and training to individual needs.
• Set work schedules and manage targets and quality standards, maintaining delivery of contractual arrangements.
• Assess and evaluate prisoners’ skills up to national qualification standards.
• Supervise and maintain discipline of prisoners, responsible for performance, motivation, discipline, appraisal and development.
• Maintain regular communications via radio net in accordance with the Local Security Strategy.
• Open and complete Assessment Care in Custody and Teamwork (ACCT) forms.
• Conduct metal detector scans or rub‑down searches of prisoners attending and leaving 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, maintain security of areas, log any faults, and undertake planned maintenance of machinery.
• Contribute to prisoner reports, including parole and sentence planning.
• Complete regime monitoring information and update training records.
• Contribute to health and safety risk assessments related to the workshop.
• Request materials and estimate usage to meet work targets.
• Initiate product development reviews to maintain output levels and provide variety of work for prisoners.
• Participate in self‑audit and in achieving Service Delivery Indicators.
• Complete administration activities to support the smooth running of the workshop.

Key Behaviours

• Making Effective Decisions
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together
• Managing a Quality Service
• Developing Self and Others

Experience and Technical Requirements

• Preferable supervisory experience.
• Experience using industrial standard machinery and equipment.
• Commitment to achieving or already possessing a Level 3 qualification in the specialism or equivalent experience.
• Possibility of being a qualified NVQ assessor.
• For work with young people, must successfully complete a suitability assessment.

Additional Requirements

• Regular unsocial hours (outside 07:00‑19:00 hrs Monday‑Friday) with a 20 % additional pay.
• Hybrid working may be available where business needs allow; subject to discussion and review.
• Standard full‑time working hours of 37 hrs per week (excluding unpaid breaks).

Security & Equality

• All candidates are subject to security and identity checks before appointment.
• All external candidates are subject to a 6‑month probationary period; internal candidates if no prior probation.
• All staff must declare membership in any organisation that the MoJ considers racist.
• The MoJ is a Disability Confident employer and commits to providing reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process and workplace.
• All staff are required to participate in security and diversity training and complete an individual induction programme.

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