Workshop Instructor

Have you ever considered working in a prison?

This is an excellent opportunity to educate and rehabilitate adult learners.

If you would like a unique and challenging non-teaching role, where you can genuinely make a difference, enhance the prospects of learners, and ultimately change people's lives for the better - then this could be the opportunity for you.

Details of this position:
This position is for a full-time Workshop Instructor to work within prison education.

The role will involve supervising offenders in the workshop, ensuring safe practices while supporting them to gain practical and employability skills that can be used on release.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead & Support: Deliver hands-on instruction across multiple workshop environments, guiding residents through structured work tasks.
• Engage & Motivate: Foster participation and maintain focus, ensuring a professional, purposeful environment.
• Adapt & Problem-Solve: Transition seamlessly between different workshop areas, providing consistency and high-quality learning experiences.
• Ensure Safety: Conduct risk assessments, manage tool control, and uphold all health and safety standards.
• Track & Report: Record attendance, monitor progress, and contribute to rehabilitation and performance reporting.

Work schedule:

38.5 hours per week across 5 days:

• Four days: 8:00 AM - 5:30 PM
• One half-day: either 8:00 AM - 12:30 PM or 1:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Salary scale: From £30,000 per year

Ideal Candidate Profile:

• Experience in a relevant trade or vocational area (manufacturing, horticulture, cleaning, waste management, etc.).
• Skilled in group management, able to create a positive and structured workshop environment.
• Highly adaptable, capable of quickly learning new workshop processes.
• Competent with basic administrative duties, including tracking attendance and outputs.
• Strong commitment to safety, structure, and supporting resident development.

Suitable candidates will need to be enthusiastic, resilient, and have a humanistic approach. This role will not be for everyone, but anyone with an interest is encouraged to apply. If suitable, you will have the opportunity to discuss the role directly with the hiring manager, who can provide more detail and an insight into life working in a prison.

Benefits:

• Pension scheme to support your future.
• No working from home
• Employee Assistance Programme to prioritise wellbeing.
• Opportunity to make a real impact in rehabilitation and skills development.
• Supportive working environment that values diversity and inclusion.
• Professional development opportunities, including support to gain teaching or assessing qualifications.

The successful candidate will be required to obtain the appropriate prison clearance before starting the role and maintain this throughout employment.

If you are interested in this position, then please apply via the link. Alternatively, you can contact Izzy White to discuss the role in further detail. ( or )

If this vacancy is not of interest to you at this time, but you happen to know someone who might be suitable and interested, then please kindly pass these details on to them.

Important Notice

Dovetail and Slate is a specialist education recruitment company. If this role isn't quite right, we welcome your CV and a call to explore other opportunities.

We are committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults. All appointments are subject to satisfactory vetting, including a right to work check and, where relevant, an enhanced DBS, PVG (Scotland), or EWC (Wales) check, in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education.

Dovetail and Slate Ltd () acts as an Employment Agency and an Employment Business under the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003.

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Because education matters. Dovetail and Slate Limited () acts as an Employment Agency.

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