Job Description

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As a Disability Confident employer we offer a guaranteed interview to applicants with a disability who meet the essential criteria for the role. As a Gold Award Employer Recognition Scheme holder with the Armed Forces Covenant we also offer a guaranteed interview to veterans who meet the essential criteria for the role.

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Our safer recruitment practices support this by ensuring that there is a consistent and comprehensive process of obtaining, collating, analysing and evaluating information from and about candidates to ensure that all the people we appoint are suitable to work with our children, young people and adults.

If you want to work in a values driven team that makes a real difference to individuals and communities in Greater Manchester, read on.

OVERVIEW OF THE POST

Construction Training Manager based within established Industries Workshop at HMP Forest Bank, you will be responsible managing, delivering, developing and continuously improving a programme of L1/ L2 accredited construction multi skills and health and safety training for serving prisoners.

Responsible for:

Ensuring excellent operational delivery within programmes focused on participant experience, achievement and progression outcomes

Ensuring high quality and standardised service delivery by tutors in line with awarding body requirements

Ensuring effective relationships with prison staff e.g. officers and management

Meeting commissioner, partner, employer and stakeholder requirements

Driving culture and values within delivery team

Effective financial management and forward financial planning for programme area

ROLE & MAIN PURPOSES OF THE POST

Delivery

Leads and effectively manages all aspects of accredited construction training programmes within prison workshop environment, including developing curriculum and teaching materials and resources

Ensure delivery of a high-quality service that delivers positive achievements and outcomes for service users, including a focus on ensuring service users have the right skills, attitude and ambition to secure employment in construction following release from custody; achieves contractual KPIs and requirements of externally audited standards including City & Guilds and Ofsted

Some direct delivery and assessment of accredited construction multi trades training to ensure continuity of provision

Business & Service Development

Manages and develops excellent relationships with Sodexo staff, Probation and other agencies working within the prison environment

Manages & grows delivery partnerships and relationships, including with employers and commissioners

Leads and supervises implementation of quality improvement and development plans for curriculum area with focus on high standards of teaching, learning and assessment for all personnel in the workshop

Champions our listening and learning culture and uses data to inform service development within employment, skills and justice programmes

Financial & Resource Management

Responsible for prison workshop budget and plans for effective use of resources within prison workshop

Supports financial planning and develops and delivers financial sustainability plans for construction training programme

Identifies external funding opportunities to support development of new opportunities or innovation and makes recommendations on these

Secures new income for programme area through mixture of supply chain negotiations and submission of new bids and tenders

People Management & Development

Drives culture and values within team, including focus on managing co-located team and ensuring effective integration with wider Groundwork team

Supports delivery of strategic workforce development plans

Uses feedback (trends, insight etc) to influence policy and action

Responsible for team performance - including well-being, development & performance -in line with contractual requirements and externally evaluated systems Ofsted / Education Inspection Framework

Is responsible for most effective use of people within workshop - both Groundwork and Sodexo.

Internal Management

Embeds policies and procedures across programme area

Leads development & delivery of business improvement priority plans (as identified within our strategy)

Collates, analyses and learns from data to improve internal and external service delivery

Champions the use of data to drive improvements to delivery, including data related to people (HR), service delivery and development (impact) and processes (business performance)

Remains on top of market and emerging trends/latest insights for construction, education and justice sector and uses these to inform service development plans

To apply for this role, please download the documents found here and return them to gmrecruitment@groundwork.org.uk

https://www.groundwork.org.uk/jobs/construction-training-manager/

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: From 33,949.00 per year

Benefits:

Additional leave Bereavement leave Company events Cycle to work scheme Health & wellbeing programme On-site parking Paid volunteer time
Schedule:

Monday to Friday
Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 31/12/2025
Reference ID: https://www.groundwork.org.uk/jobs/construction-training-manager/