SPI: Commercial Horticulture - HMP Isle of Wight

🔒 Confidential Employer
Posted 8 May 2026
LOCATION
Newport (Isle of Wight)
TYPE
Part-time
LEVEL
Associate
SALARY
£33,275 / year
CATEGORY
Agriculture & Environment
This employer holds a UK Home Office sponsor license — sponsorship for this specific role is at the employer’s discretion

SKILLS

Soil husbandry Crop protection Pest control Prisoner supervision Vocational assessment Health & Safety COSHH Tractor driving Horticulture qualification

FULL DESCRIPTION

SPI: Commercial Horticulture - HMP Isle of Wight

[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] - Part-time, Permanent - Newport (Isle of Wight) - Salary: £33,275 Pro-rata - Closing Date: 21-May-2026

Job Overview

This is a non-operational instructional job in an establishment. 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.

Responsibilities

  • 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.
  • Maintain effective biological pest control measures and any necessary chemical crop protection programmes.
  • Resolve any prisoner work issues, setting task to match their ability.
  • Ensure produce grown on-site is prepared and packaged appropriately.
  • Maintain sports fields as per agreed plan.
  • Carry out preventative pest control measures.

Requirements

Essential Experience: Supervisory role, soil and growing medium husbandry, crop protection, crop production technology, preparation of fresh produce for sale. Experience using industrial standard machinery.

Technical Requirements: Level 3 qualification in horticulture or equivalent, PA2 and PA6 pesticide qualifications, knowledge of Health & Safety and COSHH regulations, full UK driving license. Must be an accredited Assessor or willing to become one.

Behaviours: Making Effective Decisions, Communicating and Influencing, Working Together, Managing a Quality Service, Developing Self and Others.

Additional Information

The [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] offers Hybrid Working arrangements where business need allows. Standard full time working hours are 37 per week. HMPPS welcomes part-time, flexible and job-sharing working patterns. Benefits include annual leave, bank holidays, pension, work life balance, season ticket advance, childcare vouchers, and training.

Contact: [contact hidden] or [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]. Quote job reference 17420.

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