Northern Ireland prison service (now recruiting))

Volcom900

does anyone know how many intakes there are

weepete

Volcom900 wrote: »

does anyone know how many intakes there are

So far 3 in september an 2 in november

weepete

They have moved the october intakes till november, got a call yesterday switchin my dates, no apparent explaination but may have to do with peoples ctcs still outstanding and therefore not enough vetted people to be placed in october.

Volcom900

thats great weepete, thank you

missyk1

weepete wrote: »

They have moved the october intakes till november, got a call yesterday switchin my dates, no apparent explaination but may have to do with peoples ctcs still outstanding and therefore not enough vetted people to be placed in october.

Really ??

missyk1

missyk1 wrote: »

weepete wrote: »

They have moved the october intakes till november, got a call yesterday switchin my dates, no apparent explaination but may have to do with peoples ctcs still outstanding and therefore not enough vetted people to be placed in october.

Really ??

What dates ?

weepete

missyk1 wrote: »

missyk1 wrote: »

weepete wrote: »

They have moved the october intakes till november, got a call yesterday switchin my dates, no apparent explaination but may have to do with peoples ctcs still outstanding and therefore not enough vetted people to be placed in october.

Really ??

What dates ?

Aye got a call yesterday changin my october date to either the 19th or 26th of november but there was originally 3 dates planned in october! So dont know whats happening with that mayb there will be more allocated later and hopefully into december too!!!!

missyk1

weepete wrote: »

missyk1 wrote: »

missyk1 wrote: »

weepete wrote: »

They have moved the october intakes till november, got a call yesterday switchin my dates, no apparent explaination but may have to do with peoples ctcs still outstanding and therefore not enough vetted people to be placed in october.

Really ??

What dates ?

Aye got a call yesterday changin my october date to either the 19th or 26th of november but there was originally 3 dates planned in october! So dont know whats happening with that mayb there will be more allocated later and hopefully into december too!!!!

That might've suited
Me better instead of having to loose my flights I'd already booked.

CityGirl88

Recruitment told me that they had 2 intakes in November and one in december aswell all lined up, i think they mentioned that it was round the start of December

weepete

Well missy ring them and see if you change, if you havent cancelled your flights already.

weepete

CityGirl88 wrote: »

Recruitment told me that they had 2 intakes in November and one in december aswell all lined up, i think they mentioned that it was round the start of December

Sounds about right for movin the 3 october intakes to november and december

grad10

missyk1 wrote: »

That might've suited
Me better instead of having to loose my flights I'd already booked.

Are you not in the first intake missy?

That means the first couple of intakes will be finished initial training when the November groups start.. maybe that's why they had to change dates simply because there isn't enough either room or resources for so many intakes in Millisle at once. However you think they would have foreseen that one!!

missyk1

grad10 wrote: »

missyk1 wrote: »

That might've suited
Me better instead of having to loose my flights I'd already booked.

Are you not in the first intake missy?

That means the first couple of intakes will be finished initial training when the November groups start.. maybe that's why they had to change dates simply because there isn't enough either room or resources for so many intakes in Millisle at once. However you think they would have foreseen that one!!

Yes I'm in the first ! :-)

euros1

Got the letter about the open night.is it essential that we go.I can't get off work for it.its my last day

Delancey

euros1 wrote: »

Got the letter about the open night.is it essential that we go.I can't get off work for it.its my last day

If you go what the worst your boss can do ? Fire you on your last day ?

missyk1

I'm sure we could all fill you in euros1 and let you know what happened in the open night.

missyk1

Would anyone be interested house sharing somewhere near to the venue as opposed to driving everyday? I drove down today and clocked 60 miles return x 5 days x 8 weeks ?

swl33t

missyk1 wrote: »

Would anyone be interested house sharing somewhere near to the venue as opposed to driving everyday? I drove down today and clocked 60 miles return x 5 days x 8 weeks ?

I would be doing 140 return so would have been up for that but yet to get a medical lol

Shawsy

swl33t wrote: »

I would be doing 140 return so would have been up for that but yet to get a medical lol

Yep me too, i'm going to have to travel quite a way - but still waiting on that elusive medical
I just heard from someone already in the service that they are not planning on even taking on enough new recruits to cover all the vacancies.

