Assistant Facial Image Examiner - Band I

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MO4 Forensic Services
Lambeth
LAMBETH HQ
Band I
Full Time
36 hours per week
Permanent

Title: Assistant Facial Image Examiner

Salary: £34,643 to £39,434 plus £2,148 location allowance. You will receive £34,643 the band minimum. Progress to the band maximum of £39,434 will be via incremental progression.

Location: Lambeth

Our Forensic unit are looking for enthusiastic individuals to join our team. The role is for an Assistant Facial Image Examiner within the Facial Image Comparison team, working in the Level 3 Central Laboratory, based in Lambeth SE1.

You will have a varied and complex role including undertaking detailed casework, providing expert advice to stakeholders, as well as possible mentoring and line management responsibility. You will be delivering technical image analysis, image enhancement and facial comparison casework.

You will be expected to provide; technical assessment of image quality, the processing of imagery submitted for facial image comparison, and the examination and comparison of facial feature detail within imagery. You will also be required to enhance video and still imagery for the purposes of comparison or to aid investigation. In all of this you will ensure that the requirements of the forensic services quality management system for facial image comparison are met, with the aim of achieving ISO17025 accreditation.

In addition, to casework requirements the successful applicant will assist the Senior Facial Image Examiner and the Reporting Facial Image Examiners by providing guidance and support to other areas of the MPS involved in facial identification, delivering presentations at short notice to customers and stakeholders, assisting with internal and external projects relating to facial image comparison and enhancement, and keeping up to date with new research within the discipline.

The individual will demonstrate continual competence in all key technical activities, through competency and proficiency testing programmes. The individual is expected to attend available CPD courses in addition to taking responsibility for their own continuing professional development.

The successful candidate will be highly self-motivated with excellent communication skills (written and oral) and have the ability to work effectively, under pressure. The Assistant must be able to articulate their findings to fellow practitioners and non-practitioners.

To apply, please visit our website to download a role specific information pack and click on the link to complete and submit the online application form. You will also be required to submit a detailed CV and Personal Statement.

Completed applications must be submitted by 23.55pm on 11th May 2020.

We view diversity as fundamental to our success. To tackle today’s complex policing challenges, we need a workforce made up from all of London’s communities. Applications from across the community are therefore essential.

As a Disability Confident Committed Employer the Met have committed to ensuring that disabled people and those with long term health conditions have the opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations.

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Essential for the Role

  • 2:1 Honours degree or above in Science (or relevant subject) or experience in a related discipline.
  • Basic knowledge of facial anatomy.
  • Familiarity with the processing and enhancement of digital imagery.
  • Have a broad understanding of all Forensic disciplines, particularly those relating to digital forensics and evidential comparison.
  • Demonstrate a good knowledge of the Criminal Justice System and the regulatory and legal framework in which it operates.
  • Have a proven ability to work under pressure.
  • Be highly self motivated and have excellent communication skills (both verbal and written).
  • Agree to be on 24/7 on call team should the need arise.


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Reporting Facial Image Examiner

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The Met is committed to being an inclusive employer with a diverse and representative workforce at all levels. We encourage applications from people from the widest possible range of backgrounds, cultures and experiences. We particularly welcome applications from ethnic minority groups and females.

As a Disability Confident employer, the Met has committed to making disability equality part of our everyday practice. We ensure that people with disabilities and those with long term health conditions have the opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations. If you consider yourself to have access, workplace or reasonable adjustment requirements that need to be accommodated, we ask that you include this information within your application form. All matters will be treated in strict confidence and will not affect any recruitment decisions.

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This opportunity is closed to applications.