Pros
Teaching and admin staff care about their job and are mostly fantastic people trying to make a difference.
Cons
Where do we start, entire company of NOVUS education is ran by idiocy and incompetence. Managers have absolutely no idea what they are doing, nor are they given any sufficient training to even attempt to deliver acceptable education to anyone or safeguard and manage staff effectively. Safety and staff wellbeing within the NOVUS education dept. In the prison is non-existent. Staff working in unsafe environments, 60 male sex offenders and no working alarms, no heating working for months, two radios between 25 staff members. Staff left alone to go onto wings with only a radio, never given adequate training within the prison. So called ‘quality’ managers deliver CPD by sticking a video on and talking about lesson expectations, the hypocrisy is astounding and it would be funny despite the fact that this blatant incompetence spreads through the entirety of management and senior leadership. Management bully, intimidate and harass staff members and most establishments favour nepotism and cheap labour over anyone actually qualified to do their job. Men are put in for the wrong exams constantly, teaching is poor and exam marking is forged/altered. Actual salaries are horrendous and don’t even talk about the contracts, everyone is on a different contract, you don’t get paid for hours you work over your contracted yearly hours. If you are cover staff you’re expected to plan lessons, mark and participate in CPD during your lunch which is UNPAID. If you are anyone outspoken or someone that questions practices/workload/priorities you are pushed/bullied out. I have never worked anywhere with such terrible management and toxic work culture and was glad to get out when I did.