84190 - National Senior Probation Officer Returners Campaign

Salary   £40,604 - £45,500 Number of jobs available   100 Detail of reserve list   12 Months Region   National City/Town   National Building/Site   NATIONAL Grade   Other Organisation Grade for HMPPS   NPS Pay Band 5 National Post Type   Fixed Term , Permanent Duration of appointment   Temporary Contracts available: Up to 3 months, 6 months and 9 months. Working Pattern   Full Time, Part Time, Part Time/Job Share, Flexible Working Role Type   Probation Officer, Senior Leadership Will the successful applicant have line manager responsibilities?   Yes Job description  

National Senior Probation Officer Returner Scheme

This is a rolling campaign; applicants cannot reapply within a six-month period.

This scheme is open to former, qualified senior probation officers who have left the Civil Service within the last five years.

If you are a former qualified senior probation officer who has left the Civil Service less than 5 years ago, and have completed your probationary period and training, we would like you to consider returning to the Probation Service and joining your former colleagues, to keep the public safe and rehabilitate people on probation. 

We can offer you a fast-track return to the service with no requirement to undertake a lengthy application form, interview and repeat any entry level training or assessment process. Should you meet the eligibility criteria, and your application is accepted by the Probation Service.

When considering applications, we take into account a range of relevant factors such as business need/location availability and any concerns regarding an individuals' prior performance, conduct or attendance.

We will contact you to discuss your potential work base location, subject to passing pre-employment checks.

Please note: Former civil servants do not have the right to return. It is at the discretion of the Probation Service whether to reinstate former civil servants. This Returners Scheme utilises Exception 5 of the Recruitment Principles, which provides a mechanism for former civil servants to return, without necessarily going through fair and open competition again.

 Further information can be found here: Home - Civil Service Commission (independent.gov.uk)

If you have left the service more than 5 years ago, please visit Current vacancies – Prison and Probation Jobs for all our current vacancies.

If you are not yet ready to re-join at this time, you can still be part of our Probation Alumni Network to be kept up date on the latest developments for probation returners. Click here to register to the Probation Alumni Network

Eligibility:

Civil Service Exception 5 terms are as follows:

• Former civil servants who were previously appointed on merit on the basis of fair and open competition may be re-appointed (to a permanent or fixed-term appointment) within a maximum of five years of leaving the Civil Service.
• Civil Servants can return to a role that is the same grade as when they left, or lower. Civil servants cannot return on promotion under Exception 5.
• Civil Servants can return within 5 years of leaving their last post.
• There is no right of return for any individual, this is a matter of business need in the relevant civil service organisation.
• Former civil servants may not be brought back at a higher grade than the substantive grade they were on when they left.

This offer is open to all former qualified senior probation officers subject to meeting the eligibility criteria and who have left the Ci