The Role
Are you a skilled instructor or hands-on professional looking for a varied and rewarding role? Do you thrive in practical, hands-on environments where no two days are the same?
At HMP Millsike, we’re looking for a Cover Workshop Facilitator to step in and lead workshops across multiple industries, ensuring that operations continue smoothly during periods of staff absence. This is a key role in maintaining structured, skill-building activities for prisoners, supporting their rehabilitation and future employability.
Working Hours:
This is a full-time role, 38.5 hours per week, with the following schedule:
* Four days per week: 8:00 AM to 5:30 PM
* One half-day per week: either 8:00 AM to 12:30 PM or 1:00 PM to 5:30 PM
Internally this role is known as an Industry Cover Instructor
What You’ll Be Doing:
* Lead & Train – Deliver practical, hands-on training across manufacturing, cleaning, waste management, and horticulture workshops.
* Engage & Motivate – Keep prisoners engaged in purposeful activity, supporting their personal and professional development.
* Ensure Safety & Compliance – Conduct risk assessments, maintain tool security, and follow health and safety protocols tailored to each workshop.
* Adapt & Problem-Solve – Seamlessly transition between different workshop environments, ensuring continuity and high standards.
* Record & Report – Maintain accurate attendance records, track learner progress, and contribute to rehabilitation plans .
What We’re Looking For:
* Hands-on experience in a trade, workshop, or vocational training environment (manufacturing, industrial operations, cleaning, waste management, or similar).
* Ability to manage and engage groups, ensuring structure, motivation, and discipline in workshop settings.
* Strong adaptability skills – able to step into different industries and quickly get up to speed.
* Administrative competency – able to log attendance, track outputs, and maintain workshop documentation.
* Commitment to safety & compliance – experience working within health & safety and security protocols is desirable.
Who We Are
Here at People Plus, we make a positive difference to people’s lives – every single day.
As part of The Staffline Group, we use our experience to support hundreds of thousands of people each year.
Our committed teams work across Britain to deliver a range of public services, including employment support, skills training, independent living, prison education, starting a business, and support to help employers grow.
To put it simply, we:
* Support people to find and keep jobs
* Help people to set up their own businesses
* Deliver skills training to further people’s careers
* Work with employers to build a skilled and happy workforce
* Rehabilitate people with convictions
* Tackle the root causes of offending
* Help people to live independently
* Support carers
We are extremely proud to be a Silver accredited Investors in People organisation. This means that at PeoplePlus, the right principles are in place but more than that, it means our people and leaders are making active efforts to make sure that there’s real consistency and everyone in the organisation can feel the effects.
Our Benefits
A paid PeoplePlus Life Event Day each year
25 days annual leave
Cycle to Work scheme
Access to hundreds of discounts via the Additions portal
Employee Assistance Programme
Access to online wellbeing centre
Enhanced Wedding leave
A paid volunteering day each year
Testimonials
"I have worked within PeoplePlus for 6 months now, my team is amazing and full of support. I have been given many opportunities to expand my role and learn new skills, always supported by management and my colleagues."
"PeoplePlus is a great place to work as they care about and support their employees whilst challenging them to grow within the company. The core values contribute effectively to the company culture of honesty, communication and self-improvement enabling staff to be heard and feedback and share opinions in a progressive way. Staff are always empowered to perform and motivated by achievement thereby creating a positive environment within which to support the well-being of others."
"I have loved my time since joining PeoplePlus as an Administrator for the Restart Scheme in Stockton. After a few months I enrolled onto Level 3 HR Support apprenticeship through the internal apprenticeship programme. Since then, I have joined the Contract Assurance team as Compliance officer for the Northeast. I have a great support system within the organisation and have been given many fantastic opportunities to help progress my professional development. "