11990 - Band 4 - FSS Catering - HMP Wayland

£22,640 - £25,225
2
12 Months
East of England
Thetford
HM PRISON WAYLAND - KITCHEN THETFORD, IP25 6RL
EO
Band 4
Permanent
Full Time
Industrial

Overview of the job: This is a Facilities and Services delivery job in an establishment with supervisory responsibilities.

Summary: The job holder will be a qualified Cater and will have responsibility for the supervision of staff, prisoners and activities to deliver catering services (and Staff Mess.)

They will ensure the provision of catering services within an establishment, contributing to the quality and quantity of meals served. They will also have supervisory responsibilities for a prisoner workforce.

This is a non-operational role with no line management responsibilities; however they will have supervisory responsibilities for staff.

Responsibilities, Activities and Duties:

  • The job holder will be required to carry out the following responsibilities, activities and duties:
  • Allocate daily staff resources to activity within their Unit where appropriate
  • Supervise and support staff and prisoner in all activities within the kitchen; including food preparation and delivery
  • Create menus, incorporating any special requirements and provide meal descriptions for prisoners
  • Check receipt of deliveries, stores and stock control
  • Visit residential areas to check on hygiene standards and food servery activity; offer guidance, carry out checks and support wing staff and servery workers
  • Provide Food Safety, Health and Hygiene training
  • Reports equipment breakdown and records maintenance requirements
  • Assist the Catering Manager to produce meals for different events
  • Undertake all the duties of a Caterer as required

 

Undertake other Supervisory tasks including :

  • Supervise all staff within their area of responsibility, ensuring they are briefed on the work for the day and that relevant work area is maintained to a high standard
  • Prioritise activities in-line with local procedures ensuring workload/regime is delivered escalating issues to the Catering manager when required
  • Contribute to the development of local practice, process and initiatives, ensure consistency across the unit in the application of policies and procedures affecting prisoners and staff
  • Carry out prisoner interviews, inductions and supervise prisoners within the area of work, ensuring that they are appropriately inducted and deployed, completes basic documentation relating to prisoners where required such as logging hours worked
  • Ensures prisoner security is maintained including conducting prisoner rub down and pat down searches in accordance with policy.
  • Contribute to staff appraisals providing relevant performance information to Line Managers
  • Manage the tool inventory and maintains security standards within the work area

Competencies:

All of the competencies in the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) Competency and Qualities Framework are relevant to this group profile. For the purpose of selection the following competencies will be measured:

  • 4. Leading and Communicating
  • 9. Managing a Quality Service
  • 10. Delivering at Pace
  • 11. Achieving a Safe and Secure Environment
  • 14. Persuading and Influencing

Essential Skills/Qualifications/Accreditation/Registration
Job holder must hold as a minimum the following essential qualifications; level 2 certificate in Food Production within Hospitality and Catering or equivalent and either have attained higher qualifications or be working towards them as noted.

Staff can work towards a relevant vocational qualification at level 3 or already hold formal qualifications in catering e.g. City and Guilds 7061 / 7062 or NVQ Level 3. Additionally they must hold a Food Hygiene Certificate Level 3 (intermediate level) they are required be familiar with all current health, safety and hygiene related regulations for working in a kitchen environment. Refresher training in Food Safety (HACCP) should be completed at 3 year intervals.

NOMS staff newly promoted to a Band 4 Supervising Officer or Facilities and Services

Hours of Work: 37 hour working week (with an additional 2 hours of overtime available per week)

In addition you will receive 17% unsocial workings allowance

You will also be able to access 2 hours overtime per week.

Dependant upon experience, a 5% uplift in starting salary can be agreed.

Working Arrangements & Further Information

Some of MoJ’s, including NOMS, terms and conditions of service are changing as part of Civil Service reform. The changes will apply to staff joining MoJ who are new to the Civil Service. Staff joining MoJ from other civil service employers will transfer onto the new MoJ terms if they are already on 'modernised' terms in their current post or onto 'unmodernised' MoJ terms if they are on 'unmodernised' terms at their current post. Details will be available if an offer is made.

Standard working hours for this post are 37 hours per week excluding breaks which are unpaid.

If you are a current NPS employee, this vacancy may be available on a Loan basis for up to 2 years. Applications are invited from suitable qualified staff.

The Loan/Secondment is subject to the approval of the selected candidate's Business Unit, which should be obtained before confirmation of appointment.

Benefits

Annual Leave

-The holiday year runs from 1 March. If you work a non standard work pattern your leave entitlement may be expressed in either hours or days as appropriate. Leave entitlement is calculated on a pro-rata basis and you will be advised of your actual entitlement on appointment. If you were appointed internally and your leave was previously calculated in days, this will continue to be the case.

Bank, Public and Privilege Holidays

-You are entitled to 9 days (66 hours 36 minutes) in recognition of bank, public and privilege holidays. These hours are added to your annual leave allowance. There is a requirement to work some public and bank holidays subject to your shift pattern and the operational needs of the establishment

Pension

-The Civil Service offers a choice of two pension schemes, giving you the flexibility to choose the pension that suits you best.

