202307: Prison Officer

3 weeks ago

Rochdale, United Kingdom HM Prison & Probation Service Full time

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 302720**Salary**:

- £28,880- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Administrative Assistant**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Type of role**:

- Operational Delivery
- Other**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 20Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
Things you need to know

Location
- Rochdale, North West England, OL12 9DP : Upper Arncott, South East England, OX25 1PZAbout the job

**Job summary**:

- Please see Job Description.**Job description**:
**HMP Buckley Hall Prison Futures**

We are recruiting not just for officers who are needed today, but for prison officers to fill vacancies at HMP Buckley Hall in years to come. We need officers now to fill vacancies at other prisons and that is why we are recruiting to this special futures scheme that guarantees you a prison officer role at HMP Buckley Hall permanently but for the first two years of your service you will be working at HMP Bullingdon.

It's a great opportunity. You will benefit from a greater variety of experience, you will also get your accommodation costs paid for up to 23 months, receive a recruitment and retention payment paid at 12 months and 23 months and a paid monthly trip home. You won’t be on your own and you will be with other new officers who, like you will be returning to HMP Buckley Hall at the end of their 23 month deployment.

**What’s on offer?**
- You will benefit from higher take-home pay than is available via our standard prison officer recruitment process.
- We will pay your accommodation costs (up to £589 per month).
- You will be able to reclaim the cost of a monthly trip home by public transport.

You’ll also benefit from comprehensive paid training, plus a range of other employee benefits and career progression opportunities.

**How to apply**The online assessment centre**

If you pass the online test, we will invite you to an online assessment centre.

We test to see if you have the abilities, behaviours and strengths to be a prison officer.

Once you’ve successful completed the online assessment centre, we will invite you to complete a medical and fitness test. This will cover an eyesight test, hearing test and basic health screening, including a blood pressure check.

We will tell you what to expect and bring before the day.

**Job details**

**Eligibility**

To become a prison officer, you will need to:

- be at least 18 years old
- have the right to work in the UK
- be reasonably fit and able to pass our fitness test
- have good eyesight in both eyes (both with and without corrective lenses)

For safety reasons, everyone training to be a prison officer needs a suitable standard of hearing (without the use of hearing aids).

To work in a high security prison (category A) you must have been a resident in the UK for the last 3 years.

**Nationality requirements**

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

- UK nationals
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
- certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals

**Visa sponsorship**

Please note we are unable to sponsor any individuals via the Skilled Worker Sponsorship / Tier 2 (General) work visa.

Successful applicants must ensure they have and maintain the legal right to live and work in the Civil Service and in the United Kingdom.

**Essential skills**

You don’t need qualifications to become a prison officer.** **Personal qualities are more important. You need to show:

- communication and influencing skills
- commitment to quality
- effective decision-making
- care and understanding

**Pay**

Your pay will depend on your weekly shift hours. The figures below are based on a 39 hour week (you will start on a 37 hour contract until you have completed your initial training. You can then choose to increase your hours to 39 or 41 hours a week.)

**Salaries quoted include an unsocial hours allowance**

Starting salary at HMP Bullingdon

£34,202 (for a 39 hour week inc 20% unsocial hours) plus a £1500 Recruitment & Retention Premium while on deployment paid at 12 month and 23 month point.

Salary once returned to HMP Buckley Hall

£30,702 (for a 39 hour week inc 20% unsocial hours)

Opportunities, once trained to earn Payment Plus.

(Payment Plus is paid at £22 per hour)

You will also get:

- your accommodation costs paid (up to £589 per month)
- the cost of a monthly trip home by public transport.

Total length of deployment 23 months, after which you will return to HMP Buckley Hall, your permanent prison. You may also be able to transfer to your deployed prison permanently if you wish

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