Coroner's Officer Manager

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Central Specialist Crime
Croydon
Band K2
Full Time
36 hours per week
Permanent

Job Title: Coroner's Officer Manager

Salary: £36,101 to £37,625 plus a Location allowance of £1,721. You will receive £36,101 the band minimum. Progress to the band maximum of £37,625 will be via incremental progression.

Location: This is a court-based role at South London Coroner's Court in Croydon. We cannot accommodate permanent remote working in this role.  

 

Key Purpose

To provide leadership and management to coroner’s officers and to coordinate activity, with the coroner and local authority, to ensure an efficient and effective service.

 Performance and Management Duties

  • To oversee and manage the performance of coroner’s officers, including monitoring all death notifications and ensuring that the action taken (or proposed action) is in accordance with coroner’s directions and that relevant paperwork is completed to the required standard and monitoring progress against the inquest investigation plan as set by the coroner

  • Collate, monitor, review and evaluate performance information (relating to workload statistics* and compliance with performance standards) and management information (including overtime, allowances, sickness, training), in terms of Individual coroner’s officers, each team, the jurisdiction as measured against targets set with the coroner and the MPS. Identify positive and negative trends and take remedial action as appropriate.

* Excluding, provision of statistics to bodies other than the MPS

  • Plan for future demands on the jurisdiction and be proactive about securing relevant resources

  • Take an active role in the continual improvement of the Coroner’s Officers Service by liaising with coroners, MPS management and the local authorities to develop co-ordinated policies and working practices. Provide support to other jurisdictions as and when required

Training and Development

  • Oversee the development and provision of training to new coroner’s officers

  • Regularly appraise, motivate, and develop staff. Complete performance development reviews (PDR) and objectives of staff on time and to the required standard

  • Undertake training as directed by the MPS or the coroner

  • Maintain an up-to-date knowledge of legislation, policy, practices, and procedures to retain the necessary underpinning knowledge required to fulfil the role of coroner’s officer manager

Health, Safety, Welfare and Standards

  • Ensure that all team members are aware of health and safety requirements and of their own responsibilities towards them. Continually seek ways to improve the work environment and take effective action in response to breaches in health and safety requirements

  • Monitor and deal with staff welfare issues, including facilitating access to occupational health, counselling, and related support services, as needed

  • Take prompt action to address disciplinary matters in accordance with MPS policy

Other Duties

  • Perform on-call manager duties as required

 

  • Be prepared to work at places other than the normal workplace subject to the exigencies of duty

  • Monitor the activities undertaken by a coroner’s officer in respect of treasure

The duties and responsibilities outlined above cannot totally encompass or define all tasks, which may reasonably be required of the post holder. The outline of duties and responsibilities given may, therefore, vary from time to time without changing either the character or level of responsibility.

 

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/

Click the apply now button below and start your career at the Met. Applications will be via a detailed CV, Personal Statement and online application form. Your personal statement should outline why you are interested in the role and how your skills and experience demonstrate your suitability for the role. (NB. Please do not attach 2 copies of your CV).

Completed applications must be submitted by 29th May 2023.

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.

www.metpolicecareers.co.uk

 

Essential For The Role, e.g. qualifications, licenses, languages, training  

  • Experience of working within a pressurised environment and effective management of high workload

  • Proven managerial experience

  • Strong supervisory skills and personal responsibility

  • Excellent communication skills

  • Ability to develop and maintain collaborative working relationships with local authority managers and staff working in the Coroner's Office

  • Ability to work with a range of partners, providing a positive and professional image of the MPS

  • Managers require a high level of personal resilience, self-motivation

  • Understanding of where the Coroner’s Service sits with the MPS organisation

  • Ability to work to the Coroner's Service core business hours

  • Ability to perform on call and weekend duties when required

  • Flexible and adaptable approach to short notice work related demands

Additional Information

Candidates successful at paper sift will be invited to interview where they will be tested against the MET’s Competency and Value Framework:

  • We take ownership: Level 2

  • We support, deliver, and inspire: Level 2

  • We are collaborative: Level 2

  • Professionalism

  • Compassion

  • Integrity
Band L Coroner's Service Lead

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.

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