Benefits and Rewards
Joining Hampshire & Isle of Wight Constabulary is more than just a career choice; it’s a chance to secure your future. We know that to perform at your best, you need to feel valued and supported. That’s why we offer:
Annual Salary
Starting Salary: £31,907 (including a £2,000 South East allowance), rising to over £50,000 after seven years.
Annual Leave
Twenty five days paid leave each year, continually rising until 30 days paid leave at ten years service.
Career Progression Programmes
Our Advance Programme
Advance is a key element of our commitment to creating and sustaining a diverse and inclusive work force at all levels by welcoming difference. If selected you would be joining a group of Sergeants and Inspectors and Police Staff from across the Force, each identified as having the potential for career progression to senior roles.
What will candidates get out of the programme?
- Building a strong understanding of personal style and its links to leadership
- Increasing self-awareness and confidence around one’s own strengths
- Increased awareness of different styles and backgrounds within credible leadership
- Increased ability to feel a sense of belonging in leadership roles and an organisational peer group within policing
- Participation and self-ownership of an ongoing peer support network
- Increased participation in upcoming force promotion processes or a stronger sense of one’s own career development and goals
The Potential Development Programme
The Potential Development Programme is Hampshire & Isle of Wight Constabulary’s flagship personal development and talent management programme.
Open to all officer ranks from Constable to Chief Inspector and Police Staff grades, this 12-month programme creates a challenging development environment for our high performers that may not currently have an interest in promotion and rank progression, but that just want to be their very best in current or lateral roles.
Police Pension
Generous pension scheme
The normal pension age (NPA) is 60
Option to take pension from 55, known as the normal minimum pension age (NMPA), subject to reductions applied to your pension
At retirement, you can exchange pension for a one off lump sum
Immediate pension benefits payable if you are retired on the grounds of ill-health
Flexibility to pay more – through buying additional pension
Hampshire Police Leisure and Sport
Hampshire Police Leisure and Sport (HPLS) supports serving and retired police officers and staff to enjoy their leisure time more, stay active, keep well and save money. Offering a wide range of sporting options, including, athletics, badminton, clay shooting, climbing, cricket, CrossFit, fishing, football, (men’s, ladies’ and veteran’s), golf, martial arts, netball, rugby, sailing, squash, tennis, triathlon and many more.
Subscriptions can be deducted from pay or pension at £3 per month.
Wellbeing Support
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary have an extensive offer.
Mental and Emotional Support
- Trauma Management Process
- Bereavement Support
- Managing Mental Health – Support Your Mental Health, reduce work stress and create a better work/life balance, protect your mind from anxiety, ptsd and burn out, help you to avoid over-thinking things, worrying about the future or experiencing self-doubt.
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) Known As The Employee Support Line
As officers and staff of Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary, you have access to free, confidential and impartial Employee Support, provided by Health Assured. With one phone call you can get help rather than allowing your concerns to grow. These services are free, confidential and available to you 24/7 365 days a year while you work for the force and for up to 3 months after you have left.
Your immediate family members (partner/spouse and children aged 16-24 in full time education living at the same address) can access the telephone helpline for counselling support and can access structured telephone counselling if needed too.
Positive Action Programme
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary serves a vast area of different communities. In order to create an engaging and effective organisation we need to reflect the diverse communities that we serve.
Historically, it has been found that particular groups face disadvantage in joining or progressing through an organisation. These can be under-represented groups or individuals with a protected characteristic of:
- Age
- Sexual Orientation
- Gender Reassignment
- Pregnancy & Maternity
- Disability
- Sex
- Marriage/Civil Partnership
- Race
- Religion or Belief (including lack of)
Therefore, positive action can be used to reduce this disadvantage, in the form of taking active steps to support those through recruitment or promotion stages. The Positive Action Team is here to assist in this process and to make Hampshire Constabulary a diverse and inclusive organisation. This is supported by the College of Policing, National Police Chiefs Council and is actively encouraged in police forces throughout the country.
