Job profile

 The LTE Group is a national, public-sector learning, training and education organisation with a clearly defined mission to ‘improve lives and economic success through learning and skills. Our 4,000 valued colleagues drive our delivery of specialist learning to over 100,000 learners in over 120 UK locations, across our six businesses.

We have a fantastic opportunity to join our Education team as an Information Advice Guidance Co-ordinator for Novus, at HMP Onley offered on a permanent, full-time basis working 37 hrs per week.

What the role entails

As IAG Co-ordinator you will be responsible for offering a full Information, Advice and Guidance service to prisoners in custody, including careers guidance, career planning, using guidance tools to help prisoners to identify future job choices and formulate/review skills development plans.

Ensure that prospective and existing clients receive relevant and easily understood information, advice, and guidance regarding resettlement provision in custody and continuing support on release on licence and on Post Sentence Supervision, contribute to a multi-disciplinary approach that seeks to facilitate a smooth transition to the resettlement of the client into the community Train, supervise and quality assure IA service delivered by Prisoner Peer Support Workers

To be successful in the role of Information Advice and Guidance you will be required to.

• Design and deliver Information, Advice and Guidance sessions to prisoners in custody, in groups and 1-1.
• Design and deliver effective Career Plans with prisoners using specialist resources as applicable.
• Support prisoners to review their action plan at significant points in their sentence.
• Deliver IAG qualifications to prisoner peer support workers, in line with Awarding Organisation standards and Novus Quality guidelines.
• Provide supervision for prisoner IAG workforce, ensuring quality of delivery and support for prisoner peer support workers.
• Quality assures action plans produced by IA workers/ prisoner peer support workers, produce and monitor action plans to continuously improve them.
• Deliver employability workshops to groups of prisoners.
• Ensure prisoner records are maintained, reviewed, and updated regularly, in line with contract requirements.
• Contribute to the effective allocation of the client to custodial provision.
• Engage with actual and potential referral agencies including statutory and third sector agencies and where appropriate the community in order to generate referrals for programmes/activities/services as required.
• Provide action plans to other establishments to allow continuity of service through the journey in custody.
• Participate in establishment / lot level meetings as required.
• Participate in continual professional development activities to ensure skills and qualifications are in line with sector best practice and 3rd party requirements.

Qualifications required:

Essential

• To hold or be willing to work towards a level 4 Information, Advice and Guidance qualification within an agreed time scale.
• To hold level 2 qualifications in English and maths

Desirable

• TAQA Assessor (Level 3) or equivalent
• Level 5 teaching qualification or equivalent

Colleague Benefits

As part of the LTE Group family, you will benefit from an excellent package including:

• Extensive annual leave which can be taken throughout the year and not restricted to school holiday times.
• Monday to Friday working pattern.
• Our in-house ‘Evolve’ training programme, which offers you the chance to upskill and further your career through a wide range of recognised qualifications.
• We support you through a teacher training qualification and assessor qualifications.  
• Full package of training to support working in a Prison environment
• Good progression routes into management positions within education
• Learner class sizes are much smaller than FE colleges.
• Able to be flexible and innovative with the curriculum.
• Part of the wider community of the prison service
• Additional behavioural and complex need support
• Excellent pension scheme - LGPS
• Our comprehensive in-house awards scheme
• An Employee Assistance Programme including a free, confidential, 24/7 support service.
• Health care discounts through Simply Health
• Retail discounts through You at Work
• Our Cycle to Work scheme.

The LTE Group is an equal opportunities employer, welcoming applications from all sections of the community. If you feel you could make a difference in this rewarding and growing sector, please click on the ‘Apply online’ button below.

All applicants must demonstrate in their application their ability to meet the Key Responsibilities, Key Result Areas and Qualifications/Skills/Experience detailed within the job description for shortlisting purposes.

The closing date for this job advert is 24/07/2024. However, the job advert may close early if we receive a good response.

The LTE group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All applicants will be required to undergo an appropriate DBS check via the Criminal Records Bureau. Due to the educational aspect of our group some roles are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and would require an Enhanced DBS check and may be subject to additional online checks as part of our pre-screening process.