Amy’s message 10th June

Thank you to everyone who worked over the Jubilee Bank Holiday weekend, I hope you have managed to have some well deserved time off since.  I hope everyone else enjoyed the long weekend and saw some sunshine where you were.

I enjoyed speaking to lots of you during our all staff live MS Teams event on Wednesday this week and inviting colleagues to join me to update you on the work we are doing including how we are recruiting and retaining staff to reduce workloads as well as how we are enhancing our learning and development – all of which will really support our journey to delivering excellent practice.

We had over 3,000 of you on the call so a big thank you to everyone who was able to join us.  We want to keep checking what you think about our events and identify if there are ways in which we can improve them so if you could take a few moments to tell us by completing our Slido Poll here or use the QR code below that would be greatly appreciated.

For those that were unable to attend on the day, you can access this recording of the event.

June is Pride month and this year is the 50^th anniversary of the first Pride event taking place. I am really proud and so grateful to all our champions and staff networks for their hard work throughout the year in supporting staff and making the MoJ a place where LGBT+ colleagues can feel they belong.

There are a range of events taking place throughout June giving everyone the opportunity to celebrate Pride and raise awareness – find out more here. The staff network Pride in Prisons and Probation (PiPP) are also looking for more colleagues to become local and regional leads as well as members and allies.  If you are interested in taking on one of these important roles, please get in touch via PiPP_HMPPS@justice.gov.uk

Just to remind we have a  number of recruitment campaigns ongoing which are open to you and your family and friends including training to be a Probation Officer which closes on 26 June (for internal staff) and part time admin roles for either university students or those wishing to return to the workplace so please do take a look if you are interested and let others know.

Finally, the Prison and Probation Officer of the Year awards are coming up this month and you now have the opportunity to vote for you winner in the Staff Support category.  The judging panel have selected the three Probation finalists for this category and you can find out how to vote here Staff Awards 2022: vote for your staff support winners – HMPPS Intranet (gsi.gov.uk).  Good Luck to Caroline, Linda and Sofena!

As always, thank you for all you are doing.

Amy