Start your career with the Crown Prosecution Service
Here at the Crown Prosecution Service, we’re committed to being a high-performing organisation and an excellent place to work. We believe in equal opportunities and creating a workplace where everyone can be themselves and their individuality is valued.
Join us and find meaningful work that makes a difference to society.
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It’s not just legal jobs, we recruit a wide range of professions here.
Why work here
Join us and find a meaningful role that makes a difference to society.
What our people say
Don’t take our word for it, hear what our staff think about working here.
Featured jobs
Many of our roles are available across England and Wales.
Crown advocates
We are recruiting to the following roles - Crown Advocate Level 2, Crown Advocate Level 3 and Senior Crown Advocate (Crown Advocate Level 4) - with applications open from 27 October to 16 November 2025.
Legal trainee
We are recruiting legal trainees across England and Wales - including Welsh-speaking trainees - from 5 January 2026. You can apply to be a trainee solicitor or a pupil barrister starting with us in September 2027.
What is the Crown Prosecution Service?
We protect the public by prosecuting the right person for the right offence. We’re independent and we make our decisions fairly and objectively by following our Code for Crown Prosecutors.
Why we work here
How to get a job with us
Civil Service Jobs
You can find all Crown Prosecution Service jobs – along with other Civil Service and central government organisation jobs – on Civil Service Jobs.
Success profiles
The Civil Service recruits using success profiles - which means we consider what you need to demonstrate to be successful for each role we advertise.
Tips for applying
Tell us specific examples of your work and let us know which behaviour each example relates to. Outline the situation, task, action you took and result of your work.
Current jobs
Crown Prosecution Service recognition
Disability Confident Leader
At CPS disabled people and those with long-term health conditions have opportunities to fulfil their potential, and we play a leading role in shifting attitudes towards disability.
We’re one of just 10 government departments with leader status.
Carer Confident
Our Level 2 Carer Confident certificate identifies us as accomplished in providing support to staff who are carers to make the most of the talents they bring to the workplace.
Our Carers Passport and Carers Charter have been highlighted as examples of best practice.
Social Mobility Employer Index
We are ranked 36th in the Social Mobility Employer Index 2022, the leading authority on employer best practice.
We show continuing commitment to supporting social mobility and improving the way we find, recruit and develop all our people.
Working Families
We’re one of the top 10 employers for working families 2024.
This benchmark allows us to measure our flexible and family-friendly policies and activities against current practice, and to identify areas where we should be targeting future activities.
The Good Recruitment Charter
We aspire to nine key good recruitment practice principles that help us acquire the talent we need to perform and grow.
This charter allows us to provide great candidate experiences and helps ensure that the UK workforce is used to its full potential.
Top 100 Apprenticeship Employers
We have been recognised in the Top 100 Apprenticeship Employers rankings 2023.
These rankings help future apprentices, parents and careers advisers to identify apprenticeship opportunities at the country’s leading employers.