Head of Education, Skills and Work

You will support the prison to become a place of meaningful work with a key focus on leading Education, Skills and Work, along with the accountability of purposeful activity across the regime. You will provide a strategic focus, whilst supporting the team leaders ensuring that sequencing of activities is purposeful and directed towards maximising prisoners' opportunities to access employment, education, and training on release. You must have substantial education teaching experience and curriculum development and hold relevant teaching qualifications. Your OFSTED knowledge will include Estyn's EIF (Education Inspection Framework), further education and skills criteria for prisoners with Additional Learning Needs and how these apply in the prison context. As a fundamental lead within our Senior Management Team (SMT), you will be responsible for creating a prisoner education service focused on work based training and personal development pathways. You will set and lead the strategic direction for all of education, skills and work within the prison. This will involve developing a coherent approach to all areas of "Education, Skills and Work", ensuring that sequencing of activities is purposeful and directed towards maximising prisoners' opportunities to access employment, education and training on release. You must ensure that all activities are structured around the 5 pillars of the Ofsted Education Inspection Framework, supporting other function heads within the prison to maximise this approach in areas of prisoner residence and social interaction. Working closely with education providers, prison industries and local private enterprise to make the most appropriate use of workshops and all other prisoner places of work, providing prisoners with the learning and skills required to compete for and achieve employment within the local labour market.

Firstly, your qualifications will align to the role - Relevant Degree in Education, PGCE, Cert Ed or Level 5 Teaching Qualification, QTS or QTLS Status. You will be a confident professional leader with the passion and drive to support our prisoners and you will have experience of working collaboratively with senior leaders, stakeholders and students.

Why Serco Meaningful and vital work - The nature of our business means you will do interesting work that matters - delivering essential services that touch people's lives A world of opportunity - Our diverse UK-wide operations offer unrivalled opportunities to learn and develop. You'll be able to broaden your experience and apply your skills in new ways. Great people - We are a motivated team who will encourage you and help you to succeed. You'll have the resources you need to do your job in a diverse and supportive environment. What we offer

• Pension - up to 6%
• Serco Benefits package - discounts include cinema, merlin entertainment and online shopping, mobile phone plans and leisure centre memberships
• ShareSave - where employees can own a part of the company and invest in their future.
• Chance to contribute to innovation in the public services/prisons sector
• A company passionate about diversity and inclusion
• The chance to make a positive difference
• A safe and supportive culture
• Free on site parking
• Use of on site gym
• Free meals, At Serco, not only is the nature of the work we do important, everyone has an important role to play, from caring for vulnerable people to managing complex public services. We are a team of 50,000 people responsible for delivering essential public services around the world in areas including defence, transport, justice, immigration, healthcare and citizen services. We are innovators, committed to redesigning and improving public services for the benefit of everyone.
By joining Serco you will have unlimited access to our Global Employee Networks - SercoInspire (Gender), SercoEmbrace (Multicultural), SercoUnlimited (Disability) and In@Serco (LGBT & Networks). Serco Employee Networks, led by colleagues who are passionate about diversity, inclusion and belonging.