The Role
Key accountabilities
* Plan, organise and deliver a vocational competency-based curriculum up to Level 2 using awarding body standards / criteria.
* Under direction of Manager/Team Leader contribute to Schemes of Work and develop lesson plans to ensure compliance with curriculum best practice and quality targets
* Contribute to Individual Leaning Plans and the processes for additional learner support
* Ensure the safeguarding of learners
* Work collaboratively with Functional skills tutors/Learning Support Practitioners to support literacy, language and numeracy skills within the programme.
* Ensure that learner records are accurate and maintained in line with data protection and PeoplePlus policies.
* Compliance with PeoplePlus & stakeholder policies and procedures.
* Timely and accurate completion and submission on funding and compliance activity (e.g. learner enrolment)
* Participate in continual professional development activities to ensure skills and qualifications are in line with sector best practice and third-party requirements.
* Signposting learners to other relevant agencies
* Contribute to the required awarding body Quality Assurance arrangements i.e. IQA and moderation as required.
* Ensure compliance with Health & Safety legislation and prison security requirements.
* Contributing to third party reporting procedures.
Qualifications, experience and expertise
Essential
* Have at least 2 years’ experience in the relevant vocational area, mechanics engineering or cycle mechanics
* Willing to gain PTLLS within 6 months
* Commitment to gain a subject specific qualification to allow them to train to Level 2, within 2 years
* Commitment to gain an assessor award required by relevant Awarding Bodies, within one year
* Hold at least a Level 1 qualification in Literacy and Numeracy or be willing to commit to gaining the qualification(s) within 1 year
* Gain, hold and maintain a clean, enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check
Desirable
* Hold a qualification to allow the delivery of accreditation in the relevant vocational area to Level 2, mechanics, engineering or cycle mechanics.
* Hold an Assessor award required by Awarding Bodies, if relevant
* Hold PTLLS qualification
* To hold or commit to gain an Internal Verifier award within 1 year (dependent upon course accreditation requirements)
* Hold at least a Level 2 qualification in Literacy and Numeracy or be willing to commit to gaining the qualification(s) within 1 year
* Gain/hold and maintain a clean, enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
Who We Are
Here are PeoplePlus, we are committed to transforming the lives of people with convictions through our work in prisons.
Our services have been designed to tackle the underlying causes of offending behaviour so people can make positive changes to their lives.
With more than 500 people working to support people with convictions in custody and in the community, we bring passion, experience and innovation to public sector rehabilitation services.
We also work with specialist partner organisations to help people move away from their past and look forward to a brighter future.
All of our services are designed in partnership with the people who we’re trying to help and away from our direct work with people serving their sentences, we’re working hard to change attitudes towards people who can often be tarnished unfairly following criminal convictions. Our Social Recruitment Framework brings together organisations to tackle any pre-conceived ideas about hiring people who have previously been involved in crime.
We also work with employers on the Ban the Box initiative to support fair and equal recruitment processes and have engaged industry to influence our employer-led curriculum delivered to our learners.
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
30 days annual leave for Teaching roles / 25 days for support roles
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
"What I love about working in a prison environment is that no 2 days are the same. You are a number of different roles such as counsellor, adviser and at times the person that makes a difference in that individual’s life.
There are also good career opportunities for an individual. I started as a supply tutor and I am now an assistant manager. At PeoplePlus you are given the opportunities to gain new skills and qualifications to enable you to be the best version of yourself."
"I have been lucky enough to work in a number of roles within PeoplePlus within the prison education sector, each of which has provided variety, challenge, and immense job satisfaction. The company recognises, values, and rewards the hard work of its employees, providing great professional development and career progression opportunities as well as a great range of perks and support for wellbeing."