P/T Case Owner / Admin

Temporary P/T Case Owner / Admin

Reference no:  Devon & Cornwall BL TCL 358288

Pay Rate: £11.32 per hour PAYE

This opening assignment is for 7 months

Hybrid role

NB: Police Vacancy - only for candidates with a minimum of 3 years continuous UK address history. Please note that this vacancy is subject to a strict security vetting procedure. Candidates must be happy to be put through police vetting.

This role is to support the delivery of an effective Criminal Justice system by ensuring prosecution files are complete by inputting and maintaining police data systems (paper and electronic) and liaising with other agencies to secure the delivery of the crime file to the Crown Prosecution Service and interested parties to the required standard and timescale.

Key Responsibilities:

• Complete an administrative check on the contents of the case file received from the Officer in Charge, ensuring completeness to Force policy and CPS requirements.
• Request and gather information from a variety of sources, including partner agencies and other external agencies, so as to ensure the completeness of the case file.
• Ensure high quality prosecution files by correctly inputting, maintaining and, where appropriate, monitoring data on the police database in a timely manner and having regard to Force policy and legislative requirements and further, ensuring such information is correctly relayed to partner agencies and their database systems.
• Prioritise and manage a workload, ensuring that timelines are followed for each case, allowing time for other agencies such as CPS, sufficient time to deal with their responsibilities.
• Effectively communicate either by telephone or electronic means all tasks/information allocated to or received from the OIC or police personnel, CPS and other agencies and provide advice/guidance when required.
• Support colleagues, especially new staff, by providing instruction, guidance and advice where necessary.

“Role Requirements” – to give yourself the maximum chance of success please try and ensure your CV addresses the following essential criteria:

Skills & Experience:

1. Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role, or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.
2. A basic understanding of the criminal justice system and the relationship between the CPS, court systems, victim/witness care units and defence solicitors.
3. Demonstrable ability to use bespoke, complex databases.
4. Proven ability to write clearly, concisely and unambiguously so as to aid well structured file and data entry.
5. Demonstrable ability to communicate verbally with a diverse variety of partner agencies, police officers and staff all of whom may have particular needs.
6. Proven ability to challenge robustly others’ entrenched positions.
7. Demonstrable emotional resilience to help deal with difficult information on crime files.
8. Good problem solving, planning and organisational skills.
9. Strong IT skills using Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite).
10. ***Qualification details and any other experience/skills relevant to the job role to help support your application (and help us to help you!) – please give full details within your CV document.

NB: Please feel free to apply to us direct via [email protected] by quoting the job reference and job title exactly. SEE DETAILS AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS AD.

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If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.