They apparently gave the night custody officers the option to move to day time and 80 showed interest but only 18 actually took it.
I'm being told that they are going to take up to around 200 now and allow the new ones to do overtime to fill the vacancies and then re-recruit next year again!?

I really don't know how true this is, i'm being told it is definitely correct but who knows!?

euros1

Delancey wrote: »

euros1 wrote: »

Got the letter about the open night.is it essential that we go.I can't get off work for it.its my last day

If you go what the worst your boss can do ? Fire you on your last day ?

Lol that's true.

euros1

missyk1 wrote: »

I'm sure we could all fill you in euros1 and let you know what happened in the open night.

That would be great.Cheers

euros1

Shawsy wrote: »

swl33t wrote: »

I would be doing 140 return so would have been up for that but yet to get a medical lol

Yep me too, i'm going to have to travel quite a way - but still waiting on that elusive medical
I just heard from someone already in the service that they are not planning on even taking on enough new recruits to cover all the vacancies.

They apparently gave the night custody officers the option to move to day time and 80 showed interest but only 18 actually took it.
I'm being told that they are going to take up to around 200 now and allow the new ones to do overtime to fill the vacancies and then re-recruit next year again!?

I really don't know how true this is, i'm being told it is definitely correct but who knows!?

It would be hateful to go through that recruitment process again.a bit of overtime for us - I like it

weepete

euros1 wrote: »

Shawsy wrote: »

swl33t wrote: »

I would be doing 140 return so would have been up for that but yet to get a medical lol

Yep me too, i'm going to have to travel quite a way - but still waiting on that elusive medical
I just heard from someone already in the service that they are not planning on even taking on enough new recruits to cover all the vacancies.

They apparently gave the night custody officers the option to move to day time and 80 showed interest but only 18 actually took it.
I'm being told that they are going to take up to around 200 now and allow the new ones to do overtime to fill the vacancies and then re-recruit next year again!?

I really don't know how true this is, i'm being told it is definitely correct but who knows!?

It would be hateful to go through that recruitment process again.a bit of overtime for us - I like it

I would say to save money in this time of economic unrest they would use the 200-400+ merit list instead of running a new campaign, also i think under our contracts it'll be cheaper to pay us the overtime than the current officers.

Shawsy

weepete wrote: »

I would say to save money in this time of economic unrest they would use the 200-400+ merit list instead of running a new campaign, also i think under our contracts it'll be cheaper to pay us the overtime than the current officers.

Yea I don't know if it would make sense for them to completely re-advertise and go through everything again if they already have people on the merit list. I guess it would only be if it is after the merit list is valid to or something but i'm keeping my fingers crossed that I get in this time

weepete

Shawsy wrote: »

Yea I don't know if it would make sense for them to completely re-advertise and go through everything again if they already have people on the merit list. I guess it would only be if it is after the merit list is valid to or something but i'm keeping my fingers crossed that I get in this time

Well it aint over till the fat lady sings!
Keep the head up and the fingers crossed.

CityGirl88

missyk1 wrote: »

Would anyone be interested house sharing somewhere near to the venue as opposed to driving everyday? I drove down today and clocked 60 miles return x 5 days x 8 weeks ?

I was thinking this too, but surely it would be difficult to get an 8 week lease? I have a 200 mile round trip each day, it's gona be a long 8 weeks for me!

weepete

CityGirl88 wrote: »

missyk1 wrote: »

Would anyone be interested house sharing somewhere near to the venue as opposed to driving everyday? I drove down today and clocked 60 miles return x 5 days x 8 weeks ?

I was thinking this too, but surely it would be difficult to get an 8 week lease? I have a 200 mile round trip each day, it's gona be a long 8 weeks for me!

Has anybody inquired about residential accommodation on site for people travelling far or from down south?

CityGirl88

weepete wrote: »

Has anybody inquired about residential accommodation on site for people travelling far or from down south?

Yes I have and they just said I could speak to their travel department and they could help me out in looking into b&bs in the area, not much to go by really!

missyk1

Is anyone's ctc still in progress ?

Volcom900

missyk1 wrote: »

Is anyone's ctc still in progress ?

my ctc is completed but i haven't heard anything, i'm 229th in the merit list fingers crossed