Serco – HMP Fosse Way
Permanent, Full Time
Up to £55,000 per annum + Excellent Corporate Company Benefits
We are looking for a Head of Education, Skills and Work to join our fantastic team at HMP Fosse Way, a brand new Category C resettlement prison in Leicester with the capacity to house around 1,700 prisoners.
You will support the prison to become a place of meaningful work with a key focus on leading Education, Skills and Work, along with the accountability of purposeful activity across the regime. You will provide a strategic focus, whilst supporting the Learning and Skills Manager ensuring that sequencing of activities is purposeful and directed towards maximising prisoners’ opportunities to access employment, education, and training on release.
Reporting directly into the Contract Director, you will line manage your team successfully to contribute to resettlement of prisoners back into the community. You will have experience of high-quality delivery within prison education, skills and work environment at Senior Management level alongside contract management of PEF/PES providers.
As a strategic lead you will be responsible for creating a prisoner education service focused on work based training and personal development pathways and you will be accountable for the proportion of prisoners in employment 6 weeks post release.
Other accountabilities will include:
- Oversight and delivery of standardisation within ESW
- Development pathway for delivery of innovation through training packages, media, and materials
- Ensure strategy and delivery supports our aims of being an inclusive and diverse workforce.
- Drive continuous improvement through innovation, analysis/ evaluation, reporting and ongoing review and monitoring of process, procedures and learning transference
- Maintaining and improving cost control measures working within budget to maximise the efficiency of the function and to ensure value for money
What you’ll need to do the role
Firstly, your qualifications will align to the role - Relevant Degree in Education, PGCE, Cert Ed or Minimum Level 5 Teaching Qualification, QTS or QTLS Status.
You must be a strong communicator with a logical, structured, clear, credible and mature style, with the capabilities to quickly engage audiences at all levels.
You will be a confident professional leader with the passion and drive to support our prisoners and you will have experience of working collaboratively with senior leaders, stakeholders and students.
Finally, you must have demonstrable experience of HMIP and Ofsted inspections and expectations and be comfortable working in a matrix environment.
Why Serco
A place you can make an impact - The nature of our business means you will do interesting work that matters – delivering essential services that touch people’s lives.
A place you can count on - Our diverse UK-wide operations offer unrivalled opportunities to learn and develop. You’ll be able to broaden your experience and apply your skills in new ways.
A place for you - We are a motivated team who will encourage you and help you to succeed within a supportive and safe culture.
What we offer
- Pension – up to 6%
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Chance to contribute to innovation in the immigration sector
- A company passionate about diversity and inclusion
- Serco Benefits package - discounts include cinema, merlin entertainment, online shopping, mobile phone plans and leisure centre memberships
- A safe and supportive culture
About Serco
At Serco, not only is the nature of the work we do important, everyone has an important role to play, from caring for vulnerable people to managing complex public services. We are a team of 50,000 people responsible for delivering essential public services around the world in areas including defence, transport, justice, immigration, healthcare and citizen services. We are innovators, committed to redesigning and improving public services for the benefit of everyone.
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Serco is a Disability Confident Employer committed to employing and retaining people with disabilities. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job will be given the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at an interview. For help with your application please contact 0345 010 4000.
We see people first and foremost for their performance and potential. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that supports the needs of all. As such we will make reasonable adjustments at interview through to employment for our candidates. We’re a proud holder of the Gold Inclusive Employer Standard and we actively encourage applications from females, those with disabilities or from an ethnic minority background.
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