Protect the Public and Make a Positive Impact
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A fast-paced role in which you'll work with offenders, using your integrity, skills, and strength of character to help them get their lives back on track.
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You'll work directly with prisoners in a unique environment, helping to protect the public and make a positive impact.
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This extraordinary job requires empathy, self-confidence, and great communication skills. You'll need to build constructive, positive, and professional relationships with offenders who may be at the lowest point in their lives.
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You'll also need to be fully committed to supporting your colleagues and understand the importance of acting as one team to keep the prison, offenders, and everyone who works here safe.
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You'll have the opportunity to carry out many different roles in any one day, including peacekeeping, counselling, and teaching.
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As a prison officer, you'll be given great training and opportunities for progression and development, including the chance to specialise in different areas.
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You'll receive a good salary and benefits, such as 25 days' holiday allowance each year, childcare vouchers, season ticket loans, retail discounts, Employee Assistance Programme, and Cycle to Work scheme.
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The sense of achievement you'll feel when you've helped an offender to get their life back on track is just one of the rewards of this challenging yet rewarding role.