Careers at the Crown Prosecution Service
Start your Crown Prosecution Service journey today
At the Crown Prosecution Service, we are passionate about ensuring that we are a top-performing organisation and a great place to work. We are committed to being an equal opportunities employer and creating a culture where everyone can bring their whole self to work and individuality is truly appreciated. Find your purpose: join the Crown Prosecution Service and have a future that matters.
About working with us
We want to ensure our employees can thrive at work and home and offer a range of support to achieve a balance.
This includes flexibility of working hours, flexibility to support caring responsibilities and a flexible approach to deployment. For frontline roles you need to spend most of your working week in court. For other roles, you spend at least 40% of your contracted hours over a four-week period at court, in an office or another official workplace.
About our benefits
We offer a wide range of benefits including:
- Civil Service contributory pension of up to 28.9%
- 25 days’ leave, increasing to 30 days after five years
- an extra privilege day to mark the King's birthday
- competitive maternity, paternity and parental leave
- flexible working and a family friendly approach to work
- Cycle2Work scheme, employee savings.
About the Crown Prosecution Service
At the Crown Prosecution Service, we are responsible for delivering justice through the independent and effective prosecution of crime. As the principal prosecuting authority across England and Wales, the nature and diversity of cases we advise on and prosecute means our work is often emotionally challenging and complex. As such we employ over 7,000 individuals who think objectively, act professionally, show the utmost respect for others and continually strive for excellence.
Top tips for applying
- Tell us specific examples of your work and use headings to let us know which behaviour each example relates to.
- In each example, outline the situation, the task, the action you took and the result of your work.
- For legal roles, legal work experience is useful, but not always essential. Relevant experience can come from other work.
- GCSE and A-Level results won't hold you back. We know that some people find their skills and passions when they leave school, so we won't take these into account.
Current vacancies
Senior Sustainability Manager
Environment and SustainabilityFinanceOtherFinance Operations Lead
As the finance operations lead, you will lead a high performing team responsible for core financial functions including accounts payable, receivable, cash management and banking. With an annual payment volume of £250m, your work will be essential in ensuring CPS meets its financial obligations to suppliers, witnesses and staff – accurately, promptly and in line with government standards.Reporting to the Head of Finance Systems and Operations, you will provide day to day leadership, operational oversight and expert advice across a wide range of financial activities. You will also ensure that internal controls are robust and that CPS remains compliant with HM Treasury regulations and prompt payment guidance. This includes actively managing financial risk and preventing fraud through sound governance.Your role will be central to driving continuous improvement. Your new ideas for increasing efficiency and effectiveness will be crucial to enable CPS continuing success in an ever-changing world. This will require strong judgement, the ability to manage competing priorities, and the confidence to influence other stakeholder groups across our organisation.This is more than a finance role -it’s an opportunity to directly support justice outcomes by ensuring that financial operations run smoothly and professionally across one of the UK’s most important public services. If you are an experienced finance professional who is ready to lead, improve and make an impact, we would love to hear from you.The Crown Prosecution Service is based in England and Wales. If you’re applying for this role and live in Scotland or Northern Ireland, you must let us know when accepting this offer as you need permission to work from your home address if hybrid working is part of your role. There’s no guarantee that we will grant this approval. You must be aged 16 before starting in this role. The start date is expected to be 8-12 weeks after the application deadline. As part of this role, you are expected to undertake direct line management responsibilities.Area Advocacy Clerking Manager
Operational DeliveryLegal Manager
LegalRheolwr Cyfreithiol
LegalAdvocacy Clerking Manager
Operational DeliveryAdvocacy Clerking Manager - CPS Thames & Chiltern (1 post)
Operational DeliveryVictim Liaison Officer
Operational DeliveryNB: RRA = Recruitment and Retention Allowance
We hold regular question and answer sessions on Meet and Engage, where you can hear from our recruitment team and people working in the role and find out more.
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.
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.
We are ranked 36th in the Social Mobility Employer Index 2022, the leading authority on employer best practice.
We’re one of the top 10 employers for working families 2024.
We aspire to nine key good recruitment practice principles that help us acquire the talent we need to perform and grow.
We have been recognised in the Top 100 Apprenticeship Employers rankings 2023.