Assistant Forensic Administrator (Forensic Operational Support)
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Job Title: Assistant Forensic Administrator (Forensic Operational Support)
Salary: £23,653 to £25,835 plus an allowance of £1,639. You will receive £23,653 the band minimum. Progress to the band maximum of £25,835 will be via incremental progression.
Location: Lambeth
MORE CHALLENGES. MORE EXCITEMENT. MORE OPPORTUNITIES. BE AT THE HEART OF A CHANGING SERVICE.
This is an exciting time to be working as an Assistant Forensic Administrator for the Metropolitan Police Service. In addition to large-scale transformation, there's the unique and ever-evolving challenge of policing London. This means that as an Assistant Forensic Administrator, there are more opportunities for you to get involved with making London the safest global city in a time of unprecedented change within the UK's largest Police Service.
MO4 – Forensic Services
As an integral part of the Metropolitan Police Service, the Directorate of Forensic Services contributes significantly to making London safer through a wide range of technical and scientific expertise in order to investigate, detect and reduce crimes. These include crime scene management and examination, specialist imaging, evidence recovery, exhibit analysis, fingerprint comparison and digital examination.
As an Assistant Forensic Administrator you will carry out administrative functions in support of technical forensic staff and services. You will be part of an experienced team responsible for the administrative support of forensic submissions from across the MPS. Our teams are responsible for approximately 230,000 forensic submissions per year, and deal with enquiries in respect of the progress and results of these examinations. This means our teams work in a fast paced and dynamic environment, where they are required to process a forensic submission from receipt to conclusion, ensuring that submissions are accurately processed, allocated and recorded. You will be the first point of contact for internal and external customers seeking advice on a forensic investigation and provide an effective, efficient administrative support function for the Directorate of Forensic Services.
The Role
You will be part of an experienced team responsible for the administrative support of forensic submissions from across the MPS. Our teams are responsible for approximately 230,000 forensic submissions per year, and deal with enquiries in respect of the progress and results of these examinations. This means our teams work in a fast paced and dynamic environment, where they are required to process a forensic submission from receipt to conclusion, ensuring that submissions are accurately processed, allocated and recorded. You will be the first point of contact for internal and external customers seeking advice on a forensic investigation and provide an effective, efficient administrative support function for the Directorate of Forensic Services.
Key Responsibilities:
- To work within the Directorate’s Quality Management System and actively participate in the continuous improvement of the system by engaging in audits, competence tests, reporting non-conformances etc and suggesting changes to improve the system
- Dealing with exhibits delivered via dispatch or in person. Tasks to include accepting and checking the accuracy of information and the continuity and integrity of exhibits requiring forensic analysis.
- Follow the correct procedures in receiving submissions to include batch receipting of exhibits.
- Maintain accurate records of exhibits received.
- Make and manage appointments for internal and external visitors such as those attending for video lab downloads, Criminal Justice System professionals and for visa fingerprint applications. Deal with appointment cancellations efficiently and contact non-arrivals and invoice a non-arrival fee where appropriate.
- Ensure environmental standards are maintained in line with ISO standards
- Highlight and bring to line manager attention exhibits for potential rejection which do not conform to prescribed standards.
- Interrogate and update databases to ensure exhibits are correctly authorised / approved.
- Appropriately store exhibits, in line with the rules of continuity and integrity, for allocation to a technical specialist. Return exhibits and forward statements to relevant Police Officer on conclusion of examinations.
- Deal with telephone queries. These may involve requests for the retrieval of case files for court purposes, submission enquiries and general casework information. Direct calls to appropriate personnel when required.
- Retrieve case files / archive files on requests
- Take fingerprints from member of the public ensuring the prints are of good quality and the form is accurately completed. Efficiently and accurately process payments for fingerprinting services.
- Complete administrative functions in association with tasks undertaken.
- Work in partnership with Department of Forensic Services and line managers to develop and deliver change
- Comply with all Health and Safety obligations
- Manage resources in accordance with MPS policy
- Flexible working to meet operational demand
Please click on the below link to view an online candidate information pack that will you give you an insight into the Met, the competency framework we use which shapes our daily work behaviours, the application process and a host of other information, that will help inform and support your application:
https://sscl-innovation.com/MPScandidatepack/
To apply, please visit our website to download a role-specific information pack. Applications will be via an online application and a detailed CV.
Completed applications must be submitted by 11th March 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.
Knowledge, Skills & Experience
- Competent IT user in a variety of corporate and stand alone systems and applications
- Ability to manage workloads and resources
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Manual handling essential to transport exhibits.
- Ability to build effective relationships with customers, colleagues and stakeholders
- Ability to manage customer expectation.
- An awareness of the rules regarding evidence gathering, exhibit handling, continuity, integrity and the criminal justice system
Disability Confident Statement
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.
Read our full disability confidence statement.
This opportunity is closed to applications.