Postal Porter Rugby, Warwickshire £25,292.27

Role Responsibility:

Postal Porter

G4S Care and Rehabilitation Services

HMP Rye Hill, Rugby, CV23 8SZ

Salary £25,292.27 per annum

Permanent, Full Time, 40 hours per week

Benefits:  Company Pension, free on-site parking, on-site canteen, ongoing training and development and access to High Street Shop discounts.

Within Care and Rehabilitation Services, the philosophy of our prisons is to rehabilitate offenders and equip them to re-integrate into mainstream society on release. We seek to normalise prison conditions as far as possible to reflect life in the outside community. Our aim is to create an environment in which staff and prisoners feel safe and causes of prison stress are minimised. Central to our philosophy is the relationship between staff and prisoners. Our training and operational practices emphasise the need to treat prisoners with dignity and respect and G4S staff build positive and supportive relationships with the prisoners in their care. 

HMP Rye Hill is a category 'B' training prison situated in the village of Willoughby, near Rugby in Warwickshire, holding approximately 664 sentenced male adults.

We now have a new opportunity for a Postal Porter to join our team at HMP Rye Hill.

The successful candidate will provide a full postal service for the distribution of all the internal and external mail to ensure both prisoners and Company correspondence is effectively processed

Key Responsibilities:

• Receive and sort all mail within the prison ensuring correct delivery to appropriate areas.
• X-ray and search all mail for prohibited items to prevent their entry into the prison.
• Deliver all post to the relevant departments to assist with the smooth operation of the prison to meet relevant standards.
• Collect and deliver all newspapers and magazines to the units on a daily basis to ensure an efficient service to prisoners.
• Sort and frank external post ensuring timely collection
• Connect all callers to their contact or the contact most relevant to the general nature of their enquiry in a timely professional manner.
• Ensure the maintenance of security within the prison environment by compliance with security instructions.

The Ideal Candidate:

The ideal candidate will be an engaging, hardworking individual with good IT skills and attention to detail

If you join us, you can be sure that you’ll find a secure, friendly and professional working environment and be given all the support, training and encouragement you need to build and develop a successful career with us.

For more information about HMP Rye Hill please visit https://hmpryehill.co.uk/

Equality and Diversity is an important part of G4S Care and Rehabilitation Services. We actively encourage applications from all backgrounds and are a fully inclusive employer who aims to support all employees to be their true selves. We are happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments for either the role or during the recruitment process

G4S Care and Rehabilitation Services is committed to safeguarding and promoting the wellbeing of children and adults at risk and each employee is expected to support these goals.

Please note that these vacancies are subject to a 10 year checkable history and the strict vetting standards set by G4S and the Secretary of State for the Home Office and are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act. 

You must be eligible to work in the UK and you will need to provide full details of your employment and education history for the last 10 years as part of the security screening process for this role.