Senior Reporting Fingerprint Examiner
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Job Title: Senior Reporting Fingerprint Examiner
Salary: The starting salary is £51,637, which includes allowances totalling £2,841.
The salary is broken down as £48,796 basic salary, which will increase annually until you reach the top of the scale £52,730 Plus, a location allowance of £1,841 and a non-pensionable allowance of £1,000.
Location: Lambeth
The Metropolitan Police first began collecting fingerprint evidence in 1901. As our workload grows, we need to bring a Senior Reporting Fingerprint Examiner to our dedicated team. A leading professional in your field, you’ll take on a crucial role at our highest technical grade.
This is an exceptional opportunity to be involved in high-profile and serious cases including counter Terrorism. The role holder will be working in Biometrics - Secure Operation Forensic Services within the Forensic Directorate. The team provides forensic services to Counter Terrorism Policing and other national security partners across the UK and Worldwide. The job holder will be a Senior Reporting Fingerprint Examiner, who has successful completed the fingerprint course to advance level and worked in a recognised Fingerprint Bureau. On a daily basis the job holder will be processing fingerprint enquiries of Counter Terrorism and national security matters. The role holder will be required to assess, examine and maximise the forensic potential from crime scenes, exhibits submissions and cadaver. You’ll also give the final independent verification and critical findings check of reported decisions, which means this role comes with great deal of responsibility.
You’ll also be expected to present complex evidence and your expert opinion within the Criminal Justice System. You’ll draw on extensive technical knowledge, which will help you train and mentor the team’s more junior staff too.
A qualified fingerprint expert with examiner training, you’ve successfully completed the expert witness course. You bring wide-ranging experience within fingerprint casework plus the ability to work well under pressure. You may be required to proffer an interpretative opinion on finger mark deposition and add value to the presentation of fingerprint evidence within the courts. This will require considerable experience and technical knowledge and communication skills to express yourself clearly and work as part of a team, you will share our motivation to serve a diverse, 8 million-strong London population.
Please note that Forensic Services provides 24/7 operational support. This may require shift/rostered working and on-call arrangements. This is currently a non-shift role, however, occasionally, due to operational demand there may be a requirement/option to join the 24/7 shift teams which will attract 20% for the period of posting into a shift pattern.
Additional Information
Please note this vacancy is open for full time and part time opportunities.
Vetting
This post requires access to the most sensitive intelligence material on a daily basis. Applicants must hold or be prepared to undergo National Security Vetting (NSV) Security Check (enhanced) (SC(e)) level before taking up the post; with a willingness to undergo Developed Vetting (DV) once in post, if required.
Additionally, this material is of particular sensitivity to the UK and its distribution must be restricted to UK nationals. In approved circumstances dual nationals (of which one element is British) may also be granted access. However, in the event that potential conflicts of interest cannot be managed the post holder will not be able to see the intelligence material and will not be able to perform their duties. For the purpose of safeguarding national security and in line with Cabinet Office Policy, supported by Section 82(2) to (4) of the Police Reform Act (2002), applicants who do not hold or acquire Security Check (enhanced) (SC(e)) OR Developed Vetting (DV) clearance and meet the nationality requirements cannot be offered the post.
How to apply
Click the apply now button below and start your career at the Met. Applications will be via a detailed online application form.
Completed applications must be submitted by 23:55 on 15th April 2024.
Essential Criteria:
The role holder will:
- have completed relevant fingerprint training course to Advanced Level and worked in a recognised Fingerprint Bureau
- be an experienced practitioner with an extensive knowledge of the fingerprint domain and relevant IT systems. They will be expected to have successfully completed the fingerprint examiner training programme, culminating in an expert witness course and will demonstrate continual competence in all technical key activities.
- possess a good knowledge of the Criminal Justice System and will have gained a wide-range of experience within fingerprint casework of varying complexity
- be highly self-motivated with excellent communication skills (written and oral) and have the ability to work under pressure. The SRFE must be able to articulate their findings to fellow practitioners and non-practitioners.
- be required to keep up to date with the progress of both internal and external developments within the field of fingerprints.
- be required to provide a DNA sample and fingerprints for inclusion on the staff elimination databases.
- be required to indicate agreement to abide by the MPS Standards of Conduct
- be required to work within Forensic Services Quality Management System
- be required to gain SC clearance status.
- be required to have the appropriate inoculations to undertake this role.
- be required to pass an MPS eye test (20/20 vision with or without visual aid.
Desirable Criteria
- A good understanding of all disciplines within the Directorate of Forensic Services
Application Process
The initial application process will be assessed against two aspects the Competency and Values Framework (CVF):
We deliver, support and inspire – level 2
- Research shows that most people now have multiple jobs throughout their working life, in Fingerprints we invest heavily in time and money to provide essential training and seek to retain new joiners for their entire career; as an SRFE how could you ensure that new colleagues remain motivated and satisfied?
Can you give an example of when you delivered within the workplace and how you used this to support and inspire your colleagues. 500 words maximum
We are innovative and open-minded – level 2
- To ensure that the MET is match-fit we look to embrace new ideas, what factors would you consider when delivering change within fingerprints?
What have you done to improve or influence the areas you have worked in? 500 words maximum
Those successful at the paper-sift stage will be invited to interview.
There will be a pre-interview task, candidates will be given 30 minutes to prepare a 10-minute presentation – details to be provided on the day.
The presentation will be followed by a structured interview which will be assessed against the remaining CVF elements:
We are emotionally aware – level 2
We are collaborative – level 2
We take ownership – level 3
We analyse critically – level 3
- We are innovative and open-minded at level 2
- We support, deliver and inspire at level 2
- Professionalism
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.
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