HMPPS is a part of the UK’s Ministry of Justice. Comprising HM Prison Service and HM Probation service, we prevent victims by changing lives. Our focus is on reducing reoffending by rehabilitating offenders through education and employment.
HMPPS can provide you with opportunities that:
Allow you to use your skills, expertise and experience to continue to protect the public
Do not need specific qualifications (for many of our roles).
Provide job stability and a good work-life balance
Access to great Civil Service benefits
Allow a range of working patterns including shift work and working from home in some roles
Offer paid for training and learning and development opportunities
Deliver career progression opportunities
Prison roles
There are a greater variety of roles available inside a prison than you might immediately think, all of which contribute to the safe and successful management of the prison.
Find out more about the roles you can apply for under the Advance into Justice scheme and see which role is the right fit for you:
Prison officer
As a key worker, you'll work with a range of people and perform a variety of tasks - from keeping the prison safe and secure, to helping vulnerable people through a difficult time in their lives.
You’ll be trained for all kinds of situations, from keeping the prison safe to helping offenders to learn new skills. You’ll need to be ready for challenging behaviour, and willing to take the rough with the smooth. But with
training and a supportive team by your side, you’ll feel confident and assertive in your role and prepared to make a difference.
As an Operational Support Grade (OSG), you will play a key role always keeping the prison safe and secure. Working shifts, you’ll need to be a good team player, a problem solver and remain calm under pressure. OSGs perform
a number of important tasks across the prison to support the day to day regime of the prison.
Working in a prison catering role gives you a chance to make an impact far beyond the kitchen by managing offenders and helping them learn new skills which can increase their chances of future employment.
If you’ve got a textiles, woodwork or plastic fabrication qualification, you can help prisoners learn a new trade in our onsite workshops. This can help them increase their chances of finding a job when they return to their
communities. If you don’t have one of the trade specific qualifications, but remain interested in working as an instructor, please use the links below for further information on the roles available.
Probation staff help protect communities by supporting people on probation to get back on track after leaving prison or receiving a community sentence and help them make better life choices. Find out more about the roles you can apply
for under within Probation the Advance into Justice scheme and see which is for you:
Probation services officer
As a probation services officer (PSO), you will do a full range of work with offenders before and after sentence, and in the community.
Case Administrators play a key role, using their great organisational and communication skills, to support their probation colleagues and help people on probation turn their lives around.
Working in a Community Payback (CP) role, you’ll play a key part in supporting people on probation make improvements to local communities while they make positive changes to get their lives back on track.
