202308: Prison Officer

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

- 306785**Salary**:

- £30,902**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**:
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Location
- Lancaster, North West England, LA1 3QZ : Eastchurch, South East England, ME12 4AYAbout the job

**Job summary**:

- Please see Job Description.**Job description**:
**Prison officer - HMP Lancaster Farms **HMP Prison Futures**

**HMP Lancaster Farms -**HMP Lancaster Farms, Stone Row Head, Lancaster LA1 3QZ**

**Starting salary: £32,851 **(for a 39 hour week **inc 20% unsocial**)**

**City/Town: Lancaster/ Morecombe**

**Region: Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Cheshire**

**Vacancy type: Merit**

**HMP Lancaster Farms Prison Futures**

We are recruiting not just for officers who are needed today, but for prison officers to fill vacancies at HMP Lancaster Farms 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 Lancaster Farms permanently but for the first 23 months of your service you will be working at HMP Elmley, Isle of Sheppey.

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 Lancaster Farms at the end of their 23 month deployment.

You may also be able to transfer to your deployed prison permanently if you wish.

**What’s on offer?**
- 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.
- plus a £1500 Recruitment & Retention Premium while on deployment paid at 12 month and 23 month point.

As a prison officer, you’ll be part of a diverse team, making an impact, doing meaningful work in our prisons.

Working in a prison is fast-paced and varied, and no two days are the same. You’ll work with a range of people and perform a variety of tasks - from keeping the prison safe and secure, to helping vulnerable people through a difficult time in their lives. Once you’ve qualified, you’ll have a range of opportunities to specialise and progress your career and earning potential.

It can be a challenging job, but in return you will get good pay, training, benefits and have the support of a strong team.

Find out more about this varied role and day-to-day life as a prison officer.

**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**

The initial training is 37 hours a week. After training, you can choose to work 37, 39 or 41 hours a week. Your annual salary will reflect your weekly hours. All salary figures quoted include any additional allowances which are payable.

Starting salary at HMP Elmley
- 37 hours a week = £32,902 a year
- 39 hours a week = £34,851 a year
- 41 hours a week = £36,800 a year

You will also get:

- your accommodation costs paid (up to £589 per month)
- the cost of a monthly trip home by public transport.
- plus a £1500 Recruitment & Retention Premium while on deployment paid at 12 month and 23 month point.

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