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Futures Recruitment Scheme

Work away from home in a long term high security prison 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 in a category A long term high security prison 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.   

Read about the other eligibility criteria you will also need to meet to apply to be a prison officer. 

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. 

Choose a prison and apply now 

  • 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 below. 
  • After this time, you’ll be guaranteed a permanent prison officer role at the prison you applied to. 
Apply toWhere you will work for your first 23 months 
HMP Hull, Hull, Yorkshire HMP Woodhill, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire (CTC check required)  
 
HMP Humber, Brough, East Yorkshire HMP Swaleside, Isle of Sheppey, Kent (no CTC check needed) 
HMP Leeds, Leeds, West Yorkshire HMP Whitemoor, March, Cambridgeshire (CTC check required)  
HMP Liverpool, Liverpool, MerseysideHMP Full Sutton, York (CTC check required) 
HMP Wakefield, Wakefield, West Yorkshire HMP Long Lartin, Evesham, Worcestershire (CTC check required)