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It’s alright

Prison Officer (Current Employee) - Peterborough, Cambridgeshire - 23 September 2023

More con’s than pro’s. It can be a rewarding job but it depends on management. Very short staffed and they don’t really care about your mental health and well-being, they care more about the money they can get from having prisoners in rather than keeping it a safe place to work.

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Pros

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Cons

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Probation Officer (Current Employee) - Peterborough, Cambridgeshire - 14 April 2023

Colleagues are lovely but you have to find your own way without much support from senior officers. Shadowing or starting out is not arranged for you and whilst training you're pretty much left to your own devices with no direction. Training is not thorough enough and more of a tick box theory exercise method rather than practical learning. No sense of belonging but definitely a thick skin needed due to a minor amount of staff who judge and like to add on pressure with a 'sink or swim' mentality - but overall a really lovely group of people and the job is rewarding a lot of the time. If I had let some of my colleagues comments get to me whilst new I'd have walked away before my training was even finished.

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