16919 - First Time Prison Officer Recruitment Scheme - Long-Term High Security Estate

Long Term High Security Estate - First Time Prison Officer Campaign

This role is not eligible for new Skilled Worker visas in accordance with the current immigration rules., In this unique career, you'll have the opportunity to carry out many different roles in any one day. One minute you're a peacekeeper, the next you're a counsellor or a teacher. You'll work directly with prisoners in a unique environment, helping to protect the public and make a positive impact.

During the recruitment process you will be assessed on the behaviours, strengths and abilities you need to become an effective prison officer. These include:

communicating and influencing

meet the required eyesight standard in both eyes

for safety reasons, meet a suitable standard of hearing.

Applying for your first prison officer role and happy to relocate? Get your career off to a great start, gaining valuable experience working at one of our Long-Term High Security Prisons.

Move away to join a prison that's 75 minutes or more from where you currently live and not only will you benefit from a greater variety of experience than you would working at a smaller prison, but you will also get higher take-home pay, your accommodation costs paid for up to 23 months, and a paid monthly trip from your deployed prison to the prison closest to your home.

Vacancies are currently available at HMP's Full Sutton, Long Lartin, Swaleside, Whitemoor and Woodhill.

Choose 3 or more prisons from the above list that you'd like to work at and, wherever possible, we will aim to find you a role at one of these. You will be allocated to a prison that has the most need for prison officers at the time.

We will pay your accommodation costs (up to £750 per month) for up to 23 months

You will be able to reclaim the cost of a monthly trip from your deployed prison to the prison closest to your home.

You will also be paid a recruitment and retention bonus of £1500 after the first 12 month and 23-month period

An extraordinary job, You will then be invited to complete the online test, to see if you have the basic judgement and numerical skills expected of a prison officer.

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

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.

Please refer to main advert for pay scales for individual prisons.

Benefits

Read more about prison officer benefits

Job offers: Merit vacancy

This is a merit job vacancy. If you are successful at the online assessment centre, you will be added to a merit list based on your score.

When all applicants have completed the assessment centre, the prison will make job offers to individuals with the highest scores first when positions become available.