The Role

If you think prison is a place to keep offenders under lock and key and away from public, you're only partly right. It's not enough for Prison Officers to bolt doors, supervise offenders, then release them, unaltered, once their sentence is served. If we took that approach, we'd be failing society and ourselves.

A significant part of your job will be to help ensure offenders leave prison better equipped to make a valuable contribution to society. It's also about listening - it's quite possible that, as a Prison Officer, you might be the first person an offender has ever opened up to. Yes, it's also about rules, regulations and security. But it's not about aggression, bullying and showing who's boss. In each situation, a fine balance needs to be struck, as this section of the site explains.

Locations

We are currently recruiting across the majority of the country but the bulk of our current vacancies are in London, the South East (Kent and Surrey) and in some parts of the North West.

You can find more about the prisons that have vacancies by looking at the prison officer jobs map on this site.