Reading Strategy Coordinator - HMP Oakwood

SHANNON TRUST; Purston Jaglin; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 45,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company pension up to 5%

30 days holiday + bank holidays

Life insurance

Volunteer days

Discounts via Reward Gateway

Employee Assistance Programme

Job summary

Shannon Trust is seeking a Reading Strategy Coordinator to operate at HMP Oakwood, delivering and developing our prison-based reading and numeracy programme with staff, volunteers and mentors to maximise learning opportunities for people in prison.

The role requires experience in prison settings, relationship-building, resilience and a problem-solving approach. It is prison-based and subject to security clearance; interviews are planned for 8 October 2026.

Qualifications

• Some experience of prison settings.
• Ability to build relationships.
• Resilience, determination and problem-solving approach.

Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery and development of Shannon Trust's prison-based reading and numeracy programme.

Job description

Shannon Trust Reading Strategy Coordinator - HMP Oakwood

Do you want to join an organisation committed to addressing low literacy levels amongst people in prison?

Shannon Trust are delighted to be working with His Majesty’s Prison & Probation Service (HMPPS) to provide peer reading strategy coordination at HMP Oakwood. Working closely with the prison and their staff, people in prison, Shannon Trust volunteers and mentors, this post will lead the delivery and development of our prison-based reading and numeracy programme, maximising opportunities for people in prison to learn to read.

Ideally you will have some experience of prison settings underpinned by the ability to build relationships and personal qualities that include resilience, determination and a problem-solving approach.

The role will be prison-based.

Employee benefits include:

• a company contribution to pension scheme of up to 5%
• 30 days holiday plus bank holidays
• life insurance
• paid volunteering days
• discounts via Reward Gateway
• an Employee Assistance Programme

We welcome job applications from people with lived experience of the criminal justice system and do not routinely ask for details of any criminal convictions. These roles do require prison security clearance, so we will need to ask for details of any relevant criminal convictions before an offer of employment is finalised.

Please note this role is subject to contract award.

Interviews are planned for 8th October 2026.