TEMPORARY SUPPORT ROLES Location: HMP Elmley, Isle of Sheppey, ME12 4DZ Hours: Part time / Variable – minimum hours outlined below Salary: £15.50 per hour Reporting To: Education Manager IN SHORT Do you like working in a challenging but rewarding environment where each day is different and time flies? Have you ever thought of a career in Prison Education? Milton Keynes College Prison Services Team at HMP Elmley are seeking efficient and flexible individuals to help support their education provision. You will be a team player, with a high standard of verbal and written communication. There are various duties for non-teaching staff, vital to supporting the learners to achieve and the staff to meet their expected delivery. The potential support roles that would require covering fall within our admin and LDD (learning difficulties and disabilities) teams. These duties would include filing, paperwork, data handling, working with awarding bodies to register learners and claim certificates, supporting action plans and induction screening and more. In terms of working pattern/cover hours - these would fall between Monday to Thursday - 8 hours for full days (8:15 to 16:45 with a 45-minute lunch) and Friday mornings - 4 hours (8:15 to 12:15), so you would need to be available within these times. If you are organised, empathetic and patient – able to complete administrative duties and reports to a high standard, and interested in working within prison education, then get in touch today ABOUT HMP Elmley… HMP Elmley is a Category B local and remand prison, holding approximately 1,200 adult male sentenced offenders. HMP Elmley is the largest of three prisons beside the village of Eastchurch. It sits alongside HMP Swaleside (Long term High Security) and HMP Standford Hill (Open D-cat) as part of the Sheppey prisons cluster. HMP Elmley’s focus is firmly fixed on reducing reoffending and preventing future victims of crime by preparing offenders for their release through accredited intervention programmes, skill and vocational based training and education, in a pro social environment. Courses at HMP Elmley include Maths, English, ESOL, Peer Mentoring, Barista and Food Safety. A bespoke Projects course supports specific cohorts and hard to reach learners, whilst there are dedicated inclusion practitioners, induction facilitators, a reading and engagement specialist and pastoral lead and much more. The education delivery hours are Monday to Thursday 08:50am – 11.20am, 13.50pm – 4.20pm and on Fridays 8.50am – 11.20am, with staff working on-site 8:15am – 4:45pm each day Monday to Thursday and 8:15am – 1:45pm on Fridays. Class sizes typically range from 8-12 learners. There is free parking available in a secure staff parking area or commuter access is reached via bus routes with the closest train station being Sheerness.