Learning & Skills Development Manager

We are seeking to appoint a highly motivated, innovative and enthusiastic Learning & Skills Development Manager to work within North Midlands Prison Group. The successful individual will provide a strategic focus on education, learning, skills and qualifications in all areas of activity within a specified prison establishment, with an emphasis on employability, maximising offenders’ opportunities to access employment, education and training whilst in custody and on release.

Significant experience at management level in educational setting would be an advantage.

Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) is to here to prevent victims by changing lives. We work with our partners to carry out the sentences given by the courts, either in custody or the community. We reduce reoffending by rehabilitating the people in our care through education and employment. The agency is made up of Her Majesty’s Prison Service, the National Probation Service and a headquarters focussed on creating tools and learning.

Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service is committed to treating all people fairly. We treat our staff with respect and offer equal opportunities to everyone we work with. We insist on respectful and polite behaviour from staff, those in our care and others who we work with. We recognise that discrimination, harassment and bullying can still happen and we take quick and appropriate action whenever we find them.

To apply please visit: https://www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi?jcode=1612231

All candidates are subject to security and identity checks prior to taking up post.

All external candidates are subject to 6 months’ probation.  Internal candidates are subject to probation if they have not already served a probation period within HMPPS.

All staff are required to declare whether they are a member of a group or organisation which HMPPS considers to be racist.