Roster Planner - M06 Public Order Command - 01

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MO6 Public Order Planning
Lambeth
Band E
Full Time
36 hours per week
Permanent

Job Title: Roster Planner - M06 Public Order Command - 01

Salary: The starting salary is £34,808 which includes allowances totalling £2,928.

The salary is broken down as £31,880 basic salary, which will increase annually until you reach the top of the scale £34,108 Plus, a location allowance of £1,928 and a non-pensionable allowance of £1,000.

Location: Lambeth

 

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Roster Planning Team as a Roster Planner within the Metropolitan Police.

MO6 is a multi-faceted OCU that not only plans and delivers all policing plans in response to spontaneous and pre-planned events in London, we are also responsible for the delivery of all CARM related work such as yearly roster renewals, shift pattern changes, the movement of staff around the MPS, CARM access, overtime, pay queries and the management of annual leave and rest days.

The Role

The Roster Planning team are responsible for the roster planning of approximately 43,000 officers and staff within Frontline Policing, Specialist Crime, Met Operations and the HQ OCUs. You will deal with the renewal and update of over 16,000 rosters in CARM each year, ensuring rosters comply with police regulations, working time legislation, and operational requirements. As a Roster Planner within the Roster Planning Team, you will play a key role in the delivery of this work.

Working for the Met doesn’t have to mean patrolling the streets. Just as important as our uniformed officers is our 14,000-strong team of professional and support staff working behind the scenes. It’s these skilled people who provide the organisational capability to police London.

Duties and Responsibilities

  • Maintain and update annual rosters in the CARM (Computer Aided Resource Management) system, ensuring accuracy so that policing operations are adequately resourced.
  • Forecast and plan for known events and high-demand dates, integrating them into roster schedules to ensure operational resilience.
  • Monitor rosters for compliance with Working Time Regulations and police regulations, escalating anomalies and issues where required, to a supervisor to ensure staff welfare and organisational compliance.
  • Respond to roster-related enquiries from line managers and Single Points of Contact (SPOCs), providing accurate advice to enable effective local decision-making.
  • Test and implement new system functions (CARM and Resource Management systems), contributing to governance and project groups to improve efficiency and compliance.
  • Participate in internal MO6 working groups, providing roster planning input and contributing to improvements in practice.
  • Collaborate with colleagues within the roster planning team to balance workloads and maintain consistent service delivery.
  • Monitor and respond to team mailbox queries within agreed timeframes, ensuring accurate and timely advice to staff and managers.

How to apply

To begin your career at the Met, please click the "apply  button “. The application process requires a comprehensive CV, a Personal Statement, and an online application form. In your Personal Statement, you should explain your interest in the position and illustrate how your skills and experiences make you a suitable candidate. Please note that you should not submit two copies of your CV, and ensure that your documents are saved in either PDF or Word format, clearly labelled as CV and/or Personal Statement.

Completed applications must be submitted by 23:55 on 19th January 2026.

Once received, your application will be reviewed against eligibility criteria, following this, your application will be reviewed by the hiring manager. 

Following application review, successful candidates will be invited to interview. 

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Who we’re looking for -

Essential skills and experience

  • Ability to analyse roster data and identify compliance risks.
  • Proficient IT skills, including use of spreadsheets and corporate applications.
  • Clear written and verbal communication skills to engage with managers and staff at all levels.

Desirable

  • Effective IT competence
  • Experience of using excel based spreadsheets and an aptitude to adapt to using various corporate IT applications

Knowledge

  • Understanding of roster management systems and workforce planning principles.
  • Awareness of police staff terms & conditions, police regulations, and Working Time Regulations


Benefits

You will enjoy the kind of great benefits that you’d expect from one of London's largest employers.

These include:

  • Annual leave entitlement of 28 days plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days after 5 years of service
  • Civil service pension arrangements
  • Interest free season ticket loans
  • Membership of Met sports and social clubs
  • Flexible working conditions and many more.

London is one of the most exciting and diverse cities in the world – and policing it is no easy task. It takes a huge number of people from all sorts of different backgrounds with a wide range of skills and experience. Do you have what it takes to be one of them? Find out if a career with the Met is what you’re looking for and what kind of challenges; experience and rewards you could have in store.

To streamline our recruitment process, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.

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The Met is committed to being an equitable (fair and impartial) and inclusive employer for disabled people, striving to have 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 people with disabilities and long-term conditions, ethnic minority groups and women.

As a Disability Confident Leader, the Met has committed to making disability equality part of our everyday practice. We ensure that people with disabilities and those with long term conditions have the opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations.

The Met is committed to making reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process to ensure disabled applicants can perform at their best. If you need any reasonable adjustments or changes to the application and recruitment process, we ask that you include this information within your application form. All matters will be treated in strict confidence.

Please note, if you are applying for a police officer role or to become a police community support officer (PCSO) or designated detention officer (DDO), there is a minimum requirement that you must pass a job-related fitness test (JRFT) at point of entry. This does not apply to police staff roles. Find out more about police fitness standards.

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This opportunity is closed to applications.