The OSG role will give you significant knowledge and experience of how a prison operates. It can provide a gateway to a wide range of other prison jobs.
Many OSGs choose to progress to prison officer or youth justice worker roles.
Or you could choose to move into one of the following:
- instructor roles
- teaching prisoners new skills to help them find work after they return to their communities
- waste management
- working with prisoners to reduce, reuse and recycle in the prison – this may include training prisoners in core skills such as counting and recycling
- catering
- training prisoners in a range of catering skills – this will involve supervising prisoners working in the busy prison kitchens