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About the Role

This is a non-operational job focused on providing supervision to prisoners within waste management and recycling environments. The role involves transferring knowledge and skills to prisoners for safe and effective waste collection and disposal, while maintaining workshop and prisoner management responsibilities. The position contributes to sentence planning and reducing reoffending by applying safer custody practices and ensuring security, good order, and hygiene within workshops.

Responsibilities

Supervise and escort prisoners to collect, process, and dispose of waste/recycling from all areas within the establishment.
Comply with all Health and Safety policies, procedures, and legislation to ensure a safe working environment.
Accurately record all waste removed from site, including weight, cost, and revenue.
Contribute to control measures for restricted waste and shredding of confidential waste.
Monitor, maintain, and account for all workshop tools, equipment, and raw materials, ensuring safety and security.
Open and manage the workshop area, issue tools, supervise and escort prisoner work parties, and oversee work quality.
Participate in the selection, induction, and training of prisoners for the workshop, covering health and safety, COSHH, machinery and tool usage, WMU objectives, workshop discipline, manual handling, and PPE.
Provide tailored support, learning, and training to prisoners, set work schedules, and manage targets and quality standards.
Supervise and control prisoners to ensure their safety, security, motivation, discipline, appraisal, and development, including conducting searches.
Contribute to prisoner reports, parole and sentence planning, and complete relevant documentation.
Manage workshop resources by requesting materials, maintaining stock levels, logging attendance, approving prisoner hours and wages, and providing administrative support.
Maintain effective communication and security by operating radio equipment, supporting local contingency plans, escorting technical contractors, acting as banksman, and driving estates vehicles and plant equipment as required.

Requirements

May have completed manual handling, basic security awareness, and be trained in break-away techniques.
Demonstrate basic knowledge of the Waste Hierarchy.
Understand Waste Permits and Exemptions.
Will comply with relevant Health & Safety policies and regulations such as COSHH.
IT Skills
Basic Maths
Basic English
Ability to fulfill all spoken aspects of the role with confidence through the medium of English or Welsh.
All candidates are subject to security and identity checks prior to taking up post.
All external candidates are subject to a 6-month probation period.
All staff are required to declare whether they are a member of a group or organisation which the HMPPS considers to be racist.

Skills

Waste management
Recycling
Prisoner supervision
Knowledge transfer
Health and Safety compliance
COSHH
Manual handling
Basic security awareness
Break-away techniques
Waste Hierarchy
Waste Permits
Waste Exemptions
IT Skills
Basic Maths
Basic English
Radio equipment operation
Driving estates vehicles and plant equipment

Location

London

Work Type

Full Time
Hybrid Working

Experience Level

AO (Civil Service Grade)

Salary/Compensations

£32,367 - £34,080

Benefits

Annual Leave
Bank, Public and Privilege Holidays
Pension scheme options
Work Life Balance initiatives
Season Ticket Advance
Training and development opportunities
Security and diversity training
Individual induction programme

About the Company

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) offers Hybrid Working arrangements where business need allows.
MoJ is 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.
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.
Civil Service departments are expected to explore redeployment opportunities before making an individual redundant.
The MoJ is committed, as part of the Redeployment Interview Scheme, to providing opportunities to those who are 'at risk of redundancy'.

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.
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found.
A Great Place to Work for Veterans: 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.
Redeployment Interview Scheme: Civil Service departments are expected to explore redeployment opportunities before making an individual redundant. The MoJ is committed, as part of the Redeployment Interview Scheme, to providing opportunities to those who are 'at risk of redundancy'.