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Operational Support Grade - HMP Usk and HMP Prescoed (Prison Support Role)
| Posting date: | 24 January 2025 |
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| Salary: | £27,840 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 06 February 2025 |
| Location: | Usk, Monmouthshire |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | HM Prison and Probation Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
An extraordinary job. Done by someone like you.
As part of our prison support team, your work will be varied and help to keep the prison moving.
This is an active role where you will be doing a range of physical tasks. These can include lifting and carrying, plus long periods of standing and walking. There will also be periods of lone working whilst undertaking tasks on both day and night shifts.
You will not always be in contact with prisoners, it depends on the prison you work in. You will have full training and a supportive team by your side.
Life as an OSG
Your job can include:
Gate duties
ensuring the secure entry and exit of staff, visitors, vehicles.
carrying out searches of staff, prisoners, visitors and vehicles
walking around the prison site to escort vehicles and contractors
issuing and collecting staff keys and radios
walking around the prison site patrolling and searching perimeter fence areas
Control room
operating the prison radio system
monitoring CCTV, ensuring all suspicious activities are reported.
Visits
welcoming visitors on their arrival
escorting them if needed
Correspondence
monitoring and logging mail coming into the prison
reporting any contraband items, preserving evidence where needed
Night duties
ensuring cell doors are locked and all prisoners are safely accounted for.
Reception
photographing prisoners
processing prisoners’ property and parcels coming into the prison.
Prisoner supervision
sometimes supervising prisoners
exchanging clothing and property
helping prison officers escort prisoners around the prison
Food delivery
walking around the prison delivering and collecting food trollies, or sometimes using an electric tug vehicle
Driving duties
transporting prisoners and their escorts to their destination
collecting mail from the local sorting office, which may involve lifting heavy sacks.
Phone calls
monitoring the prison’s Personal Identification Number (PIN) phone system
maintaining the log of PIN phone requests from prisoners
completing relevant records
Procedures and protocol
understanding and conforming to national and local policies, responding appropriately to incidents and emergencies
You do not need any qualifications to do this job. Helping to keep a prison running smoothly and safely requires good judgement, common sense, responsibility and, above all teamwork.
As part of our prison support team, your work will be varied and help to keep the prison moving.
This is an active role where you will be doing a range of physical tasks. These can include lifting and carrying, plus long periods of standing and walking. There will also be periods of lone working whilst undertaking tasks on both day and night shifts.
You will not always be in contact with prisoners, it depends on the prison you work in. You will have full training and a supportive team by your side.
Life as an OSG
Your job can include:
Gate duties
ensuring the secure entry and exit of staff, visitors, vehicles.
carrying out searches of staff, prisoners, visitors and vehicles
walking around the prison site to escort vehicles and contractors
issuing and collecting staff keys and radios
walking around the prison site patrolling and searching perimeter fence areas
Control room
operating the prison radio system
monitoring CCTV, ensuring all suspicious activities are reported.
Visits
welcoming visitors on their arrival
escorting them if needed
Correspondence
monitoring and logging mail coming into the prison
reporting any contraband items, preserving evidence where needed
Night duties
ensuring cell doors are locked and all prisoners are safely accounted for.
Reception
photographing prisoners
processing prisoners’ property and parcels coming into the prison.
Prisoner supervision
sometimes supervising prisoners
exchanging clothing and property
helping prison officers escort prisoners around the prison
Food delivery
walking around the prison delivering and collecting food trollies, or sometimes using an electric tug vehicle
Driving duties
transporting prisoners and their escorts to their destination
collecting mail from the local sorting office, which may involve lifting heavy sacks.
Phone calls
monitoring the prison’s Personal Identification Number (PIN) phone system
maintaining the log of PIN phone requests from prisoners
completing relevant records
Procedures and protocol
understanding and conforming to national and local policies, responding appropriately to incidents and emergencies
You do not need any qualifications to do this job. Helping to keep a prison running smoothly and safely requires good judgement, common sense, responsibility and, above all teamwork.
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