Workshop Instructor - White Goods Refurbishment
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The Role
Workshop Instructor – White Goods Refurbishment
Are you hands-on, values-driven, and passionate about giving people a second chance? We’re looking for a Workshop Instructor to lead a purposeful prison-based workshop focused on refurbishing donated white goods such as fridges, freezers, and washing machines for reuse in the local community.
This is a workshop where practical skills meet real social impact. Prisoners gain valuable technical experience, contribute to sustainability, and support low-income households through access to affordable, refurbished appliances.
About the Role
You’ll oversee the day-to-day running of a busy, hands-on workshop, managing the refurbishment process from donation through to finished product. At the same time, you’ll supervise and support prisoners as they develop practical skills, grow in confidence, and work toward employment-readiness.
You’ll embed key employability behaviours through daily routines, support the delivery of vocational qualifications (such as warehousing where relevant), and ensure that workshop operations run smoothly, safely, and in line with prison protocols.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Induct prisoners into the workshop, providing guidance on safety, stock control, and the handling of tools and equipment.
- Lead, motivate, and supervise the workshop team as they refurbish white goods for community use.
- Set daily production targets and quality standards, ensuring refurbished items meet required checks before reuse or resale.
- Promote a rehabilitative working environment using restorative practices and positive reinforcement.
- Ensure full compliance with health, safety, and security procedures including risk assessments, tool control, and Level A/B searches.
- Support employability development through the Employability Passport and, where relevant, deliver or assess warehousing qualifications.
- Monitor attendance and productivity, keeping accurate records and contributing to prisoner case reports as needed.
- Collaborate with Work & Skills Coaches and other prison staff to ensure joined-up support for each individual’s development.
What We’re Looking For
We’d like to hear from you if you have:
- Experience in maintenance, repair, warehousing, or a related technical field—ideally involving white goods or electrical appliances.
- The ability to manage people and maintain structure in a busy work environment.
- A strong understanding of health and safety in a workshop setting.
- Good organisational skills to manage stock, workflows, and production targets.
- A positive and collaborative attitude, with strong communication skills.
- Awareness of prison security procedures, or a willingness to learn.
Experience in training or assessing vocational qualifications is a bonus, but not essential we’ll support the right person to develop these skills.
Why This Role Matters
This is more than just a workshop it’s a project with real social value. Every refurbished appliance reduces waste, supports a household in need, and helps someone inside build a better future on release.
Who We Are
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.
Our Benefits
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
Testimonials
"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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