Avon and Somerset Police
Forensic Support Officer - SW Forensics
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Job Description
Are you a proactive and self-motivated individual looking for a new opportunity where you can utilise and develop your customer service and administrative skills?
We are looking for a skilled administrator to join our Forensic Identification Unit as a Forensic Support Officer on a part-time basis.
This is a busy and varied role where you will be required to multitask and work as part of a small team, providing administrative and customer service support to a range of stakeholders both internal and external to our organisation.
In This Role Your Main Responsibilities Will Include
- Acting as a point of contact for all queries that come into the department, ensuring professional customer service standards are maintained.
- Undertaking a range of administrative duties including the booking of transport and accommodation, filing, scanning, and responding to queries using email, phone, and face-to-face communication methods.
- Managing the receipt, distribution, and dispatch of forensic exhibits, checking courier datasheets against information on evidential packages.
- Maintaining departmental records and document collections, undertaking weeding and archiving of custody samples.
- Checking stock levels, processing, and issuing equipment orders.
- Ensuring all duties undertaken are completed in compliance with department policies and procedures.
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Skills And Experience Required
- Experience of working in an administrative role and following office procedures.
- Skilled computer user familiar with using Microsoft packages, etc.
- Experience of creating and maintaining both electronic and manual records.
- Ability to retrieve and interpret information.
- Excellent verbal and written communication and customer service skills.
- Ability to work on your own initiative and as part of a team.
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Additional Information
- This is a part-time role and will be 29.6 hours per week, which is 4 days. Working days can be agreed with the successful candidate.
- Interviews are likely to be held the week commencing 31st August 2026 after the bank holiday.
- If you are successful but not the highest scoring applicant, you will be placed on a 6-month bank for any future vacancies that could arise.
- To be eligible to apply for this role, you must have a 5-year ‘checkable history’ in the UK – ideally, this means that you would have been resident in the UK for the last 3 years.
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