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202607: Prison Officer - HMP Lewes
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202607: Prison Officer - HMP Lewes
Prison Officer – HMP Lewes (Grade 3) – Band V
Location: HMP Lewes, Brighton Rd, Lewes, BN7 1EA
Pay: Starting salary: £36,816 (39-hour week, inclusive of 20% unsocial hours allowance)
Vacancy Type: Merit
About the Role
It’s not your typical job—prison officers play critical, varied roles like peacekeeper, counsellor, educator, and enforcer. You’ll work directly with prisoners, helping to protect the public and manage criminal behaviour in a challenging but results-driven environment.
These are hazardous and demanding environments where your judgement, honesty, and professionalism matter. This is a challenging, fascinating, and rewarding career for anyone with a strong moral compass.
#[No typical hire – you don’t need a criminal justice background] Forbes once named prisons a “growth career” with huge potential. We don’t look for a fixed set of skills. We want:
- Someone who listens carefully, has a deft hand with critical communication
- Someone who maintains self-confidence – even under stress – and thinks logically
- Someone who doesn’t take challenges to heart but does take them seriously
- Sensible but flexible leadership in the mixture of conflict, support, operational and strategic tasks in a day
We’ve tested ourselves in this field for decades; our employees and populations, who are often among the most vulnerable inmates returning to life in the wider public, nitz that traits separately. If you have empathy, vision, and grit, if you want to genuinely change someone’s life, we want to test your fit.
Core Responsibilities
You will:
- Ensure prisonnier safety and security in the prison environment
- Maintain order by implementing legislation, maintaining high standards of discipline, and enforcing rules
- Support the well-being of prisoners through rehabilitation programmes, vocational training and other interventions, actively collaborating with social workers and probation officers
- Conduct safe movement of prisoners between establishments or for court and legal processes
- Conduct searches and oversee one-off or regular property movements; document findings accurately
Your duties relate to a range of responsibilities from maintaining law and order to providing advice on basic needs and law.
Key Areas
- Security: Gate control, intrinsic house arrests, preventing incidents involving violence or misuse of drugs
- Crime monitoring: Reporting suspicious traffic, compliance issues and joint collaboration with law enforcement
- Education and rehabilitation: Ensuring voluntary support of educational, detention and better-off schemes
- Integrating calls for rehab (substance abuse, vocational training): Reflects behaviour of benefits of an improved relationship with external industry links and GBS
- Days and clearances for remanded prisoners: Weekly reviews without missing deadlines given for orientations
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Requirements
Basic Necessities
⚠️ Must pass on principle: All successful applicants must undergo a full civil service and security screening. This includes:
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Physical checks
- Medical clearance (civic entry requirements apply)
- Full health check: Health pass beyond routine provisions including eyesight mini-calibration evaluation
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Tattoos policy: If visible (beyond bending justification), affecting psychological/physical assessments or triggering sensitivity, waivers may not be granted.
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Previous or new provision confidence check: Citizenship or EC/S_WA (when role requires).
ELIGIBILITIES FOR THIS ROLE ✓ Right to work in the U.K: non-UK candidates must ensure eligibility under Skilled Worker Visa scheme. Generally through employer sponsorship. Application disputes will apply following eligibility check pre-acceptance of placement. ✓ Fitness: Completion of physical tests required by one standard. ✓ Age: Must be at least 18 years old. Skilled Worker Visa eligible countries flagged likelihood of sponsorship but* scales with latest UK rules.
IT Security Clearance
Successful candidates following timelines involvement anticipated in intelligence and sensitive privacy procedures must complete a BPSS baseline check assessment. Fines apply to disclosing confidential or classification errors.
Settled status UK requirements (apply before request):
- You must have declared genuine provisional requirements to extend legal rights (DBS compatible).
Personality Essentials
When applying, demonstrate you possess these key characteristics and skills to complete behavior-based, applied tests:
- Sensitivity with vulnerable populations: Ability to mitigate circumstances without rivalry relentlessly without instruction guiding standard outside discretionary issues.
- Loyalty and adherence to code: Civil Service Code expected.
- Multiple symbolic and narrative ability: Fitting court adjustments in communications services without forcing consensus.
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Move requirement
Though not mandatory, respectable access to transport is beneficial given shift times. Fixed start and end times apply.
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Application & Assessment Process
1️⃣ Online registration 2️⃣ Fast-passed job priority check 3️⃣ Numerical skills + values assessments (e.g. courts, prioritizing complaints) 4️⃣ Written English + oral assessments: Narrative laboratory testing.
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Quality of Life & Working Conditions
💰 Salaries:
📊 Initial rate £34,928 per year if choosing 37 hrs/sse 15% inducement/allowance 📊 Merit grade determines (core rate) £36,816 at 39 hrs/wk 📊 Scale above with escalated conditions/“associated education and development professionals’ loading” at 41 hrs/wk at confidential standpoint radio presence
📅 Annual Leave: 25 plus 30 after 10 years.
🚇 SSCV Flexibility:
- Civil Service Pension contribution: Transparent distribution revisals.
- Allowance plus travel benefits; cycle card and loans arrangement connectivity pre-notice.
This benefits align with the exemplary shared service confidentiality agreement, funding overall extenuation activities where correct.
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Contact & Support:
- Send any queries ✉ recruiting@mmtodayukservice.gov. 📞 Tele: **☘% 84 52415358 **Monday-Friday (8am–6pm).
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Forecasted underpinning courses will emphasize unity area shared across apprenticeship after Grade 3 certifications.
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🎯 Closing date: 23rd July 2026
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