Escort (Facilities Management)

Job Description:

Escort (Facilities Management)
Care and Rehabilitation Services
HMP Rye Hill, Rugby, CV23 8SZ
Salary £18,090.18 per annum
Permanent, Part Time, 27 hours per week
Benefits: Company Pension, free on-site parking, on-site canteen, ongoing training and development and access to High Street Shop discounts. 

Within Care and Rehabilitation Services, the philosophy of our prisons is to rehabilitate offenders and equip them to re-integrate into mainstream society on release. We seek to normalise prison conditions as far as possible to reflect life in the outside community. Our aim is to create an environment in which staff and prisoners feel safe and causes of prison stress are minimised. Central to our philosophy is the relationship between staff and prisoners. Our training and operational practices emphasise the need to treat prisoners with dignity and respect and staff build positive and supportive relationships with the prisoners in their care.  

HMP Rye Hill is a category 'C' training prison situated in the village of Willoughby, near Rugby in Warwickshire, holding approximately 1122 sentenced male adults. 

We now have an opportunity for an Escort to join our Facilities Management team at HMP Rye Hill. 

As an Escort you will work as directed to assist with the contractor control process in escorting and controlling the contractor and visitor movements across the prison estate that fall under the responsibility of the business. You will be working within the administration team of the Total Facilities Management (TFM) services to meet operational and business requirements. 

Key Responsibilities

• Operate within CaRS procedures to escort contractors/visitors’ movements across the prison estate that is the responsibility of CaRS.
• Deal effectively and safely with contractor / visitor movements to maintain health & safety requirements.
• Assist in the development of contractor control procedure routines, processes, risk assessments, and records. 
• Work with other craft qualified, semi-skilled and unskilled maintenance staff if required in aspects of maintenance activities on a team work basis.
• Security awareness within a prison environment in respect to key locking and tool control when escorting maintenance contractors within the prison estate.
• Carry out routine inspections of the contractor works to make sure that all safety guidance and practises are followed to maintain an effective and efficient safe environment. 
• Assist in the promotion of creating a positive Health & Safety culture across the site leading by example, this includes the reporting of accidents and near misses in a timely manner and the application of safe systems of work for the role.

Essential Skills

• Experienced within a maintenance establishment.
• Following policy and procedures.
• Experience within a health & Safety environment to understand and control contractors within the estate.

Desirable Skills

• BSC level 1 Health & Safety.
• Full, clean driving license.
• Experience of building and facilities maintenance

If you join us, you can be sure that you’ll find a secure, friendly and professional working environment and be given all the support, training and encouragement you need to build and develop a successful career with us. 

Equality and Diversity is an important part of Care and Rehabilitation Services. We actively encourage applications from all backgrounds and are a fully inclusive employer who aims to support all employees to be their true selves. We are happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments for either the role or during the recruitment process 

Care and Rehabilitation Services is committed to safeguarding and promoting the wellbeing of children and adults at risk and each employee is expected to support these goals. 

Please note that these vacancies are subject to a 10-year checkable history and the strict vetting standards set by the business and the Secretary of State for the Home Office and are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act.  

You must be eligible to work in the UK, and you will need to provide full details of your employment and education history for the last 10 years as part of the security screening process for this role.

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