8654 - Specialist Instructor: Amenity Horticulture and Conservation - HMP Berwyn
| Posting date: | 01 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | £33,275 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 19 September 2025 |
| Location: | LL13 9QE |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Ministry of Justice |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 8654 |
Summary
Overview of the job
This is a Facilities and Services delivery job in an establishment with supervisory responsibilities.
Summary
The job holder will be responsible for the day to day maintenance of the grounds and conservation areas within an establishment and will also be responsible for the dayto-day activities within the Waste Management unit.
This is a non-operational job with no line management responsibilities.
Responsibilities, Activities and Duties
The job holder will be required to carry out the following responsibilities, activities and duties:
• Carry out a full range of gardening activities, gardening duties including use of machinery.
• Carry out soft landscaping - turf laying and hard landscaping – laying patio stones.
• Maintain establishment’s grounds and conservation areas including maintenance of lawns, ponds, water features and external grounds to the establishment including woodland.
• Deliver all actions in the establishment’s bio-diversity action plan with reference to the development of the conservation area.
• Monitor flora and fauna work within the establishment.
• Work inside/outside establishment grounds, cutting, mowing and maintaining areas in accordance with accepted practice.
• Submit surveys for Land Based Activities specific to site.
• Carry out preventive pest control measures across area of responsibility.
• Act on wildlife and conservation group’s recommendations and implement these within the establishment’s grounds.
• Undertake small project work as advised/requested including soft and hard landscape development including erection of horticultural support structures where the situation warrants.
• Set work schedules and manage targets/quality standards, maintaining delivery of contractual arrangements.
• Actively contribute to recycling/waste efficiency meetings and Sustainable Development Committee Meetings.
• Collect, process and dispose of waste materials from all areas of the establishment in the most appropriate and effective way, with regard to legislative compliance and environmental issues.
• Liaise with contractors when ordering services, including skip collection.
• Provide general advice and guidance to staff on how to manage waste more effectively and actively promote recycling within the establishment.
Undertake other tasks including:
• Set work schedules and manage targets/quality standards, maintaining delivery of contractual arrangements.
• Maintain regular communications via radio net in accordance with Local Security Strategy (LSS).
• Provide quality assurance against product specification.
• Carry out fabric and tool checks of workshops and maintain security of areas, logging any tool/equipment faults. Undertake planned maintenance programme on machinery.
• Contribute to Health and Safety risk assessments relating to the workshop/ work of area and specialist areas.
• Request materials and estimate usage in order to meet work targets.
• Initiate product development reviews to maintain workshop/area of work output levels, and to provide variety of work and experience for prisoners. • Participate in self-audit and in achieving Service Delivery Indicators (SDIs).
• Complete administration activities to support the smooth running of the workshop.
The duties/responsibilities listed above describe the post as it is at present and is not intended to be exhaustive. The job holder is expected to accept reasonable alterations and additional tasks of a similar level that may be necessary. Significant adjustments may require re-examination under the Job Evaluation Scheme and shall be discussed in the first instance with the job holder.
An ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence through the medium of English or (where specified in Wales) Welsh.
This is a Facilities and Services delivery job in an establishment with supervisory responsibilities.
Summary
The job holder will be responsible for the day to day maintenance of the grounds and conservation areas within an establishment and will also be responsible for the dayto-day activities within the Waste Management unit.
This is a non-operational job with no line management responsibilities.
Responsibilities, Activities and Duties
The job holder will be required to carry out the following responsibilities, activities and duties:
• Carry out a full range of gardening activities, gardening duties including use of machinery.
• Carry out soft landscaping - turf laying and hard landscaping – laying patio stones.
• Maintain establishment’s grounds and conservation areas including maintenance of lawns, ponds, water features and external grounds to the establishment including woodland.
• Deliver all actions in the establishment’s bio-diversity action plan with reference to the development of the conservation area.
• Monitor flora and fauna work within the establishment.
• Work inside/outside establishment grounds, cutting, mowing and maintaining areas in accordance with accepted practice.
• Submit surveys for Land Based Activities specific to site.
• Carry out preventive pest control measures across area of responsibility.
• Act on wildlife and conservation group’s recommendations and implement these within the establishment’s grounds.
• Undertake small project work as advised/requested including soft and hard landscape development including erection of horticultural support structures where the situation warrants.
• Set work schedules and manage targets/quality standards, maintaining delivery of contractual arrangements.
• Actively contribute to recycling/waste efficiency meetings and Sustainable Development Committee Meetings.
• Collect, process and dispose of waste materials from all areas of the establishment in the most appropriate and effective way, with regard to legislative compliance and environmental issues.
• Liaise with contractors when ordering services, including skip collection.
• Provide general advice and guidance to staff on how to manage waste more effectively and actively promote recycling within the establishment.
Undertake other tasks including:
• Set work schedules and manage targets/quality standards, maintaining delivery of contractual arrangements.
• Maintain regular communications via radio net in accordance with Local Security Strategy (LSS).
• Provide quality assurance against product specification.
• Carry out fabric and tool checks of workshops and maintain security of areas, logging any tool/equipment faults. Undertake planned maintenance programme on machinery.
• Contribute to Health and Safety risk assessments relating to the workshop/ work of area and specialist areas.
• Request materials and estimate usage in order to meet work targets.
• Initiate product development reviews to maintain workshop/area of work output levels, and to provide variety of work and experience for prisoners. • Participate in self-audit and in achieving Service Delivery Indicators (SDIs).
• Complete administration activities to support the smooth running of the workshop.
The duties/responsibilities listed above describe the post as it is at present and is not intended to be exhaustive. The job holder is expected to accept reasonable alterations and additional tasks of a similar level that may be necessary. Significant adjustments may require re-examination under the Job Evaluation Scheme and shall be discussed in the first instance with the job holder.
An ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence through the medium of English or (where specified in Wales) Welsh.