Work away from home for your first 23 months and gain valuable experience that will help shape your future prison officer career
About the Futures Recruitment Scheme
- Apply to the prison you want to work at in the longer term – choose from the list below.
- To apply to be a prison officer under this scheme, you will need to work away from home for your first 23 months.
- After 23 months, you’ll be guaranteed a permanent prison officer role at the prison you applied to.
Your salary will depend on which prison you work at. Read more about prison officer salaries here.
Check if you’re eligible to apply
Most of the prisons that you will work in for your first 23 months on this scheme are high security ones. To work in them you must:
- have a Counter Terrorism Check (CTC) security check as part of your application
- have been resident in the UK for the last 3 years to apply for a CTC check
See the list below for details of which prisons you will need a CTC check for.
Benefits of the Futures Scheme
As well as the great benefits you get from being a part of HMPPS, you’ll get:
- an additional £1,500 each year on top of your salary, for 23 months
- an opportunity to earn more through our ‘Payment Plus’ scheme (an additional payment for any hours you volunteer to work over your contractual hours)
- up to £750 per month towards your accommodation costs, for up to 23 months
- the cost of a monthly trip home repaid, based on the journey from the prison you are working at to the prison you will move to after 23 months
Once you have worked at your first prison for 23 months, you will no longer get the additional benefits you get under this scheme.
How to apply
- From the list below, choose the prison you’d like to apply to and work at permanently.
- If your application is successful, for your first 23 months you’ll work at the prison shown alongside it in the table.
- After this time, you’ll be guaranteed a permanent prison officer role at the prison you applied to.
| Apply to | Where you will work for your first 23 months |
| HMP Hull | HMP Woodhill, a category A prison Milton Keynes (CTC check required) |
| HMP Humber | HMP Swaleside, a high security prison on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent (no CTC check required) |
| HMP Leeds | HMP Whitemoor, a long-term high security prison in Cambridgeshire (CTC check required) |
| HMP Lincoln | HMP Highpoint, a category C training and resettlement prison in New Market, Suffolk (no CTC check required) |
| HMP Liverpool | HMP Full Sutton, a category A long-term high security prison in East Yorkshire (CTC check required) |
| HMP Wakefield | HMP Long Lartin, a category A long-term high security prison in Worcestershire (CTC check required) |