Prison Custody Officer - Liverpool, United Kingdom - G4S

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Liverpool, United Kingdom

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Description

Location:
Liverpool

Salary:
£26,144.55

Posted: 21 Feb 2023

Closes: 18 Apr 2023

Job Type:
Full Time and Permanent

Business Unit:
UK Central Government Services

Region / Division:
UK & Ireland

Reference: 13329

Role Responsibility:

PRISON CUSTODY OFFICER

HMP ALTCOURSE, FAZAKERLEY, LIVERPOOL, L9 7LH

£26,144.55 per annum, rising to £27,593.66 after 2 years' service

Permanent, Full Time - 39 hours per week, with various shifts

Essential skills:
communication, interpersonal skills, resilience and team work skills

Benefits:

Company Pension, free on-site parking, staff canteen, life insurance, 'Perks' at Work discounts, free uniform, free onsite gym and local Gym discounts and extensive training and development.

Looking for a secure and permanent career with a future?

Be that person who makes a difference every day, the chance to do an extraordinary job

Are you a good communicator? Do you have resilience? A good listener?
The philosophy of our prisons is to rehabilitate prisoners and equip them to re-integrate into mainstream society on release. We seek to normalise prison conditions as far as possible to reflect life in the outside community. Our aim is to create an environment in which staff and prisoners feel safe.

The prisoners in your care will have a variety of different needs and it will be your role to ensure those individuals are treated with dignity and respect and helped to find a new way of life whilst maintaining a safe, secure, stable and decent environment.

You will be pivotal in motivating prisoners to change their attitudes and make better life choices going forward.

You will act as a role model to prisoners and provide them with opportunities to rehabilitate and make positive changes to their lives.

You will provide prisoners with a structured regime, including access to work, education, exercise and offending behaviour courses.

You will be expected to supervise and account for prisoners, ensuring the security of the establishment is maintained at all times.

During your career, there will be opportunities to progress to management and undertake additional training to either undertake additional duties or specialise in areas such as:

Incident negotiator
Prison Offender Managers
Enhanced Gate Security
Substance Misuse
Induction
Safer Custody

Staff also have the opportunity to become instructors, these staff deliver staff training in areas such as:

Control & Restraint
First Aid
Fire Safety
Mental Health Awareness

Your initial training lasts for 9 weeks, where you will receive comprehensive training, which includes Control & Restraint, First Aid, Interpersonal skills and Health & Safety, Security, Prison knowledge

G4S CaRS is committed to safeguarding and promoting the wellbeing of children and adults at risk and each employee is expected to support these goals.

Our training and operational practices emphasise the need to treat prisoners with dignity and respect and G4S staff build positive and supportive relationships with the prisoners in their care.

Our team has a real opportunity to make a difference and we encourage people to improve the way we operate and develop new ways of working to improve safety and better support prisoners.

If you join us, you'll find a secure, friendly and professional working environment and be given all the support, training and encouragement you need to build and develop a successful career with us.

You must be eligible to work in the UK and must have been resident in the UK for a minimum period of 3 years.

You will also need to provide full details of your employment and education history for the last 5 years as part of the security screening process for this role.