PCSO Salary and Benefits
What we offer
Salary and allowences
You will join us on Scale 4 (£26,106 to £28,653 per annum). You’ll also get additional weekend enhancement and shift allowance payments of potentially around £4800 per annum (depending on your shift pattern). This is payable after the initial training period.
Annual leave
You will have 24 days of annual leave holiday per year.
Flexible working
We aim to capture a broad spectrum of the community for this role and understand that home life can be busy, so we take into consideration all flexible working pattern requests with each one being considered on a case by case basis.
Any flexible working agreement will only come into effect after the first 15 weeks initial training.
Further benefits
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary benefits are extensive and include:
- Flexible working opportunities (see above)
- An attractive contributory pension scheme
- Childcare Voucher and Cycle to Work schemes
- Access to Hampshire Police Leisure and Sport (providing a range of family and sporting activities)
- Gym facilities at a number of our buildings
- Access to the Blue Light Card (Welcome to Blue Light Card)
Disability confident
The Disability Confident campaign aims to remove barriers, increase understanding and ensure that people have opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations.
We will accommodate requests for reasonable adjustments where possible throughout our recruitment and promotions processes. We will also continuously looking at ways to improve how we recruit, retain and develop candidates and employees with a disability.
Our support networks
We have a dedicated Equality and Inclusion Team who are here to provide support and guidance on our internal networks, reasonable adjustments and equality impact assessments. We work with ‘Inclusive Employers’ who which provide us with equality training and consultancy.
Within the organisation there are a number of support networks for staff and officers to join or go to for advice and support. These include, but not exclusively: Inspire for women, BEAM (Black, Ethnic & Minority) Support Network, Gypsy Roma and Traveller Network, Enable, Disability and Carers network, Police Chaplaincy and Hampshire LGBT network.
Anyone can join any network; it is about sharing skills and experience to learn, develop and challenge.
Positive action
If your interview was successful, you will then receive a conditional offer of employment from us, with all the details of the role being offered to you. Your letter will contain links and instructions to initiate your pre-employment checks.
These checks will include:
- Reference form asking for 5 years of employment history
- Police vetting, including biometrics
- Medical and ryesight form
- Job related fitness test (Bleep test to level 5.4)
- Evidence of Level 2 qualifications in English and maths if applicable (see eligibility for further information)
- Posting preference form
Posting Preferences
We ask you to complete this form so that we can gather some more information about your current home location and circumstances. This allows us to find a suitable posting for you, also taking into account our current operational need.
Take a look at our current posting information here.
Currently, we are looking for candidates who are able to work in most areas of Hampshire and the isle of Wight.
Some of the checks we complete can be lengthy, especially in relation to the police vetting process, so we ask you to be patient with us. We will be working hard to get you processed as quickly as possible.
As soon as you have cleared all the above checks, you will be notified and be enrolled on the next available PCSO intake.
For further information
We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer, and we value difference. We strive to be reflective of the diverse communities we serve and we encourage applications from people from all backgrounds.
To ensure every potential candidate has an equal opportunity of fairness, we offer support and guidance from the start. Whether you are just thinking about a role within Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary or have already applied, the Positive Action Team are here to assist you.
For more information please email: positive.action@hampshire.police.uk.
