HMP Winchester’s education department have a new vacancy for a Student Support & Recruitment Worker to act as an ambassador, promoting education to maximise the recruitment of students onto learning programmes and supporting their learning goals within the prison.
As a Student Support & Recruitment Worker, you will provide appropriate guidance to students when selecting courses and support the education allocation process by delivering a range of ICT/paper based initial assessment and screening assessments. You will also be confident in promoting the benefits of education and be actively involved in all aspects of student recruitment and programme marketing, working in partnership with HMPPS and other agencies to develop and deliver support services for our learners.
Location: HMP Winchester
Hours: 37 hours per week, 52 weeks per year
Salary: £14,910 - £19,525, per annum
Closing date: 27th September 2018
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About HMP Winchester:
HMP/YOI Winchester is a busy Category B/C Local prison housing both sentenced and remand prisoners from the age of 18. The Education Department delivers relevant short courses that help prepare learners for employment upon release in three different Education areas in the prison.
Courses include: English and Maths Functional Skills (Entry 1 to Level 2), ESOL, ICT, Art, Cookery, Employability Skills, and Barbering. We also work closely with our prison colleagues to provide embedded Employability skills in the prison workshops for Carpentry, Recycling, Textiles and Enterprise Services.
The Education department has recently started working with external employers to provide employment opportunities upon release to the workers in the main prison kitchen who engage in the Hospitality and Catering Academy programme provided by the College in partnership with Premier Inn and also those keen to show their potential through a fast track employment course link3ed to Timpsons. This is a model which we hope to further expand in the future.
In the department we believe the opportunity to gain skills and knowledge will help our learners to end their offending behaviour. We engage the hardest to reach learners and encourage them to take pride in their own education and self-development. As a department, we endeavour to inspire learners to achieve. This enthusiasm for learning and desire to help our learners was reflected on the grade 2 that the department received on the last Ofsted inspection and our continually high success rates.
As a successful candidate, you will:
Good basic general education including GCSE (or) equivalent) in Maths and English at Grade C or above.
Proven experience of presenting to groups.
Good IT skills with experience of word processing, spread sheets, databases, email and internet systems.
Accuracy and precision in written presentation.
Sensitive to the complexities of prisons or closed institutions and have the ability to work positively within the inherent restraints.
A willingness and ability to assume responsibility and to see through detailed tasks.
Good communication skills both written and verbal.
Commitment to students and students’ success.
Able to motivate self and others.
Have thinking ability: able to plan, communicate and problem solve effectively.
Good organisational skills.
Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
The requirement of this role is to work across the whole prison estate, on all wings where education is delivered.
More about the College:
Milton Keynes College is proud to be an open and inclusive general Further Education College welcoming learners of all levels and delivering an exceptional educational experience. The College offers a broad range of qualifications with more than 3,000 16 – 18-year-old full-time students studying traditional A Levels, vocational courses, apprenticeships and Higher Education. In addition, the College delivers employability and key skills training programmes to 3,000 people in local community learning centres and is one of the largest providers of Offender Learning in England, working with 27 prisons across the East Midlands, South Central and West Midlands.
Milton Keynes College is a committed safer recruitment employer. We take extreme care in ensuring the safety and welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All positions therefore undergo a stringent vetting process to include DBS for all positions.
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