Competitive Salaries
Flexible Working
Excellent Benefits

Multi-Skills Construction Vocational Trainer

Location HMP Millsike
Salary £32,000 - £34,700
Contract Permanent
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This is a {Advertised Permanent / Temporary}, {Advertised Full Time / Part Time} vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.

We’re recruiting for the first Vocational Trainers at HMP Millsike, a brand-new prison estate set to open in Spring 2025. If you’re passionate about making a difference through education, this is your chance to help shape our new curriculum and deliver high-quality training from the very start.

About the Role

As a Multi-Skills Construction Vocational Trainer, you’ll deliver practical, hands-on training in plastering, painting and decorating, tiling, and dry lining up to City & Guilds Level 2, preparing learners for assessments and real-world applications. Working with a cohort of up to 18 learners, your role will focus on building essential skills, fostering employability, and promoting personal growth. You’ll be a central figure in guiding learners on their journey toward meaningful employment upon release.

What You’ll Do

  • Teach Practical Construction Skills: Lead engaging sessions on plastering, painting, tiling, and dry lining, and prepare learners for their City & Guilds Level 2 assessments.
  • Adapt and Support Diverse Learners: Use adaptive training techniques to meet varied learning needs, ensuring each learner progresses confidently.
  • Promote Safety and Tool Management: Conduct regular tool checks and uphold rigorous health and safety standards in a secure workshop environment.
  • Incorporate Employability and Digital Skills: Embed employability and digital literacy within practical sessions to enhance learners’ readiness for today’s workforce.
  • Encourage Personal Growth Through Restorative Practices: Foster a supportive training environment, motivating learners to engage, reflect, and take responsibility for their learning journey.

Who We’re Looking For

  • Essential Requirements:
    • Qualified in construction trades to at least Level 2, with a Level 2 in Maths and English.
    • Strong experience in delivering vocational training or instruction in a practical setting.
    • A passion for motivating and supporting learners toward achieving their goals.
  • Desirable:
    • A teaching qualification such as PTLLS, AET, CET, or equivalent (or willingness to work towards one).
    • An assessor’s qualification (or willingness to work towards one).

If you’re excited to lead by example, inspire change, and support individuals on a path to long-term success, we want to hear from you. Join us at HMP Millsike and play a vital role in shaping a brighter future for our learners and their communities.

Working Hours:
This is a full-time role, 38.5 hours per week, with the following schedule:

  • Four days per week: 8:00 AM to 5:30 PM
  • One half-day per week: either 8:00 AM to 12:30 PM or 1:00 PM to 5:30 PM

Here at People Plus, we make a positive difference to people’s lives – every single day. 

We use our experience to support hundreds of thousands of people each year. Our committed teams work across Britain to deliver a range of public services, including employment support, skills training, independent living, prison education, starting a business, and support to help employers grow. 

To put it simply, we: 

  • Support people to find and keep jobs 
  • Help people to set up their own businesses 
  • Deliver skills training to further people’s careers 
  • Work with employers to build a skilled and happy workforce 
  • Rehabilitate people with convictions 
  • Tackle the root causes of offending 
  • Help people to live independently 
  • Support carers 

We are extremely proud to be a Silver accredited Investors in People organisation. This means that at PeoplePlus, the right principles are in place but more than that, it means our people and leaders are making active efforts to make sure that there’s real consistency and everyone in the organisation can feel the effects.

A paid PeoplePlus Life Event Day each year

25 days annual leave

Cycle to Work scheme

Access to hundreds of discounts via the Additions portal

Employee Assistance Programme

Access to online wellbeing centre

Enhanced Wedding leave

A paid volunteering day each year

"I have worked within PeoplePlus for 6 months now, my team is amazing and full of support.  I have been given many opportunities to expand my role and learn new skills, always supported by management and my colleagues."

"PeoplePlus is a great place to work as they care about and support their employees whilst challenging them to grow within the company.  The core values contribute effectively to the company culture of honesty, communication and self-improvement enabling staff to be heard and feedback and share opinions in a progressive way.  Staff are always empowered to perform and motivated by achievement thereby creating a positive environment within which to support the well-being of others."

"I have loved my time since joining PeoplePlus as an Administrator for the Restart Scheme in Stockton. After a few months I enrolled onto Level 3 HR Support apprenticeship through the internal apprenticeship programme. Since then, I have joined the Contract Assurance team as Compliance officer for the Northeast. I have a great support system within the organisation and have been given many fantastic opportunities to help progress my professional development. "

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