Trainee Probation Officer Recruitment 2008

Dear Applicant.

If you have been invited to an assessment centre you will have been told that one of the exercises you will have to undertake is a written exercise. Following this message is an example of the written exercise from last years assessment centre and an example of a submission by a successful applicant. You may wish to practice your own response prior to looking at the example. Good luck with your assessment Centre

Mandy Pointon
Training Projects Manager

Sample Exercise (file size 16kb)   The Exercise (file size 17kb)


Careers in the National Probation Service (file size 347kb)

A Diploma in Probation Studies has been developed and is delivered through the consortia of probation areas working with higher education institutions and NVQ assessment centres since 1998.  The Diploma in Probation Studies is the professional qualification which confers probation officer status on successful trainees, subject to employment by a local probation board.

For the purposes of selection and recruitment, the probation areas have been divided into nine separate consortia areas as follows:

London Probation Human Resources Department
Mitre House
223-237 Borough High Street
London
SE1 1JD
Tel: 020 7740 8500
Fax: 020 7740 8448

East of England Probation Training & Development Consortium
Crowland House
Withersfield Road
Haverhill
Suffolk
CB9 9LA
Tel: 01440 705 875
Fax: 01440 761 399

To visit the East of England Probation Consortium website, click here

North East Probation Training & Development Consortium
c/o Northumbria Probation Area
Dene House
Durham Road
Low Fell
Gateshead
NE9 5AE
Tel: 0191 491 1693
Fax: 0191 491 3726

North West Consortium
Sefton House
1 Molyneux Way
Old Roan
Liverpool
L10 2JA
Tel: 0151 531 6183
Fax: 0151 526 0692

To visit the North West Probation Consortium website, click here

South East Regional Probation Training Consortium
College House
Woodbridge Road
Guilford
Surrey
GU1 4RS
Tel: 01483 304 963
Fax: 01483 440 601

To visit the South East Probation Consortium website, click here

South West Training & Development Consortium
c/o Gloucestershire Probation Area
Oakes House
55-57 London Road
Gloucester
GL1 3HF
Tel: 01452 551 221
Fax: 01452 551 210

Midlands Consortium
Stowe Court
Stowe Street
Lichfield
Staffordshire
WS13 6AQ
Tel: 01543 416 776
Fax: 01543 419 361

To visit the Midlands Probation Training Consortium website, click here

Yorkshire & Humberside Consortium
Devonshire House
38 York Place
Leeds
LS1 2ED
Tel: 0113 244 6044
Fax: 0113 245 1394

To visit Yorkshire & Humberside Probation Consortium website, click here

Wales Probation Consortium
4-7 The Broadway
Pontypridd
CF37 1BA
Tel: 01443 494 333
Fax: 01443 494 285

To visit the Wales Probation Training Consortium website, click here

For further information visit:
The Community Justice National Training Organisation