Industries Curriculum Manager-HMP Fosse Way

Industries Curriculum Manager
HMP Fosse Way, Leicestershire, LE18 4TN
Full-Time (40 hrs pw), Permanent
£38,000, rising to £42,000pa (depending on experience)

Are you commitment to making a difference?

At Serco, we’re looking for an Industries Curriculum Manager to join our team at HMP Fosse Way.

This is a brand-new resettlement prison, offering support and training for those preparing for release and successful reintegration into society, with meaningful and paid employment.

As an Industries Curriculum Manager you will supervise the daily operations of the education department based in the industries auxiliary building within HMP Fosse Way. Ensuring that your support services area including IAG, Exams, SEN, OU, Learner progress and data are fully operational and reflect the current population, ensuring maximum efficiency and quality. You will fully support the education department, ensuring quality of a learner's journey and support to access the curriculum is being provided. You will ensure that all data, within your remit, meets required benchmarks and that remedial action is put into place where they do not.

What you’ll do

• To ensure full operational running of the learner support services over a variety of teaching and learning sites, working in conjunction with the curriculum team leaders.
• Regularly review and monitor the data for Education and Industries.
• To Support future Ofsted inspections and learning and skills elements of HMIP inspections to ensure evidence is in line with expectations.
• To put the learner journey from IAG to successful completion at the heart of all areas of education
• To manage all annual leave within your areas responsibility, ensuring that workplace policies are followed at all times
• To manage all absences within your areas responsibility in ensuring HR policies are followed at all times
• To work alongside the Head of Education, Skills and Work for all areas of recruitment
• To complete PDRs, with all directly line managed staff members, within agreed timescales
• To ensure that all staff with your curriculum responsibility are fully update with all Serco essential training
• To seek to motivate and provide solutions for prisoners not engaging in education and work
• To be a part of the Education Strategy Group and fully participate in meetings when requested.
• To provide day to day management of all quality systems and procedures, working in conjunction with the HofESW
• To represent the Education, Skills and Work at meetings throughout the secure estate, as required.
• To lead on the Quality Implementation Group and be responsible for the Performance Review document.
• To monitor learner data to ensure achievement of benchmarking, implementing appropriate remedial actions where necessary
• To chair regular learner support team meetings
• To assist in responses to formal Prisoner complaints/queries, taken appropriate remedial action where necessary
• To submit procurement request following agreed policies
• To support, listen and develop all support staff
• To ensure that health and safety procedure are always followed
• To fairly and effectively apply company policy, to challenge poor performance and behaviour
• To understand education wider departmental practices
• To maintain links and information exchange with appropriate partnerships
• To undertake other duties as directed by senior management

What you’ll need

Qualifications:

Minimum

• GCSE (Grade 4 or above) Maths and English Language
• PGCE / Certificate in Education

Desirable

• Leadership and Management Qualification
• Level 5 Assessors award Knowledge:
• Awareness of current education Policies impacting on the delivery of custodial education provision

Experience

• Experience of support systems and procedure in an education within a diverse and challenging environment
• Experience of managing staff
• Responds to identified needs by undertaking self-directed learning, research and training as required
• Establishes internal / external links as required

What we offer

• Pension: Up to 6% contributory pension scheme
• Training and development: Over 1,100 internal courses available, funding for qualifications and apprenticeships (including L3 Team Leader and L5 Operations Manager apprenticeships), mentoring opportunities, and a focus on internal progression
• Health and wellbeing: Employee Assistance Programme, Bupa Anytime HealthLine, wellbeing app, 30% off at Serco-managed leisure centres, and 24/7 access to a virtual GP service
• Discounts: Discounts across around 1,000 retailers, from food and clothing to days out, entertainment and travel.
• ShareSave scheme: Save regularly with the choice to buy Serco shares at a discount at the end of your savings period.
• Charity: Paid volunteering day, tax-free charitable giving through Payroll Giving Scheme, donate your pennies from your monthly pay to the Serco People Fund Charity
• Employee networks: Our networks support inclusion and connection by providing spaces for collaboration, learning, and belonging. They represent and empower diverse groups including LGBTQIA+ employees, women, parents and carers, people with disabilities, veterans, and people from all cultural backgrounds.
  
  

A little bit about us

At Serco, we’re a fast-growing company, serving governments around the globe. Our work spans a wide range of sectors including Justice, Immigration, Defence, Leisure, Healthcare, Transport, and Citizen Services. We’re committed to delivering, improving and redesigning public services for the benefit of everyone, guided by our values of Trust, Care, Innovation, and Pride.

Our inclusive recruitment process: We see people first and foremost for their performance and potential. We’re a proud holder of the Gold Inclusive Employer Standard, a Disability Confident Leader, and a top three Great British Employer of Veterans, championing fair access to employment and equal opportunities for all. As such we’ll make reasonable adjustments from interview through to employment.

As part of the Disability Confident Scheme, disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job will be given the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at an interview.

Let’s impact a better future, together. Apply today.

For help with your application, or to discuss your eligibility, please contact fossewayjobs@serco.com

About Serco
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. 

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At Serco, we see people first and foremost for their performance and potential. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that supports the needs of all. As such we will make reasonable adjustments at interview through to employment for our candidates and strongly encourage applications from a diverse candidate pool. We are open to discussions around flexibility and flexible working. We operate a hybrid work structure in many of our business areas. We are proudly Disability Confident Leader employers and holder of the Gold Inclusive Employer Standard. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job will be given the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at an interview. 
 

At Serco we support fair access to employment for those with unspent criminal convictions through the ‘Ban the Box’ pledge (some may be exempt due to the nature of the role and the security clearance required).