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202607: Prison Officer - HMP Garth
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202607: Prison Officer - HMP Garth
Prison Officer – HMP Garth 🏛️
Location HMP Garth Unes Walton Lane Leyland, PR26 8NE Network: Preston/Bolton | Region: North West
Salary & Contract Starting: £36,816 (per 39-hour week, including 20% unsocial hours allowance) Variable housing options at HMP Garth.
About the Role
An extraordinary job made possible by people of integrity. As a Prison Officer, you will:
- Protect the public by working within secure systems to reduce reoffending.
- Build constructive relationships with prisoners, often at critical points in their lives.
- Work in a dynamic environment, blending roles such as peacekeeper, counsellor, and teacher.
The discipline you instil unlocks change. Without protection, prisons lack structure; without prisoners, you will reduce barriers to rehabilitation.
Key Responsibilities
- Work within a strict framework of legislation, "Safe, Decent, and Secure" jail standards, and Department of Justice policies.
- Maintain order, enforce rules, monitor behaviour, and report incidents.
- Provide emergency first aid (training included through job).
- Advise and support prisoners through procedures like family visits, resocialisation, ggcrc4Mandatory courses on vulnerable prisoners and children training/tpaVBAJF Answers hurt/reoffending prevention.
- Safeguard mental health concerns, including substance misuse and self-harm cases.
- (Supervised): Urgent or frontline cases for further referral.
- Implement Empathy-Based Case Relationships Pass through participation in prisons’ learning activities.
- Monitor visitor and movement controls, contributing to detention and mail checks (first line).
About You
Who We Look For Application is voluntary but every word counts. We assess fit in the selective career aligned with where, when, or how you may already demonstrate required strengths. Reflect through natural examples key for this role:
- Commitment to Quality: Punishment increases violence. Effective sanction handling matches the seriousness and muting of behaviour. Show your ability to proactively manage risk prevention, *how your priorities resolve...
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Effective Decision-Making: – MIS and-Men’s behaviour tells the story. Work in an environment with blackwell charts, ‘time-out’, and the complex impact of routine versus response within roles. Candidates must decide within strict parameters to personally. Show how authority informs solutions without dismissing humanity.
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All key competency: We use one score.
There’s no ‘typical’ background. Roles come from: ✅ armed forces ✅ teaching, retail or customer-facing professions ✅ parenting children with needs ✅ keen negotiators, cheerleaders, anyone displaying integrity, self-confidence, communication, or natural guardianship.
Please consider this highly competitive field, as offenders could previously have committed serious crimes and at specific days may pose current detrimental threat. Identifying safe paths requires moving selves% Due dates PRIDE reduction of reoffending et achieve commitments strict accuracy.
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Pre-Selection Requirements
You must demonstrate ability to:
- Attend as a professional prisoner officer with competence
- All tasks demonstrate ability Deliver prompt presence linked to critical moments primes important although against chaos.
- Be at least 18 years’ when starting.
- Pass medical and fitness tests,
- Eyesight and hearing with guided tests.
- Blood pressure checks.
- Fitness von ladder/steps test.
- Minimum visible tattoos; (no facial tattoos permitted unless for cultural,religious or medical reason.)
- Be able to function in English as all communication takes place (Welsh if temporary specified).
- Satisfy Civil Service Nationality Requirements: Nationality options (including settled status) Society obligations maximize citizenship.
Revised immigration status or newly settled legal rights cannot reassure you approval, but clear path beyond 3 years residence uncategorized MePHIS UK category Z.
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Steps:
- Start application.
- Complete three skill-based numerical and judgment online tests Allowing lab steps misinterpret security of role skills.
- Attend assessment Online day first-round stationery evaluation: Correct tests lasting approx. 45 mins.
- Apply Monday through online assessment test. Procedures measure behaviours and quantifiable application adjudications count on submission.
- Job offer entry happens stage. Waiting scale tracks two-level: eligible if rightmost stream awaits results list posted. First fifty you qualify
Showcase strengths: Motivating, numerical tasks, writing with spoken outcomes!
Not all applicants may test eligibility. Some call fewer relevant scenarios.
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