The posting
- About The Role
- The post holder will be responsible for the provision and maintenance of an effective and efficient standard compliant workshop, ensuring training targets and quality standards are met. Providing opportunities for offenders to be engaged in constructive and meaningful activity whilst in custody, delivering training aimed at improving their employment prospects on release.
- For full details about the role, please refer to the Job Description, Person Specification and Selection Information & Timeline.
- About the Successful Candidate
- Qualifications
- Achieved the A1 Assessors Award or willing to work towards Essential Served a recognised apprenticeship/Trade qualification (City & Guilds or SVQ equivalent) Desirable
- Knowledge, Skills & Experience
- Experience of managing challenging circumstances or behaviours, using your emotional intelligence to prevent or resolve conflict, regulate your own emotional reactions and positively influencing other to achieve desired results Essential Experience of providing support, advice or guidance to others Essential Sound knowledge of Health and Safety Legislation, particularly in relation to Risk Assessments, Safe Systems of Work and Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) regulations Essential
- Essential Competencies for Success
- Listen & Communicate Plan & Organise Relationships & Collaboration
- About Us
- Not Specified
Civil Service Values
All Civil Servants, and therefore anyone employed by the Scottish Prison Service, must be able to fully comply with the requirements of the Civil Service Code. Everyone is expected to carry out their role with dedication and uphold the core values of the Civil Service: Honesty, Integrity, Objectivity and Impartiality.
- Integrity: putting the obligations of public service above your own personal interests.
- Honesty: being truthful and open.
- Objectivity: basing your advice and decisions on rigorous analysis of the evidence.
- Impartiality: acting solely according to the merits of the case and serving equally well Governments of different political persuasions.
The Civil Service Commission
Our recruitment is conducted in line with the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles and external competitions are regulated by the Civil Service Commission. While the legal requirement to follow these Principles applies specifically to external appointments, the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) recognises these standards as best practice. Accordingly, SPS fully adopts these principles as the foundation for all recruitment activity, including internal recruitment and selection processes.
External competitions: if you believe that the requirement for selection for appointment on merit based on fair and open competition has not been met, you have the right to raise a complaint. Further information on the Commission’s complaints procedure is available at: https://www.civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/.
Internal competitions: if you believe that the requirement for selection for appointment on merit based on fair and open competition has not been met, you can raise a complaint to your HR Business Partner.
Apply
Share
- Share Vacancy on Facebook
- Share Vacancy on X
- Share Vacancy on LinkedIn
- Share Vacancy on WhatsApp
- Send Vacancy to a friend



