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About the Role
Prison officers protect the public and help make an impact on prisoners' lives. If you have the integrity, skills and strength of character we're looking for, this fast-paced role could be the start of a successful career. In this unique career, you’ll have the opportunity to carry out many different roles in any one day, working directly with prisoners in a unique environment, helping to protect the public and make a positive impact.
Responsibilities
- Protect the public and help make an impact on prisoners' lives.
- Build constructive, positive, and professional relationships with prisoners.
- Support colleagues and act as one team to keep the prison safe.
- Work various shifts and some weekends.
- Carry out different roles in any one day, acting as a peacekeeper, counsellor, or teacher.
- Work directly with prisoners in a unique environment.
Requirements
- Be at least 18 years old at the point of employment.
- Meet the Civil Service Nationality requirements.
- Pass a medical and fitness assessment.
- Meet the required eyesight standard in both eyes (with or without corrective lenses).
- Have a suitable standard of hearing (without the use of hearing aids).
- Tattoos must not be deemed as offensive, discriminatory, violent, or intimidating.
- Facial tattoos are generally not acceptable, except for cultural, religious, or medical reasons.
- To work in a high-security prison (category A), you must have been a resident in the UK for the last 3 years.
- A driving licence and own transport is beneficial but not essential unless specified.
- Ensure you have and maintain the legal right to live and work in the Civil Service and in the United Kingdom.
- Be able to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in English or Welsh.
Skills
- Integrity
- Strength of character
- Empathy
- Self-confidence
- Great communication skills
- Resilience
- Teamwork
- Communication and influencing skills
- Commitment to quality
- Effective decision-making
- Care and understanding
Location
- HMP High Down, Highdown Lane, Sutton SM2 5PJ
- Croydon / Sutton
- London
Work Type
- Full Time
- Part Time
- Part Time/Job Share
- Flexible Working
Experience Level
- AO
Salary/Compensations
- £43,290 (for a 39 hour week inc 20% unsocial)
- 37 hours a week = £40,840 a year
- 39 hours a week = £43,290 a year
- 41 hours a week = £45,379 a year
Benefits
- 25 days’ annual holiday (rising to 30 days after 10 years’ service)
- Paid time off for public holidays and 1 extra privilege day
- Civil Service pension with employer contributions of 28.97%
- Cycle to work scheme
- Travel loans
- Other benefits
- Guaranteed interview scheme for eligible former members of the Armed Forces
- Opportunities for those 'at risk of redundancy' through the Redeployment Interview Scheme
About the Company
- The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found.
- The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of Civil Servants.
- We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles.
- As a Disability Confident employer, the MoJ is committed to ensuring that everyone can demonstrate their skills, talent, and abilities.
- The 'Making the Civil Service a Great Place to work for veterans' initiative includes a guaranteed interview scheme to those who meet the minimum criteria to provide eligible former members of the Armed Forces with opportunities to secure rewarding jobs.
- Civil Service departments are expected to explore redeployment opportunities before making an individual redundant.
Equal Opportunity
- As a Disability Confident employer, the MoJ is committed to ensuring that everyone can demonstrate their skills, talent, and abilities.
- The 'Making the Civil Service a Great Place to work for veterans' initiative includes a guaranteed interview scheme to those who meet the minimum criteria to provide eligible former members of the Armed Forces with opportunities to secure rewarding jobs.
- The MoJ are committed, as part of the Redeployment Interview Scheme, to providing opportunities to those who are 'at risk of redundancy'.