Skills Coach
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The Role
We are looking for a self-motivated and dynamic Skills Coach to join our join our prison industries team and play a pivotal role in the rehabilitation and resettlement of prisoners.
You will be working closely with instructors to support learners in developing their work skills which will enhance their chances of employability. You will provide support and guidance to learners so they record their skills and work experiences along with motivating and keeping the learners engaged. In this exciting position, you will collaborate closely with prison industries instructors to support prisoners in developing valuable work skills and enhancing their employability. Your mission will be to empower prisoners to recognize and record their skills and work experiences, motivating them to fully engage in their work.
This is a unique opportunity to make a meaningful impact by equipping prisoners with essential skills that can lead to successful reintegration into the workforce and society.
Key Responsibilities:
• Liaise with the Activity Hub to identify prisoners who meet the criteria for the service.
• Assess the prisoners ‘start point’ in terms of their existing skill set, experience and career aspirations.
• Signpost support for prisoners where specific learning difficulties or disabilities and / or other barriers have been identified.
• Support and encourage prisoners to develop their personal, social and employability skills, including in
English and mathematics, required to achieve their core learning aims and reinforce the importance of these skills in the context of their next steps and employment opportunities.
• Encourage positive attitudes and behaviours towards education, training, and employment.
• Facilitate in cell learning/information materials to engage or improve outcomes for prisoners.
• Update prisoner records on the Prison National Offender Management Information System (PNOMIS).
• Virtual Campus (VC), Curious and any other system as required by management.
Coaching and Assessing
- Motivating, empowering and coaching prisoners to build on existing skills and develop new ones in the context of their work placement.
- Observing and assessing prisoners against agreed employability competencies such as teamwork, communication and problem solving.
- Recognising progress, challenging appropriate behaviour and encouraging reflective practice in prisoners.
- Delivering classroom-based employability programs.
- Providing support with self-employment.
- Supporting prisoners to record progress in their Education and Training Portfolios.
Quality and Admin
- Ensure all prescribed company processes, systems, and ethical standards are always met such as accurate and timely tracking and recording of the Participants journey, referral to internal and external provision, referral to vacancies etc.
- Maintain prisoners files and data (paper and database) to 100% accuracy at the first, and every subsequent instance of completion.
Requirements:
A passion for coaching and supporting others on their path to success.
Experience in employability skills development or a similar role.
Strong communication and motivational skills.
Ability to foster a supportive and inclusive environment.
If you’re ready to inspire and empower prisoners to unlock their potential, we want to hear from you! Apply now to join our team and be part of a transformative journey that makes a real difference.
For full details of the role and the person specification please review the job description or If you would like to speak to the recruitment team before you apply, please email any questions to careers@peopleplus.co.uk and one of the team will come back to you. If you wish to apply, please ensure this is done via the apply now button
Who We Are
Here are PeoplePlus, we are committed to transforming the lives of people with convictions through our work in prisons.
Our services have been designed to tackle the underlying causes of offending behaviour so people can make positive changes to their lives.
With more than 500 people working to support people with convictions in custody and in the community, we bring passion, experience and innovation to public sector rehabilitation services.
We also work with specialist partner organisations to help people move away from their past and look forward to a brighter future.
All of our services are designed in partnership with the people who we’re trying to help and away from our direct work with people serving their sentences, we’re working hard to change attitudes towards people who can often be tarnished unfairly following criminal convictions. Our Social Recruitment Framework brings together organisations to tackle any pre-conceived ideas about hiring people who have previously been involved in crime.
We also work with employers on the Ban the Box initiative to support fair and equal recruitment processes and have engaged industry to influence our employer-led curriculum delivered to our learners.
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.
Our Benefits
A paid PeoplePlus Life Event Day each year
30 days annual leave for Teaching roles / 25 days for support roles
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
Testimonials
"What I love about working in a prison environment is that no 2 days are the same. You are a number of different roles such as counsellor, adviser and at times the person that makes a difference in that individual’s life.
There are also good career opportunities for an individual. I started as a supply tutor and I am now an assistant manager. At PeoplePlus you are given the opportunities to gain new skills and qualifications to enable you to be the best version of yourself."
"I have been lucky enough to work in a number of roles within PeoplePlus within the prison education sector, each of which has provided variety, challenge, and immense job satisfaction. The company recognises, values, and rewards the hard work of its employees, providing great professional development and career progression opportunities as well as a great range of perks and support for wellbeing."
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