A RECRUITMENT drive is underway in Southampton for roles in the prison and probation service.

City residents are being urged to consider new jobs in the HM Prison and Probation Service. 

Open to a "wide range of applicants", the drive has already seen people move from the retail and hospitality sectors. 

The service is looking to fill a number of roles including probation service officers, case administrators and trainee probation officers. 

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Brittany Moore, aged 24, from Southampton, joined after studying an English degree at university.

She said: "The highlight of the job for me is working with people on probation and watching them progress.

"I have seen people at the lowest time in their life, but following the support of the Probation Service, are now striving and back on their feet."

Currently, there are 958 working in the service and from October 2021 to September 2022 the region saw 196 new workers join up.

 Applications to become a case administrator or probation services officer are open now: www.jobs.justice.gov.uk/agency/probation-service/

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