Digital Forensic Manager

22641

2
MO4 Forensic Services
See description
Band C
Full Time
36 hours per week
Permanent

Job Title: Digital Forensic Manager

Salary: The starting salary is £48,995, which includes allowances totalling £3,009.

The salary is broken down as £45,986 basic salary, which will increase annually until you reach the top of the scale £54,863. Plus, a location allowance of £2,009 and a non-pensionable allowance of £1,000.

Location: Lambeth, Pan London

 

Digital Forensics is seeking experienced and motivated Managers to join two key teams: Digital Devices and Frontline Services.

These roles offer an exciting opportunity to lead and develop high-performing teams at the forefront of digital forensic investigation. You will play a critical role in delivering efficient, high-quality services that support the investigation of serious crime across the MPS.

As a manager, you will provide strong leadership, guidance, and support to your team. You will oversee operational demand, assess staffing needs, and allocate resources effectively to ensure timely and efficient delivery of casework in line with Criminal Justice (CJ) system expectations.

You will:

  • Lead the day-to-day management and throughput of forensic casework
  • Monitor team performance, capability, and wellbeing
  • Analyse management information to identify trends and drive improvements
  • Ensure compliance with MPS values, standards, and HR policies
  • Be accountable for team performance and delivery of departmental objectives
  • Provide updates on progress of submissions to both officers and the court
  • Manage expectations on technical capability and turnaround times
  • Provide advice and guidance to MPS personnel on submissions and examination timelines
  • Drive continuous improvement and support the implementation of new procedures, working closely with DF Technical Leads

The Teams

Digital Devices (Lambeth HQ)


You will work alongside two other Digital Forensics Managers to lead a large team of approximately 35 Digital Forensic Specialists. The team delivers complex digital forensic casework, and you will be responsible for their day-to-day management, performance, and welfare.

Frontline Services (Pan-London)


This role supports Frontline Services operating across 14 locations within the MPS. You will collaborate with three other DF Managers to ensure operational demand is met consistently across all sites, maintaining a responsive and effective service, ensuring line managers are overseeing their staff's day-to-day management, performance, and welfare.

What We’re Looking For

We are seeking confident leaders who can inspire teams, manage competing priorities, and drive performance in a fast-paced, operational environment. Strong communication, decision-making, and organisational skills are essential.

Additional Information

Successful candidates will need to provide a DNA and fingerprint elimination sample for Forensic Services' embargo database.

Digital Forensics may be introducing a 24/7 operating model as part of an investment and transformation plan to ensure the best service to support operational policing. These teams will work on a rotational shift pattern compromising early, late and night shifts, inclusive of weekends. All new staff are eligible to be placed on a shift rota subject to the relevant notice given, however in the first instance placements on these teams will be allocated to those who volunteer, any remaining places will be allocated by management and will also be subject to certain skills required to support out of hours services.

This post does not currently fall within the structure of the 24/7 teams, however by applying for this role you understand that you could be placed on one of these 24/7 shift teams in the future should business need require it. This will be subject to consultation and a notice period.

This role does not attract Shift Disturbance Allowance. If you are currently in a shift-working role, SDA should cease upon appointment to this job.

How to apply

To begin your career at the Met, please click the "apply button “. The application process requires a comprehensive CV and an online application form.  Please ensure that your documents are saved in either PDF or Word format, clearly labelled as CV.

Please ensure your answers to the competency based questions do not exceed 400 words.

Completed applications must be submitted by 23:55 on 21st September 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.

www.metpolicecareers.co.uk

Essential Criteria:

Knowledge:

  • Confident in HR management processes
  • Understanding of financial and budgetary issues
  • Awareness of performance metrics and ways these can be measured

Experience:

  • Line management
  • Managing teams with competing priorities
  • Leading, motivating and supporting staff within a pressurised environment
  • Experience of engaging, supporting and constructively advising mangers and stakeholders

Skills:

  • Competent in Office 365 products
  • Confident decision maker and problem-solver
  • Risk Management
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and ability to engage, build and maintain effective relationships with personnel and customers at all levels
  • Ability to work to deadlines, identifying barriers to completion and escalating where required

Desirable:

  • Experience working in a forensic environment
  • Understanding of relevant legal powers/procedures/acts
  • Experience working within a quality management system
The following competencies will be tested against during sift:
  • We are emotionally aware at level 2
  • We support and inspire at level 2
Disability Confident Statement 

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.

Read our full disability confidence statement.


This opportunity is closed to applications.