Carpentry Tutor/Trainer

Location HMP Millsike

Salary From £30,000

Contract Permanent

The Role

Use your carpentry skills to build someone’s future.

We’re looking for an experienced Site Carpentry Tutor / Vocational Trainer to join our team at HMP Millsike, delivering City & Guilds qualifications up to Level 3 and helping learners develop the practical skills, knowledge and confidence they need to progress into employment.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Carpenter, Joiner, Site Carpenter or Construction professional who is ready to take their career in a different direction and use their industry experience to make a genuine difference.

What you'll be doing

🔨 Deliver engaging practical and theory-based training in Site Carpentry up to Level 3

🏗️ Develop learners' skills across areas including framing, joisting, roofing and general site carpentry

🦺 Promote excellent health & safety, including safe working at height and the correct use of tools and equipment

📚 Support learners with literacy, numeracy and digital skills alongside their vocational training

👥 Adapt your teaching to meet individual learning needs and help every learner achieve their potential

🎯 Prepare learners for employment by developing their technical skills, confidence, teamwork and employability

🤝 Work closely with Learning Support Practitioners and prison colleagues to support learner development and rehabilitation

📋 Complete assessments, ILPs, attendance records and qualification documentation

What we're looking for

We're looking for someone with strong industry experience in site carpentry/construction who can bring their practical knowledge to life in the classroom and workshop.

You don't necessarily need previous experience of working in a prison or education environment — your industry expertise is what matters, and you'll be supported to develop within the role.

You'll need:

Strong experience in Site Carpentry / Construction
Relevant industry qualifications
The ability to demonstrate and teach practical skills
Good communication and interpersonal skills
A genuine interest in supporting people to develop and progress
A commitment to health, safety and professional standards

Why join us?

This isn't just about teaching carpentry.

The skills you teach could help someone secure a job, build a career and change the direction of their life after release.

You'll have the opportunity to take the knowledge you've built throughout your career and pass it on to the next generation of skilled workers, while making a genuine difference through prison education.

Who We Are

Here at People Plus, we make a positive difference to people’s lives – every single day.

We use our experience to support hundreds of thousands of people each year. Our committed teams work across Britain to deliver a range of public services, including employment support, skills training, prison education, starting a business, and support to help employers grow.

To put it simply, we:

Support people to find and keep jobs
Help people to set up their own businesses
Deliver skills training to further people’s careers
Work with employers to build a skilled and happy workforce
Rehabilitate people with convictions
Tackle the root causes of offending
Support carers

We are extremely proud to be a Gold accredited Investors in People organisation. This demonstrates our commitment to creating the very best environment and culture for our colleagues to succeed and thrive.

We are committed to transforming the lives of people with convictions through our work in prisons.

Our services have been designed to tackle the underlying causes of offending behaviour so people can make positive changes to their lives.
With more than 500 people working to support people with convictions in custody and in the community, we bring passion, experience and innovation to public sector rehabilitation services.

We also work with specialist partner organisations to help people move away from their past and look forward to a brighter future.

All of our services are designed in partnership with the people who we’re trying to help and away from our direct work with people serving their sentences, we’re working hard to change attitudes towards people who can often be tarnished unfairly following criminal convictions. Our Social Recruitment Framework brings together organisations to tackle any pre-conceived ideas about hiring people who have previously been involved in crime.

We also work with employers on the Ban the Box initiative to support fair and equal recruitment processes and have engaged industry to influence our employer-led curriculum delivered to our learners.

Our Benefits

A paid PeoplePlus Life Event Day each year

30 days annual leave for Teaching roles / 25 days for support roles

Cycle to Work scheme

Access to hundreds of discounts via the Additions portal

Employee Assistance Programme

Access to online wellbeing centre

Enhanced Wedding leave

Enhanced Maternity scheme

A paid volunteering day each year

Refer a Friend reward scheme

Holiday purchase scheme

Pension
scheme

Life
assurance

Testimonials

"What I love about working in a prison environment is that no 2 days are the same. You are a number of different roles such as counsellor, adviser and at times the person that makes a difference in that individual’s life.

There are also good career opportunities for an individual. I started as a supply tutor and I am now an assistant manager. At PeoplePlus you are given the opportunities to gain new skills and qualifications to enable you to be the best version of yourself."

"I have been lucky enough to work in a number of roles within PeoplePlus within the prison education sector, each of which has provided variety, challenge, and immense job satisfaction. The company recognises, values, and rewards the hard work of its employees, providing great professional development and career progression opportunities as well as a great range of perks and support for wellbeing."