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Work Environment:

Being a probation officer, you'd evaluate the risk and danger an offender might cause to the community, and how the risk can be constrained. It'd be your objective to guard people and decrease crime by-

  • making sure that offenders execute their punishment
  • letting them to know the consequence of their offenses on people and victims
  • decreasing risk of re-offending
  • assisting offenders get back in the community

You'd work with offenders throughout, before and after they're sentenced. Generally, you'd work within a field group, drawing up court-reports and overseeing offenders into the community. You can work within different settings like probations hostels and prisons.

Your tasks might comprise:

  • working with victims of crime
  • imposing Community-Orders, ensuring that offenders are present at usual supervision appointments and participate in community work or group programs
  • working with prisoners who are about to be released
  • executing special group programs to alter behavior and attitudes of offenders
  • interrogating offenders and related people prior to sentencing
  • giving risk assessments and reports to assist prisons and parole review panels to make a decision on early release
  • drawing up PSR (pre-sentence reports), to recommend judges and magistrates on the appropriate sentence
You'd work intimately with different agencies like Youth Offending Teams, the police, substance misuse services, and community services.

Qualification, Education and Experience:

In previous years, probation-services within Wales and England hired few trainee probation officers every year, who accomplished the Diploma into Probation-Studies. Though, now training and recruitment process of probation officers has changed.

To submit an application for probation officer position, you'll be required to get Honors Degree into Community-Justice with the Fifth Level Diploma into Probation Practice, while you're working as a PSO (Probation Services Officer).

Thus, your initial step will be to enroll with a regional probation trust as an untrained PSO. You must check the regional press and websites of trusts regularly, as trusts would only hire PSOs when there are openings.

While submitting an application for PSO works, you'll generally require working experience with vulnerable groups or offenders. And you can achieve this by volunteering or salaried work within services like:

  • youth offending groups
  • victim support-services
  • community-payback groups
  • prison-visiting services
  • regional probation hostels
For details regarding appropriate volunteering chances, contact your regional probation trust.

Being a probation services officer, you should accomplish the Third Level Diploma into Probation-Practice within first twelve months.

Being an entitled PSO, you could apply to study for additional Fifth Level qualifications within the PQF (Probation Qualifications-Framework), given as below:

  • Degree into Community Justice
  • Fifth Level Diploma into Probation Practice
  • Honors Degree into Community Justice
You'd be required to get through with selection exams within your district to gain entry to each training phase.

Then again, if you've a degree into police studies, criminology, criminal justice, or community justice, you can apply for Fifth Level Diploma into Probation Practice and Graduate Diploma into Community Justice. This is an abbreviated mode which permits PSOs having an associated degree to get qualified for probation officer positions within fifteen months.

When you've gained Graduate Diploma or Honors Degree into Community Justice with Fifth Level Diploma, you'll get qualified for probation officer works.

Training Details:

Existing and new probation officers would pursue new PQF (Probation Qualifications Framework) to advance in their profession.

Being an entitled probation officer, you're supported to carry on your personal and professional development all through your vocation. By experience and qualifications, you can advance to managerial roles, or do specialization in fields like prison or hostel work.

Skills and knowledge:

  • commitment and motivation
  • excellent verbal communication abilities
  • problem resolving skills
  • the capability to work by yourself and as member of group
  • a non judgmental, impartial and fair manner
  • excellent organizational abilities, with capability to schedule workload
  • the capability to handle stressful circumstances
  • a responsible and mature approach
  • the capability to coordinate with different people
  • report writing abilities
  • the capability to achieve trust and confidence of people

Salary and Other Benefits:

  • PSOs (Probation Services Officers) can receive around £20,000 to £27,000 annually.
  • And entitled probation officers can get about £28,000 to £36,000 annually.

Working Conditions:

You'd work weekly for about 38 hours, on weekdays. Sometimes, you might be required to work in weekends and evenings, generally with break to make-up for working at unsocial hours. You might have freedom to arrange your own patterns of working.

You'd be working within an office, although also employ most of working time voyaging in your region to attend court, community programs, prisons and group sessions.

Different Opportunities:

You can discover work chances with the NPS (National Probation Service) within Wales or England.

Usually, openings for trainee probation officer have been publicized by the regional press.For recent recruitment details, check with your regional probation services or the NPS.

Employment openings for other probation posts might be publicized by the regional press, the Probation Bulletin, and websites of regional probation service.

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