Prison Officer

1 week ago

Bristol, United Kingdom Appcastenterprise Full time

**Location: **HMP Ashfield

**Salary: **Up to £29,000 per annum
**Type: **Permanent.Full time positions available (average 40 per week, with various shifts). Traditional and 4 day working week shift patterns available.

**What’s in it for you?**

You will start your training at £24,500 per annum, and at your pace we are committed to progressing you through your training portfolio to reach £29,000 as quickly as possible.
- Clear career development pathways for you to transition quickly into operational management positions where your basic pay will rise to £42,000.
- 4 day working week with flexible shift patterns available.
- Opportunity to earn overtime.
- Free parking on site.
- Free use of the gym.
- Free food whilst on shift.
- Pension scheme.
- Health & Wellbeing Benefits.
- Reward & Recognition scheme.
- Serco discounts which include cinema, blue light discounts, cycle to work scheme, online shopping discounts, leisure centre memberships and much more.

**Is this the right career for you?**
This is a unique opportunity to be part of a team at HMP Ashfield.Our Prison Officer community come from a variety of different backgrounds, so prison experience isn’t needed. We’re focused on your transferrable skills and behaviours such as communication,teamwork and the resilience and patience to help people.

As a Prison Officer, you’ll be at the forefront of ensuring the health, safety, and wellbeing of everyone around you. It’s also a job where your contribution really counts, as you work to give prisoners structure within their lives, encourage positive choices,and support them on their journey to rehabilitation. **Day to day you’ll be involved in**:

- Supervising prisoners in all aspects of prison wing activity.
- Overseeing work and education programmes, encouraging prisoners to participate.
- Operational matters such as prisoner headcounts, cell searching, security, and administrative processes.
- Managing prisoners who are at risk of self-harm.
- Our accredited training programme will equip you with new skills and confidence to enable you to build a career with us as a respected Prison Officer. You’ll receive an 8-10-week Initial Training Course (ITC), covering everything from control and restraintto first aid. You’ll also receive the help of our great team, with job shadowing and buddy programmes to support you.

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**Preparing for your recruitment journey**:

- Bleep Test?- You will be required to complete 15 metre shuttle runs in time with the bleeps and will last approximately 3 minutes and 40 seconds and will have to reach level 5.4.
- Agility Test?- Running around set course of cones under a particular time scale.
- Shield Hold Test?- Holding shield out in front of you at a 45-degree angle for 1 minute
- Grip Test - 20KG (on both hands)

Once you have passed the selection and vetting process, we will invite you to attend an 10-week Initial Training Course (ITC) at the establishment you have been recruited for, and you will be required to have 100% attendance. The ITC will provide high qualitytraining where you will complete a Diploma in Custodial Care and undergo Control and Restraint training. You will also shadow experienced Prison Officers on shift to give you a real taste of life on the job.

The service that we provide to our prisoners is available every day of the year across a 24-hour period, meaning you will have to cover various shift patterns, including days, evenings, weekends, nights, and bank holidays - with an average of 40 hours perweek. We will value the importance of work-life balance and on successful completion of your ITC, we’ll consider Flexible Working Requests.

**Why Serco?**
- Meaningful and vital work: Prison Officers are key to ensuring the health, safety and wellbeing of prisoners, staff, and visitors in their prisons. More importantly they play a vital role in reducing reoffending rates amongst prisoners, which is key toprotecting public finances.
- A world of opportunity: Our prisons hold a huge amount of variety and opportunity, with Officers being able to progress into Ops Management or into specialist services such as Psychology, Education, Health, or the Animal unit. It’s an ever-evolving career.
- Great people: Because of our investment in safeguarding and rehabilitation, our prisons are calmer and can be very different to how you might imagine. You’ll also receive all the training and advice you’ll need from your friendly and supportive colleagues.

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