17419 - SPI: Commercial Horticulture - HMP Isle of Wight

Job description

General Information Salary: £33,275 Working Pattern: Full Time: Vacancy Approach: External: Location: Newport (Isle of Wight): Region: South East: Closing Date: 21-May-2026 Business Unit: Isle of Wight: Post Type: Permanent: Civil Service Grade: EO: Number of jobs available: 1 Reserve List: 12 Months Job ID: 17419 Descriptions & requirements: Job description: Overview of the job: This is a non-operational instructional job in an establishment. Summary: The job holder will be responsible for the day-to-day maintenance, harvesting and cultivating of the establishments gardens, ensuring protected cropping is grown and harvested to the highest standards and assess accredited vocational qualifications to prisoners. This is a non-operational job in an establishment with no line management responsibilities. Responsibilities, Activities and Duties: The job holder will be required to carry out the following responsibilities, activities and duties: - Maintain correct field-scale soil husbandry, ensuring all stages of crop development are followed in accordance with good horticultural practice. - Maintain the growing plant/crop to ensure optimum development and/or cropping, ensuring that the...