Northumbria Police
Business Services Administrator
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Salary: Band 3, £26,154 per annum
Location: Ponteland Police Station (Moving to Cobalt Business Park, North Tyneside Spring 2027)
There may be a requirement to work at various police sites across the Force area to meet operational needs.
Hours: 37 hours per week Monday – Friday 8am – 4pm
Contract: Permanent
The role
Here at Northumbria Police, we think our region is amazing! It takes a great deal of people from different backgrounds, with diverse skills and experience to serve our force area effectively, think you have what it takes to help us make a difference? This could be the perfect time for you to join us in our Business Services Department as a Business Services Administrator.
Our Business Services team keep things running smoothly for all of us here at Northumbria Police. They are a large team covering various services, including maintenance, health and safety, and supporting Front Line Policing.
What you’ll do
- Support other colleagues with general queries. This is not a purely desk-based role. The successful candidate will engage regularly with internal and external stakeholders in person, requiring strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- Using our computer system and database ensuring information is logged correctly.
- Maintain computerised and paper-based records, undertaking support and clerical functions required to internal customers.
- Open and sort all incoming postal and electronic mail via the relevant mailboxes, redirecting as appropriate, ensuring that all correspondence is dealt with promptly and efficiently.
- Handling, recording, and arranging appropriate items & information in compliance with Health & Safety guidelines.
- Undertake a range of duties including word processing, action tracking and drafting of correspondence and reports, in order to provide comprehensive support to Operational Senior Management Team.
- Providing Facility Management Services to internal and external Stakeholders
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What you’ll bring
- Experience in facilities management and operational support.
- You will be able to prioritise and organise your work without supervision.
- Able to consider and solve problems using initiative and decision-making ability.
- Strong Customer Services Skills.
- The ability to work in isolation and as part of a team
- Strong written and verbal communication skills as well as the ability to communicate at all levels.
- You will have a methodical approach to your work.
Please note that the role involves occasional manual handling tasks, including moving boxes, equipment, and other materials. Appropriate training and support will be provided.
We know it’s important for you to feel that you’re not only part of a great team, but part of a community. We welcome applications from suitably qualified people from all sections of the community, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.
Harnessing these differences creates a productive environment in which everyone feels valued, and their talents are fully utilised. Appointments are based on merit alone.
Just so you know
Our application form will help us understand how your work, education and life experience has prepared you for the role of a Business Services Administrator with #TeamNP. To help support your application research what makes us tick here at Northumbria, the role you’re applying for and the values and behaviours that contribute.
The recruitment process will consist of the initial application form followed by a face to face interview. Just so you know, you can save your application and come back to it any time prior to the closing date on the advert.
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We are proud members of the Business Disability Forum, working together to improve the lives of disabled employees. As a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to offering an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role. In cases of very high application volumes, we may prioritise those who most closely meet the criteria, applying the same fair approach for all candidates.
If you tell us that you have a disability, we can make adjustments to support you through the recruitment process (for example we can arrange extra time for tests or provide a sign language interpreter) You can get in touch with us via careers@northumbria.police.uk for any support regarding the application process. Please provide us with plenty of notice so we can ensure your visit goes smoothly.
If your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a Recruitment Vetting (RV) form, therefore you must be a resident of the UK for a minimum period of 3 years to ensure vetting checks can be successfully performed. A job offer will be dependent upon vetting clearance, medical information, and references.
Terms of appointment
This is a permanent role subject to a six-month probationary period.
If you are successful in your application, you will have a six-month probation period with us where you will be unable to apply for any other post advertised internally or externally.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
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