Student Support

As a Student Supporthere at PeoplePlus you will be responsible for ensuring that the administration systems and processes operate in a timely and effective manner adhering to all quality standards providing support to our learners teaching staff and the prison allocation teams. As the first point of contact for prisoners our Student Support Workers conduct prisoners induction into the education provision and also the promotion of courses to potential learners across the prison establishment. The role will also include the recruitment of learners for courses maintaining accurate records of achievement linked to initial assessment close liaison with partner agencies and the prison allocation and activity team. Providing ongoing advice and guidance about the courses we offer learners whilst offering appropriate support is essential to ensuring classes are sustainable as well as the scheduling and invigilation of exams. On some sites our Student Support Workers also work with partner organisations to facilitate Open University and distance learning opportunities for our learners.

Here are PeoplePlus 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 were trying to help and away from our direct work with people serving their sentences were 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.

We are extremely proud to be a Silver accredited Investors in People organisation. This means that at PeoplePlus the right principles are in place but more than that it means our people and leaders are making active efforts to make sure that theres real consistency and everyone in the organisation can feel the effects.