Recruitment of more than 300 staff for the new Spring Hill Corrections Facility (SHCF) being built near Huntly kicks off this month.
SHCF is the last of the four new facilities to open and is also the largest, employing a total of 341 staff.
It sits on a 215 hectare site and will house 650 male prisoners. The campaign will be targeted throughout the Waikato and South Auckland and will be fronted by the new SHCF management team. Interim Prison Manager Reti Pearse says that the campaign will appeal to those looking for a secure career that offers variety and a challenge.
“The role of a Corrections officer appeals to people across the board, but the one thing these people will have in common is the ability to act as positive role models to prisoners in a facility designed to encourage self-responsibility and prepare them for their release back into the community,” he says.
The campaign continues the positive role model theme that underpinned previous Corrections officer recruitment campaigns. The faces on advertising posters are role models currently working at existing prisons in the Waikato.
The campaign will also aim to attract nurses, probation officers, business and industry workers, administrators and HR people.
The current campaign for SHCF will run until the end of the year. Two further campaigns are planned in the New Year to recruit the staff needed for the facility so it can accept its first prisoners in November 2007.
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