Work Life Balance

-The Prison Service is keen to encourage alternative working arrangements. Work life balance provides greater opportunities for staff to work more flexibly wherever managers and establishments can accommodate requests to do so. The Prison Service offers flexible working subject to completion of a satisfactory probationary period and NVQ

Season Ticket Advance

-After two months’ service, you’ll be eligible to apply for a season ticket advance to purchase a quarterly or longer-period season ticket for travel between home and your place of work

Childcare Vouchers

-The Prison Service offers a childcare vouchers scheme. The scheme enables staff to take part of their salary in the form of Childcare Vouchers. This is known as a Salary Sacrifice. The vouchers can then be used to help meet the costs of any form of registered or approved childcare for children aged 0-16. The vouchers are exempt from tax and National Insurance contributions

Training

-The Prison Service is committed to staff development and offers a range of training and development opportunities, including areas such as Equality and Diversity, Dealing with Challenging Behaviour, Suicide Prevention and Anti Bullying Programmes

-There are opportunities to access promotion programmes and the Prison Service provide a variety of training appropriate to individual posts

-All staff receive security and diversity training and an individual induction programme into their new roles

 

Eligibility

-All candidates are subject to security and identity checks prior to taking up post

-All external candidates are subject to 6 months probation. Internal candidates are subject to probation if they have not already served a probationary period within NOMS

-All staff are required to declare whether they are a member of a group or organisation which the Prison Service considers to be racist

Civil Service Code

The Civil Service Code, first published in 1996, sets out the core Civil Service values and the standards of behaviour expected of all civil servants in upholding these values.

  • Integrity – putting the obligations of public service above personal interests.
  • Honesty – being truthful and open.
  • Objectivity – basing advice and decisions on rigorous analysis of the evidence.
  • Impartiality – acting solely according to the merits of the case and serving governments of different political parties equally well.

To review the Civil Service Code visit: http://www.civilservice.gov.uk/about/values

Expected: An open day will take place on 7 September 2017 at HMP Wayland. The open day will included an interview and a familairisation tour of the working environment.

25/08/2017, 23:55 hours.

Closing Date: 25th August 2017 at 23:55 hours

For further details regarding the post and working at Wayland, please contact Judith Thompson on 01953 804125 or 01953 804126

If you require any assistance please call 0845 241 5358 (Monday to Friday 8am - 6pm) or e mail hr-recruitment-enquiries@noms.gsi.gov.uk. Please quote the job reference 11990

Enhanced Baseline Standard

Candidate Information

You may be required to provide statements describing your skills and experience relevant to each of the selection criteria. We recommend that you structure any examples as Situation, Task, Action and Result. For more information about the recruitment process and answers to general queries, please click the below link which will direct you to our Candidate Information Page.

Link: https://justicejobs.tal.net/vx/candidate/cms/About%20the%20MOJ

In the event of a large number of applications, we reserve the right to undertake the following processes:


  • An automated online test where a benchmark must be passed to progress;
  • A sift on the lead selection criteria. If this happens, the lead criteria will be the first one listed in the advert.

During the selection process, you may be asked to undertake an additional assessment (such as written test). If this is applicable you will be notified of this when you are invited to interview.



if you feel that your application has not been treated in line with the Civil Service Recruitment Principles, please contact SSCL (Moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@gov.sscl.com) in the first instance
Leading and Communicating
Managing a Quality Service
Delivering at Pace
Achieving a Safe and Secure Environment

Being effective in this area is a key responsibility for all of us to both protect the public and prevent victims. We must all promote and contribute to an orderly, safe and secure environment both within our own unit / establishment and across the whole of the Agency. Those who work in establishments must support the principles of dynamic security by treating the needs of prisoners individually; developing controlled, professional relationships with prisoners; and contributing to a constructive regime. At senior levels, it is about creating strategies, policies and processes that contribute to the achievement of a safe and secure living and working environment.

Persuading and Influencing

Effectiveness in this area means listening to each other, using reason and cooperation to reach agreement. We must all seeks to understand others’ perspectives whilst following through on agreements. Those who work in establishments must take time to understand the prisoners’ point of view and encourage prisoners to understand own / establishment’s perspective. At a senior level it is about promoting a culture of open interaction and effective consultation across all levels of the organisation. It is about influencing and involving the right people necessary to get things done.

Job holder must hold as a minimum the following essential qualifications; level 2 certificate in Food Production within Hospitality and Catering or equivalent and either have attained higher qualifications or be working towards them as noted.
Staff can work towards a relevant vocational qualification at level 3 or already hold formal qualifications in catering e.g. City and Guilds 7061 / 7062 or NVQ Level 3. Additionally they must hold a Food Hygiene Certificate Level 3 (intermediate level) they are required be familiar with all current health, safety and hygiene related regulations for working in a kitchen environment. Refresher training in Food Safety (HACCP) should be completed at 3 year intervals.

We have provided detail of the assessment stages and areas being assessed to help you prepare for completing your application form, and to advise of what will be assessed following this, if you successfully pass the application stage.


Application form stage assessments

Interview stage assessments

There is 1 interview stage for this vacancy.

A Great Place to Work for Veterans

The "Making the Civil Service a Great Place to work for veterans" initiative includes a guaranteed interview scheme to those who meet the minimum criteria to provide eligible former members of the Armed Forces with opportunities to secure rewarding jobs. Allowing veterans to continue to serve their country, and to bring highly skilled individuals with a broad range of experience into the Civil Service in an environment, which recognises and values your previous service in the Armed Forces.
For further details about the initiative and eligibility requirements visit : https://www.gov.uk/government/news/making-the-civil-service-a-great-place-to-work-for-veterans

Redeployment Interview Scheme

Civil Service departments are expected to explore redeployment opportunities before making an individual redundant. The MoJ are committed, as part of the Redeployment Interview Scheme, to providing opportunities to those who are 'at risk of redundancy'.

MoJ are able to offer an interview to eligible candidates who meet the minimum selection criteria, except in a limited number of campaigns. Candidate's will not be eligible for the Redeployment Interview Scheme if they are applying on promotion.

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

· UK nationals

· nationals of the Republic of Ireland

· nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK

· nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window) https://www.gov.uk/settled-status-eu-citizens-families

· nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)

· individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020

· Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window) https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nationality-rules

This Vacancy is closed to applications.