Inclusion Practitioner - Prison Education – HMP Isle of Wight

Job Posted: 28 October 2025

• Contract Term: Permanent
• Location: Isle of Wight
• Contract Type: Part time
• Salary: Up to £17,399 pro rata (£26,363 FTE) dependent on experience
• Industries: Education

Location: HMP Isle of Wight

Hours: 20 hours per week, 52 weeks per year 

Working Pattern: Monday-Friday mornings. 08:15 to 12.15

Salary: Up to £17,399 pro rata (£26,363 FTE) dependent on experience

Apprenticeships: Development opportunities are available through Apprenticeship standards

Reporting To: Education Manager

 IN SHORT

Milton Keynes College have an exciting opportunity for an Inclusion Practitioner to join our Prison Education team at HMP IW. As a successful Inclusion Practitioner, you will provide inspirational learning support to small groups of learners and on a 1:1 basis. This will require a holistic approach to highlight specific learning needs and improving learner skills. Your focus will be on Maths and English, leading to employability outcomes, with effective target setting to meet individual needs.

You will be a passionate, creative and empathetic towards our learners and be able to offer knowledge and guidance to our learners. A knowledge of strategies to support a wide range of neurodiversity needs would be an advantage.

As an Inclusion Practitioner, you will be working across the whole prison estate, on all wings and in classes where education is delivered.

MK College will treat all applicants fairly and with respect, irrespective of their background, disability or any other individual characteristic. We particularly encourage applications from people with backgrounds which are currently under-represented within Milton Keynes College.  All offers made to successful candidates are subject to satisfactory outcomes to a range of pre-employment checks including a Disclosure and Barring Service check (DBS).   In addition, security clearance is required for all prison services positions up to Counter Terrorist Check (CTC) level.

OUR BENEFITS 

• 30 days annual leave, 3 additional days leave for Christmas to New Year closure and UK Bank Holidays (entitlement will be pro-rated for part-time employees)
• Generous Pension Scheme
• Professional development opportunities, including professional qualifications
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) accessible 24 hours per day, 365 days per year
• A variety of amazing discounts with NUS Card
• Employee wellbeing platform with options to book free activities

MAKE A DIFFERENCE

In this role, you will:

• Deliver, design and develop differentiated Learning Support, to meet the needs of the Prison Education Service (PES) learners and to satisfy internal and external quality assurance requirements.

• Develop good working relationships with the teaching staff to provide proactive English and maths learning support activities and guidance.

• Manage the assessment service, identifying how learning needs can be effectively supported and monitored.

• Provide a range of support services for leaners with a learning difficulty or disability, to enable them to access to available educational opportunities.

• Use a range of specialist assessment tools to establish learner need and support required for their additional learning.

• Work with identified learners to deliver challenging and exciting learning sessions through small group work and 1:1 sessions.

• Liaise with the management team and be responsible for supporting the recruitment of learners and the promotion of courses; enabling the learners to access the correct level of course and support required.

• Prepare support sessions and set challenging targets, including SMART targets to support success and achievement in line with the learners needs and record these targets on the learner journey documentation.

• Use clearly structured learning activities that interest and motivate learners, and advance their learning, supporting the preparation of resources when appropriate.

• Ensure learners are fully enrolled onto programmes, accurate records are maintained; with completions, withdrawals and achievement documentation completed in a timely manner.

• Complete the learning support paperwork and be responsible for the monitoring, tracking and reviews of all identified learners who receive support to ensure that it meets audit and PES requirements

• Be aware and fully committed to Milton Keynes College’s Regulations, Strategy and Objectives to work together to advance Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and support the challenging of racism, prejudice and inequality, wherever it is found.

This job description is just a guide; you’ll be expected to be flexible and perform any other duties as reasonably required of you by your manager and your role is likely to evolve and develop over time. In all your duties, you will be required to take reasonable care of yourself and ensure the safety of our students, your colleagues and other people with whom you come into contact at the College.

IT'S ALL ABOUT YOU

ABOUT US

Welcoming those who want to learn and improve, we focus on meeting individual needs. The College is at the heart of the city’s economic vision and community strategy, in addition to being a major employer with over 1,000 people working with us.  We build and nurture strong partnerships with the wider community and local businesses with an interest in making the Milton Keynes College Group a safe, innovative and inspiring place in which to learn and work.  We are proud to offer an open and inclusive education experience to learners of all levels and backgrounds, with over 3,000 16-19 year olds currently studying with us and a total student population of over 8,000. We offer a broad variety of qualifications, including vocational courses, apprenticeships, higher education, professional certificates as well as employability skills and community training.

Founded on the principle of Further Education’s ability to transform lives through learning, we’re proud to create an environment that attracts the best staff and students from Milton Keynes and the surrounding areas and supports education in Prisons nationally.  The value we gain from the diverse communities we serve is immeasurable. We want all our staff, students and learners to feel they are an integral part of the College and together we will create an inclusive culture where everyone can contribute to College life and our collective knowledge and growth. When applying for a role at the College, you can expect the same level of commitment towards diversity and inclusion as you’ll experience when you’ve started with us. We treat all our applicants fairly and with respect, irrespective of their background, disability or any other individual characteristic. We particularly encourage applications from people with backgrounds which are currently under-represented within Milton Keynes College.

Code Makers Academy is a subsidiary of Milton Keynes College and is the delivery arm of the South Central Institute of Technology. The South Central IoT is a consortium of prestigious partners led by Milton Keynes College. Anchor partners include Microsoft, McAfee, Evidence Talks, Activate Learning, Cranfield University and KPMG.

The College is also a national provider of education services in prisons across the country. For nearly 30 years, we have worked with offenders in both custody, the wider community and currently work with 30 prisons across England. This includes 13 prisons which make up the Long-Term High Security Estate, 16 category B, C and D prisons and the new HMP Fosse Way.

Milton Keynes College is a committed safer recruitment employer in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE). We take extreme care in ensuring the safety and welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. 

All offers made to successful candidates are subject to satisfactory outcomes from a range of pre-employment checks including a Disclosure and Barring Service check (DBS).  In addition, security clearance is required for all prison services positions up to Counter Terrorist Check (CTC) level.