Prison Officers.Org.UK

Seems strange. Over a year of inactivity, you couldn’t even log in. Now, suddenly there’s users on there but nothing about the forum being taken over or any explanation about what happened .

Chez32 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 08, 2021 10:07 am Therealme, just had update they waiting for my last work reference, but that was sat back last Sunday! So hoping they pick it up SSCL said this morning should be near the end now! X

Great news, Chez . Fingers crossed it all comes together soon for you

Back to square one for me, LL. VARC in a couple weeks for a different jail

My take on this is that when people are in the recruitment process, they tend to have a lot of unanswered questions. As the forum is a hive of past and present knowledge, it gives answers to most of those questions and there are people who can relate as they’re in the same boat. Now, when someone is...

Yep, in abundance mate. I’ve been playing this game for 4 years. Applied 2017–joined 2018-left 2018 and been trying to get in back since haha

Thanks guys, yeah I received the report more or less instantly just couldn’t remember how long it took to hear from hmpps

Cheers Bearguy. Just so I have an idea of how long the wait may take rather than checking every 10 minutes.

Quick question- how soon after completing Arctic Shores did you find out whether you’d made it to the next stage?

I watched something recently where he was answering questions from that Cody Lachey (ex prisoner). He always seems to offer a fair and honest assessment of life behind the walls. I’ll give the podcast whirl.

Personally, I thought the book was a good read. One sided, maybe, but he’s only sharing his story and his own experiences as an officer. His experiences and feelings towards the service will differ from others, but I’d happily read anyone’s story to gain their insight.

That’s the spirit, mate. Hope you get something sorted sharpish.

I believe the £19531 is the base pay, the £22293 is inclusive of unsociable hours. The £22293 is based on a 37 hour week, which is what you are paid for during poelt. Once you go live you’ll have the option of working 37/39/41 hours and your salary will change should you choose to increase your hours.

Wishing everyone on the site all the very best for the year ahead. Hope you all get to where you want to be and fingers crossed we’ll see the back of the virus and these wretched lockdowns.

Take care
TRM

Yeah, I gathered that when you mentioned your dads old jail is one of only a few with a functional watering hole (Tythe Barn) in a post a while back. Believe it’s the only one in the country these days, that’s what we were told on poelt anyway.