202307: First Time Prison Officer Recruitment

3 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom HM Prison & Probation Service Full time

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

- 303080**Salary**:

- £28,880**Job grade**:

- Administrative Assistant- Band 3**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**:
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Location
- London, South East England, SM2 5PDAbout the job

**Job summary**:

- Please see Job Description.**Job description**:
**First Time Prison Officer Recruitment Scheme - Female prisons**

**Get your prison officer career off to a great start by working at one of our larger prisons and benefit from higher take-home pay, plus your accommodation costs paid for.**

Join a women’s prison that’s 75 minutes or more from where you currently live and you’ll also gain a greater variety of experience than you would working at a smaller prison. Wherever possible, we will aim to find you a role at one of your choices of prison. If they have no immediate vacancies at the time, we will offer you a position at another prison that has an immediate need for prison officers.

**What’s on offer?**
- You will benefit from higher take-home pay than is available via our standard prison officer recruitment process.
- You will be able to reclaim the cost of a monthly trip home by public transport.
- After 2 years you can decide whether to stay at the prison permanently or move to one that’s nearer to your home.

**How to apply**
- You’ll also benefit from comprehensive paid training, plus a range of other employee benefitsand career progression opportunities, including Civil Service benefits.

**The online assessment centre**
- If you pass the online tests, 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.

After this you will be invited to provide a written response to 3 behaviour-based questions. We will explore your understanding of the prison officer role in a women’s prisons and why you are interested in the role.

Once you’ve successfully completed the online assessment centre and written responses and we’ve offered you a role, 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.

**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.

**Pay**

You will benefit from higher take-home pay than you would if you applied via our standard prison officer recruitment process. You will receive an additional retention payment of £1,500 for each full year you stay at the prison - for a maximum of 3 years.

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. The standard working week of a prison officer is based on a 39 hour shift pattern.

**£36,140 (includes an unsocial hours allowance and market supplement)**

HMP Downview - Sutton, Surrey

**Prison officer benefits**
- 25 days’ annual holiday (rising to 30 days after 10 years’ service)
- paid time off for public holidays and 1 extra privilege day
- one of the best pension schemes in the country
- rental deposit loans
- cycle to work scheme, travel loans and other benefits

Read more about prison officer benefits

**Training**

All new prison officers in England and Wales will begin their career by completing a skill’s led foundation training programme.

**Week 1 to **9**: following a local induction at your ‘home’ prison you will go on a foundation training programme at a designated learning centre. This will usually be close to your ‘home’ prison location.

**Week **10**: you wi

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