Part Time Creative Arts & Skills / Music Tutor - Prison Education - HMP Grendon

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Location: HMP Grendon, Edgcott, Aylesbury HP18 0TL

Hours: 15hours per week, 52 weeks per year (Mon-Thurs - 3 x afternoons)

Salary: Up to £15,257 pro rata (£38,144 FTE - Subject to experience)

Creative Arts & Skills / Music Tutor

Make Creativity Matter

MK College Group is seeking an enthusiastic and adaptable Creative Arts & Skills / Music Tutor to join our education team at HMP Grendon.

This is a unique opportunity to use creativity as a tool for engagement, confidence-building and personal development within a prison education setting. Working with learners from a wide range of backgrounds, you will deliver practical, inclusive and engaging sessions that encourage participation, develop skills and support positive progression.

Unlike a traditional classroom environment, success in this role is not measured solely by qualifications or completed projects. It's about helping learners develop confidence, explore their creativity, build transferable skills and experience the benefits of positive learning.

About the Role

You will design and deliver creative, hands-on learning activities that may draw on areas such as:

Art and design

Creative making and crafts

Music – e.g Keyboard, Guitar (instruments suitable to the restraints of the environment)

Visual arts

Product design and development

Creative projects and enterprise activities

Other practical and creative disciplines

Learners may join and leave courses at different stages, with varying levels of experience, confidence and ability. You'll therefore be comfortable creating flexible, accessible activities that can engage learners both as one-off sessions and as part of a broader programme.

HMP Grendon operates a Therapeutic Community model, and your work will complement the wider rehabilitative environment by encouraging self-expression, problem-solving, collaboration and personal development.

What Makes This Role Different?

Working within a secure prison environment requires creativity, flexibility and resilience.

Some materials, tools and resources commonly used within creative industries may not be permitted for security reasons. You will need to think creatively, adapt activities and make the most of available resources to provide meaningful and engaging learning experiences.

The role is also offered on a fixed timetable of three afternoons per week, reflecting the prison's operational regime. While there is flexibility over which three days are worked (Monday to Thursday), the teaching hours themselves cannot be altered.

Key Responsibilities

Plan and deliver engaging, practical creative skills sessions tailored to the needs of adult learners.

Develop learners' creative, technical and transferable skills through hands-on activities.

Adapt learning activities to accommodate differing abilities, interests and learner starting points.

Support learners to plan, create and complete individual and group projects.

Encourage confidence, communication, teamwork and problem-solving.

Monitor learner progress and provide constructive feedback.

Maintain learner records and contribute to the assessment process as required.

Create a safe, positive and inclusive learning environment.

Work collaboratively with prison and education colleagues to maximise learner engagement and progression.

Ensure all teaching activities comply with prison security, safeguarding and health and safety requirements.