HMP Nottingham Future Campaign
Applying for your first prison officer role and happy to relocate? Get your career off to a great start, gaining valuable experience working at HMP Deerbolt for 23 months before returning to HMP Nottingham permanently.
We are recruiting not just for officers who are needed today, but for prison officers to fill vacancies at HMP Nottingham 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 Nottingham permanently but for the first 23 months of your service you will be working at HMP Deerbolt.
It’s a great opportunity. You will benefit from a greater variety of experience, you will also get help towards 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 Nottingham at the end of their 23 month deployment.
What’s on offer?
- Accommodation costs (up to £750 per month) paid for up to 23 months
- Monthly trip between HMP Deerbolt and HMP Nottingham reimbursed
- Recruitment and retention bonus of £1,500 after 12 months and 23 months
An extraordinary job
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.
Assessment Criteria
- Communicating and influencing
- Managing a quality service
- Making effective decisions
- Caring
Requirements
- Be at least 18 years old at the commencement of employment
- Meet the Civil Service nationality requirements
- Pass a medical and fitness assessment
- Meet the required eyesight standard in both eyes
- For safety reasons, meet a suitable standard of hearing
- Tattoos permitted if not offensive, discriminatory, violent or intimidating. Facial tattoos generally not acceptable, except for cultural, religious or medical reasons
How to apply
The online application begins with important details such as your National Insurance number and right to work in the UK. You will then be invited to complete Stage 1 of the online tests, to see if you have the basic judgement and numerical skills expected of a prison officer. If you are successful, we will invite you to the Stage 2 online test (values‑based assessment). If you pass the online tests, we will invite you to an online assessment centre (OAC).
Pay
Starting salary: £33,746 – HMP Deerbolt. If you transfer to another prison after your first 23 months, your pay will change to match the salary paid at that prison. 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.
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. You can stay on the merit list for 12 months. After this, you’ll need to apply again.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission’s recruitment principles. If you feel the recruitment process has breached the recruitment principles you can raise a formal complaint by contacting Shared Services Connected Ltd: call 0845 241 5358 (Monday to Friday 8 am‑6 pm) or email Moj‑recruitment‑vetting‑enquiries@gov.sscl.com.
We encourage applications from all backgrounds
We encourage applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that represents the wider society that we serve. We champion diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued and a sense of belonging.
Disability support
As a Disability Confident employer, we are committed to providing everyone with the opportunity to demonstrate their skills, talent and abilities, by making adjustments throughout the recruitment process and in the workplace. You can request reasonable adjustments within the application form.
If you need assistance, please call 0345 241 5358 (Monday to Friday 8 am‑6 pm) or email MoJ‑recruitment‑vetting‑enquiries@gov.sscl.com.
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