Land Based Activities – Specialist Production Instructor (SPI): Commercial Horticulture – HMP Onley

Overview

This is a non-operational instructional job in an establishment. The job holder will be responsible for the day‑to‑day maintenance, harvesting and cultivating of the establishment’s gardens, ensuring protected cropping is grown and harvested to the highest standards and assessing accredited vocational qualifications to prisoners.

Responsibilities

• 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 tasks 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 selection of prisoners, induction, health and safety training, work scheduling, assessment of prisoners’ skills, discipline, security reporting, product quality assurance, attendance logging and tool checks.

Behaviours

• Making Effective Decisions
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together
• Managing a Quality Service
• Developing Self and Others
• Must have experience in a supervisory role.

Technical Requirements

• Staff must hold a Level 3 qualification in horticulture or a recognised horticultural industry equivalent, or be trained to the appropriate level within two years.
• Holding PA2 and PA6 pesticide qualifications is 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 licence to enable tractor and other vehicle driving operations.
• When transferring to a Young Persons establishment, the job holder must successfully undertake an assessment to demonstrate suitability to work with Young People.

Ability

• IT Skills
• Basic Maths
• Basic English

Nationality

• 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 with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme
• Nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme
• 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

EEO Statement

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, following the Civil Service Commission’s recruitment principles.

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