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Detention Custody Officer (DCO) – Immigration Services
In-Country Escorting Services (ICE) – Yarl's Wood Vehicle Base
📌 Contract: 40 hours per week
💰 Salary: £30,029 per annum (depending on location and hours)
🎓 Training: 4-week fully paid training course
Who We're Looking For
We're looking for respectful, caring, and resilient individuals to join our team. If you have:
✔ Strong communication and interpersonal skills
✔ A calm and non-judgemental approach
✔ Great problem-solving abilities
✔ The ability to stay composed under pressure
Then this could be the perfect role for you!
What You'll Be Doing
As an In-Country Escorting DCO, you'll be responsible for:
This role requires flexibility, as you will work a mix of day and night shifts, covering a 24/7, 365-day operation.
No Experience? No Problem!
No prior experience or qualifications are needed—full training and support will be provided. If you have experience handling challenging situations or working with people in distress, it would be a plus.
Your journey begins with a 4-week paid training course, including a 7-day residential program in Oxfordshire. Over the next 12 months, you'll receive on-the-job mentoring and assessments, leading to an accredited Level 3 Apprenticeship in Detention and Custody.
Essential Requirements
To apply, you must:
✅ Be a UK Citizen, a Commonwealth Citizen with indefinite leave to remain (not through marriage), or an EEA Citizen
✅ Hold a valid UK passport (expired visas in out-of-date passports cannot be accepted)
✅ Have lived in the UK continuously for the past 5 years, with no single absence over 3 months
✅ Pass an Enhanced DBS check, employer referencing (last 5 years), and Counter-Terrorist Check (CTC) vetting
✅ Hold a full UK manual driving licence (at least 12 months of experience)
✅ Have fewer than 7 points on your licence and no driving bans in the last 12 months
✅ Pass a red/green colour-blind test (essential for airside driving requirements)
🚨 Important: If you do not have a valid UK passport and a full UK manual driving licence, we cannot proceed with your application.
Why Join Us?
⭐ Work-life balance – structured shifts for stability
📈 Career growth – start with a Level 3 Apprenticeship, with opportunities for leadership roles
💰 Comprehensive benefits – pension, private medical cover, share schemes & exclusive retail discounts
Application Process
Successful candidates will be invited to an assessment day, which includes:
📌 Interview
📌 Capability assessments
📌 Full vetting screening
🚀 Ready to take the next step? Apply now and start your journey with us!
Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.
We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.
When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!
We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).
We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!
Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.
Since 1987, Mitie’s 68,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.
Join our Mitie Team.
Together our diversity makes us stronger.
Looking to move roles but not leaving the Mitie family?
Why not share your experience with others about life at Mitie?
