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Head of Learning & Skills - Custodial & Detention Services
Job Reference 6280
The job has expired.
Number of Positions:
1
Contract Type:
Full Time
Salary:
£55,000 - £60,000
Location:
Home Based
Closing Date:
07/05/2018
Job Category:
Other
Region / Division:
UK, Ireland and Africa
Business Unit:
UK Central Government Services
Main Responsibilities
HEAD OF LEARNING AND SKILLS
G4S Custodial & Detention Services - England & Wales
Home Based with travel to the following regions as and when required:
- Rugby
- Liverpool
- South/Mid Wales
- Birmingham
- Milton Keynes
- Wolverhampton
- Gatwick
circa £55,000 - £60,000 per annum dependant on experience
Full Time – 40 hours per week, Plus Excellent Company benefits including Company Car and Pension Scheme
G4S Custodial & Detention Services (CDS) is the leading private provider of custodial services in the UK and manages five prisons, two immigration removal centres, one secure training centre and a number of community contracts in England and Wales. We provide progressive environments dedicated to reducing re-offending and enabling individuals to fulfil their potential back in their local community, and, from the IRCs achieving successful returns to their home countries.
We are looking for a Head of Learning and Skills to join our Custodial & Detention Services central management team.
In this critical role, you will lead and manage the development and improvement of the learning and skills provision for Prisoners and Detainees across the Offender Management estate, ensuring that national standards and targets are met.
You will possess a teaching or training qualification, along with substantial senior management experience in an educational or training setting whilst supporting business teams in all learning and skills matters. You will have a consultative attitude, along with a thorough knowledge and understanding of the Offenders’ Learning and Skills Service (OLASS) model, of other learning & skills contracts and modes of delivery and of the Ofsted inspection process. You will have excellent communication, negotiation and influencing skills, both written and oral are essential, as is the ability to work openly and collaboratively at all levels.
It is essential that you have experience of working within a multifunctional and demanding environment with multiple geographical site coverage. You should be a dynamic and engaging individual with a good sense of humour, who shares our ethics and values and is eager to support the Education teams.
Some of the key responsibilities of the role are:
• Lead the strategic and operational planning processes for Learning and Skills activities in order to promote the vision of the ‘secure learning centre’.
• Promote, plan and co-ordinate learning and skills activities in order to provide comprehensive and coherent learning and skills programmes.
• Manage and provide professional advice about the contracts for learning and skills within the establishments to ensure that quality and contractual standards are achieved.
• Manage and provide professional advice about staff development and training for learning and skills staff within the establishments so that the required national standards are met.
• Monitor and advise on budgets for learning and skills provision to ensure effective and efficient use of resources.
• Ensure management information systems are in place to record accurately required data relating to learning and skills provision and that data is scrutinised rigorously to ensure that outcomes, targets and standards met.
• Ensure that learning and skills are integrated into the sentence planning and offender management processes in order to support the effective transition from custody to the community for prisoners.
• Liaise with providers and external agencies to ensure the effective delivery and contribution of learning and skills activities and, as required, their availability on release.
The Ideal Candidate
It is key that you are flexible and adaptable to deal with ever-changing scenarios, have the ability to build rapport and influence key stakeholders, as well as possessing a high degree of self-awareness.
To apply please e-mail your CV along with a covering letter outlining your interest to leah.bowpitt@uk.g4s.com by 7th February 2018.
Please note that these vacancies are subject to a 10 year checkable history and the strict vetting standards set by G4S, National Offender Management Service and are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act.