Industries Manager – HMP Stoke Heath (Ref: 4301)

HM Prison and Probation Service; Bromsgrove; On-site; GBP 39,000; Full time

Job description

This position is based at HMYOI Stoke Heath Market Drayton, TF9 2JL

Job Summary

A post has become available for a Band 6 Industries Manager to lead on our existing and new commercial contracts within the prison as well as our gardens and waste management departments. We work in partnership with many organisations to offer purposeful activity to prisoners through a variety of workshops. The successful candidate would also lead on the workshops as part of the new Stoke Heath High Street - a community area of the prison with a vision to mimic a real life High Street. This will support prisoners to reintegrate into society on release.

The job holder will be required to carry out the following responsibilities, activities and duties:

• Responsible for ensuring all staff within Industries provide a respectful, safe decent environment for all prisoners and staff.
• Responsible for advising Senior Management Team (SMT) on industry related areas.
• Review and implement local industries improvement plans and reviewing industries policy annually.
• Responsible for ensuring staff are fully trained and qualified for the activities they are employed in.
• Responsible for setting accreditation targets for the department and monitor targets and progress against them. Visit all areas on a regular basis to check that all required work is being completed to the set standards.
• Responsible for the performance of production workshops both in terms of prisoner occupation, production and sales turn over.
• Responsible for monitoring performance of suppliers against contracts to ensure that contracts are running to time, cost, quality and all contractual requirements of Industry providers operating within the establishment.
• Responsible for ensuring production is scheduled and managed to deliver targets (including income generation levels) and quality standards and maintains delivery of contractual arrangements.
• Ensure all industries information and IT systems are kept up to date.
• Responsible for managing the income generation targets and compliance within the work area, verifying and signing off documentation as appropriate.
• Contribute towards developing and implementing an employment strategy for the Prison working alongside partners in the delivery of employment training, advice and guidance on release.
• Seeking local commercial work to fill free production capacity by way of preparing quotations for external stakeholders for potential products to be manufactured within industries.
• Manage successful private sector partnerships, Colleges and Training Centres and assist in developing links with internal/external Agencies with a view to prisoner employment and resettlement.
• Responsible for ensuring all materials are ordered, received, logged, stored, utilised and disposed of appropriately within the areas of activity managed.
• Responsible for ensuring prisoners are appropriately supervised, inducted, trained and deployed and paid within the industries and that discipline, safer custody and Health and Safety practices are maintained at all times.
• Responsible for the efficient and economical use of industries transport.
• Managing stock and supervising the annual stock taking process.
• Responsible for ensuring the delivery national accredited qualifications and skills to prisoners where appropriate.
• Responsible for the provision of management / reports to HQ as required. Undertake other management tasks including:
• Manage devolved budgets in accordance with the financial procedures outlined in the budget delegation.
• Responsible for the management of all staff within their area. This includes staff performance, development and annual appraisal through to sickness absence management.
• Ensure all HMPPS standards and Service Delivery Indicators (SDIs) are implemented and managed within the relevant work area.
• Ensure all national and local policies and procedures are implemented and compliant e.g. National Security Framework (NSF), Local Security Strategy (LSS), Finance Manual.
• Attend as directed any relevant boards/meetings and actively contribute, either as chair or team member.
• Provides leadership and direction to managers and staff within their defined work area through briefings, building informal and formal relationships and effective communication.
• Produce relevant reports as required and ensure all correspondence is replied to within agreed timescales.
• Liaise and form good relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Manage resources to deliver the activities within the defined work area, and contribute to the mid-to-long term business planning process.
• Ensure the defined work area and associated activities comply with Health and Safety legislation. Ensure all risk assessments are undertaken and staff are made aware of their personal responsibility towards ensuring Health and Safety compliance.

The duties/responsibilities listed above describe the post as it is at present and is not intended to be exhaustive. The job holder is expected to accept reasonable alterations and additional tasks of a similar level that may be necessary. Significant adjustments may require re-examination under the Job Evaluation Scheme and shall be discussed in the first instance with the job holder.

An ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence through the medium of English or (where specified in Wales) Welsh.

Behaviours

• Making Effective Decisions
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together
• Managing a Quality Service

Technical skills

• Awareness of current ISO9001 Standard or an equivalent quality management system.
• Have a broad understanding on Health and Safety requirements in an industrial setting.

Alongside your salary of £38,272, HM Prison & Probation Service contributes £11,087 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

• Access to learning and development
• A working environment that supports a range of flexible working options to enhance your work life balance
• A working culture which encourages inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
• Annual Leave
• Public Holidays
• Season Ticket Advance

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Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
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This Job Is Broadly Open To The Following Groups

• 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) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for 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

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Contact point for applicants

• Name : SSCL Recruitment Enquiries Team
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