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About the Role

HMPPS is an executive agency of the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) responsible for managing prison and probation services in England and Wales. Its mission is to help prison and probation services work together to manage offenders through their sentences. HMPPS aims to rehabilitate individuals in its care through employment, skills and education activities. The job holder will be responsible for providing supervision, knowledge and skills to prisoners in a specialist work area so they can improve their skills and future employment prospects with a view to reducing reoffending.

Responsibilities

Carry out a full range of horticultural activities, giving instruction to prisoners on all land-based activity duties including use of machinery.
Ensure good horticultural practice.
Maintain the establishments grounds and conservation areas including maintenance of lawns, ponds, water features, hard and soft landscaping (including laying paving and turf) and external grounds to the establishment including woodland (where appropriate).
Deliver the relevant actions from the MoJ's Biodiversity Strategy and to develop and create the establishments conservation areas.
Undertake small project work as advised.
Supervise prisoners in the work area, ensuring that work targets are met, discipline is maintained, and the work area remains a safe and positive working environment at all times.
Inducting prisoners and training them in aspects such as Health and Safety, Control of Substance Hazardous to Health (COSHH), machinery and tools usage within your area of work.
Accept reasonable alterations and additional tasks of a similar level that may be necessary.

Requirements

Must have relevant work experience in Horticulture, including use of horticultural machinery/tractors.
Must be conversant with grounds maintenance practices in areas of grass maintenance, turf culture, drainage, soil husbandry, areas of ornamental horticulture including aquatics, bedding, perennial, tree and shrub culture and a working knowledge of different types of habitats and the support each provides for: insects, creatures and animals.
Must possess a full current United Kingdom (UK) driving license.
An ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence through the medium of English or (where specified in Wales) Welsh.
All candidates are subject to security and identity checks prior to taking up post.
All external candidates are subject to 6 months probation.
All staff are required to declare whether they are a member of a group or organisation which the HMPPS considers to be racist.

Skills

Horticulture
Grounds maintenance
Biodiversity Strategy
Health and Safety
Control of Substance Hazardous to Health (COSHH)

Location

Feltham

Work Type

Full Time
Permanent
Hybrid Working

Experience Level

Supervisory experience is desirable.

Education Level

Level 3 qualification or equivalent in horticulture
PA1 PA6 spray certification
Recognised workplace assessor qualification

Salary/Compensations

£37,872

Benefits

Annual Leave
Bank, Public and Privilege Holidays
Pension
Work Life Balance
Season Ticket Advance
Training

About the Company

HMPPS is an executive agency of the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) responsible for managing prison and probation services in England and Wales.
HMPPS welcomes part-time, flexible and job-sharing working patterns, where they meet the demands of the role and business needs.
The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found.
The "Making the Civil Service a Great Place to work for veterans" initiative includes a guaranteed interview scheme to those who meet the minimum criteria to provide eligible former members of the Armed Forces with opportunities to secure rewarding jobs.
Civil Service departments are expected to explore redeployment opportunities before making an individual redundant.
This job is broadly open to 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 of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS), 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.

Equal Opportunity

As a Disability Confident employer, MoJ are committed to providing everyone with the opportunity to demonstrate their skills, talent and abilities, by making adjustments throughout all elements of the recruitment process and in the workplace.
MoJ are able to offer an interview to disabled candidates who meet the minimum selection criteria, except in a limited number of campaigns.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles.
Should you feel that the recruitment process has breached the recruitment principles you are able to raise a formal complaint in the following order To Transformative Business Services (0345 241 5358 (Monday to Friday 8am - 6pm) or e mail moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@resourcing.soprasteria.co.uk); To Ministry of Justice Resourcing team (resourcing-management-office@justice.gov.uk); To the Civil Service Commission (details available here)
The "Making the Civil Service a Great Place to work for veterans" initiative includes a guaranteed interview scheme to those who meet the minimum criteria to provide eligible former members of the Armed Forces with opportunities to secure rewarding jobs.
MoJ is able to offer an interview to eligible candidates who meet the minimum selection criteria, except in a limited number of campaigns.
Candidates will not be eligible for the Redeployment Interview Scheme if they are applying on promotion.