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<p>A considerable majority of Probation Officers first join the Probation Service
as Trainee Probation Officers. During their time as a trainee, they will spend around
15-21 months training before potentially taking up a post as a Band 4 Probation Officer.
As a result of this trainee pipeline, there will only be new Probation Officers with
less than one year in the Probation Service if they joined the service as a qualified
Probation Officer and then left within 12 months.</p><p>Retention of Probation staff
is a priority for the service. A national standardised approach to exit interviews
has been implemented to better understand the key drivers of attrition and feedback
from these interviews helps shape and determine retention interventions at a local
and national level.</p><p>The Probation Service is in its second year of a multi-year
pay deal for staff. Salary values of all pay bands will increase each year, targeted
at key operational grades to improve a challenging recruitment and retention position.
The pay increases differ for each job role, but to provide an example Probation Officers
will see their starting salary rise from £30,208 in 2021/22 to £35,130 by 2024/25.</p><p>The
table below shows only those Probation Officers who joined the service as qualified
Probation Officers and so will not include any Probation Officers who joined as trainees
(who will all have been in the service for longer than a year by the time they qualify
as a Probation Officer). The Probation Service unified in June 2021, bringing together
the National Probation Service and Community Rehabilitation Companies. As a result,
figures pre- and post-June 2021 are not comparable because of the change in the workforce
makeup.</p><p> </p><p>Table 1 - Number of Band 4 Probation Officer joiners to HMPPS
and those who left HMPPS within 1 year: 2022-2023</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>All
joiners</p></td><td><p>Staff who left within 1 year</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022</p></td><td><p>42</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2023</p></td><td><p>44</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr></tbody></table>
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