Candidates looking for fantastic opportunities to gain experience and
work with unique groups of students may find helping a new generation
of prisoners turn around their lives to be quite rewarding. Prison
instructors, or instructional officers, work in prison education jobs to
help prisoners gain skills that may help them find employment after
release.
Generally, candidates for prison education jobs need to possess good
communication skills and patience as well as be adaptable and flexible
in order to build respectful relationships with prisoners or offenders.
The art of persuading the importance and benefits of education is also
of value. Candidates with specialist subject knowledge or experience in a
trade can provide training in a variety of subjects ranging from
construction skills to IT, upholstery to cookery. Candidates could be
employed by colleges and private companies that are contracted to employ
instructors or employed directly by prisons or young offender
institutions.