As a student programme facilitator with Shannon Trust, your role is to support the Shannon Trust staff team to successfully deliver the Shannon Trust reading and numeracy programmes within a prison.
You will be supporting onsite at the prison you will be based in, with the Shannon Trust facilitator/programme manager, people in prison, prison officers, prison education staff, and Shannon Trust volunteers.
➢ To raise awareness of the Shannon Trust programme, encouraging referrals from staff and people in prison
➢ To grow the programme, ensuring potential learners are identified and have access to the Shannon Trust programme throughout the prison.
➢ To ensure mentors are trained, equipped and supported to deliver the reading and programme.
➢ To utilise systems to ensure effective delivery, monitoring and evaluation.
A broad outline of tasks and activities to be undertaken:
Programme planning and delivery
• Access assessment data to inform how many people need help with reading and maths, identifying where they are likely to be during the core day and weekends. Volunteer in partnership with induction officers, education providers, mentor coordinators and other agencies to raise awareness of the programme, increase referrals and achieve a ‘whole prison’ approach to delivery.
• Identify potential learners and hard to engage people in prison, ensuring they are offered the programme and matched to appropriate mentors.
• Support the Shannon Trust facilitator to identify potential mentors and ensure they have access to Shannon Trust mentor training and ongoing support, development and supervision, ensuring a sufficient number of mentors to meet demand.
• Ensure learners have access to sufficient learning resources to include books, manuals, videos and digital programmes as appropriate.
• Support Shannon Trust facilitators and volunteers to ensure quality programme delivery by ensuring organisational standards are being met, seeking ideas and opportunities for improvements.
• Assist Shannon Trust facilitator to develop solutions to overcome operational challenges
Reporting
• Utilise systems (Nomis, Shannon Trust database/spreadsheets) to record and submit learner progression data and mentor training achievements.
• Support the Shannon Trust facilitator to collect case studies to inform monthly reports
Partnership
• Engage with the Shannon Trust facilitator and volunteer, to ensure mentor training is delivered and mentors are supported in their roles.
• Collaborate with prison staff, to include officers and staff from the library, education department and other agencies within the prison.
• Support Shannon Trust mentors, ensuring they are kept up to date with Shannon Trust news, and that they have the opportunity to share ideas and feedback to the organisation.
Other
• Put the learner at the heart of what you do, actively contribute to a culture of learning, reflection, team work and development, in line with the organisation’s values.
• Participate in regular one-to-ones and team meetings
• Carry out health and safety responsibilities in accordance with the Health & Safety Policy.
• To undertake other duties and responsibilities commensurate with the role, as may be reasonably required by Shannon Trust or as a mutually agreed development opportunity.
• Protecting Children and Vulnerable Adults is a core responsibility of all staff. Students are expected to alert the Shannon Trust facilitator to any concerns they may have regarding the abuse or inappropriate treatment of a Child or Young Person, or Vulnerable Adults.
Being a student programme facilitator at Shannon Trust provides you with a number of benefits which can you help you to develop both your personal and professional skills:
• Ongoing training to support your role
• Developing IT skills and support using up to date packages
• Developing and growing your understanding of the HMPPS structure and prison system
• Phonics
• Relationship building, coaching, presentation and training skills.
• Chairing meetings
• Managing and supporting a team
• Dealing with challenging situations
Person specification:
Skills and abilities
• Good organisational and planning skills
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to adjust your communication style to different audiences, including people in prison, volunteers, prison governors and staff.
• Ability to inspire, and support a team of peer mentors
• Good time management skills, with the ability to prioritise your tasks, complete them autonomously and balance the needs of multiple programmes and priorities.
• Able to build positive relationships throughout the prison and within Shannon Trust.
• Ability to write clear, succinct reports, emails and other key communications.
• Ability to volunteer in a results focused way, with a focus on the best outcomes for learners.
• Ability to foster and demonstrate the values, aims and objectives of Shannon Trust in your role.
• Ability to demonstrate the appropriate attributes required to volunteer within a prison environment.
Knowledge and understanding
• Understanding of the reasons why adults might not be able to read, and the personal and practical barriers to engaging with education faced by people in prison and the community.
• Knowledge and understanding of the criminal justice system.
Personal Characteristics
• Proactive, solution focused, patient and professional.
• Performance minded and results orientated, with learners at the heart of what you do.
• Non-judgemental attitude towards engaging with people in prison. Committed to anti discriminatory and inclusive practices.
• Approachable and able to form positive working relationships.
• The right to work in the UK.
• Able to travel independently to designated prison and occasional staff meetings in a central location.
• Appointment will be dependent upon successful security vetting by His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service.
Full role description is available at:
https://careers.shannontrust.org.uk/job/0f779979-51de-403f-a970-8d3a817e...
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