Cambridgeshire Constabulary
Resource Officer
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Cambridgeshire Constabulary Police Staff Permanent Full Time Operational Support Headquarters, Huntingdon, Cambs Scale 5 £30,333 37
About Cambridgeshire Constabulary
The constabulary employs over 1750 officers, over 950 staff members and 39 PCSO's to cover a resident population of over 900,000. Our vision is to ‘Create a Safer Cambridgeshire’. We pride ourselves in delivering a service with integrity, sensitivity and respect.
We are now hiring for a Resource Officer to actively support an efficient and accurate resource model for the Constabulary ensuring that there are sufficient resources with the right skills, in the right place at the right time, whilst ensuring information is accurate, up to date and stored appropriately.
It is important to us that we represent our local communities within Cambridgeshire. Everyone at Cambridgeshire Constabulary takes personal responsibility to help create an inclusive workplace, where police officers and staff respect one another, feel valued for their differences and can be themselves. We are committed to providing workplace adjustments, wherever needed so everyone feels welcome and can flourish.
Why join Cambridgeshire Constabulary?
By joining us as a Resource Officer you will receive a vast range of opportunities and benefits. Included benefits:
- Starting pay of £30,333 rising with service up to £32,613
- 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday, flexi-working between 0800-2000. Flexible working requests can be made, including, compressed hours, flexible shifts and job sharing.
- A hybrid role with office and home working.
- Annual leave allowance of 26 days, rising with length of service to 30 days after 10 years’ service.
- Local government pension scheme
- Opportunities for development and further study
- A great Employee Assistance Programme providing free and confidential counselling, financial and legal advice
- Long Service Awards
- Blue Light Card
- Force Lottery – purchase shares and win prizes
- Cycle 2 Work and Car Lease Schemes
- Employee Welfare Fund
- Access to Unison
- And more!
What does the Resource Officer role involve?
Responsibilities
You will be working within a team of 17 people, a mix of Police Staff and Police Officers. We are an essential role ensuring daily police resource requirements are met, as well as supporting pre-planned and dynamic operations. Your main day to day responsibilities will be:
- Take any necessary action to compensate for abstractions arising from annual leave, sickness, court warnings, training and other planned or spontaneous loss. Highlight and resolve any staffing issues.
- Deal with reports produced by the system ensuring that reports showing resources below optimum staffing levels are addressed or that the risk is documented and recorded.
- Use the resource management system applying duty rosters following staff moves and Police Personnel updates. This accountability will include general problem solving of issues.
- Co-ordinate the deployment of staff in the most cost-effective way for specific duties/operations such as PSU, searches, training. This will include cost-effective staffing on Public Holidays in a fair way, implementing duty changes where necessary.
- Assist in assessing the impact of abstractions for regular planned training such as officer safety training, PSU, etc and work with Organisational Learning to ensure that training abstractions have minimum impact on operational requirements. Carry out Time Bank audits in accordance with force policy. Re-allocate excess RDIL or TOIL ensuring optimum staffing levels are maintained.
- Provide management information from records kept, as and when required. Provide support and assistance to the users for the system, including support to the admin assistants. Act as a point of contact for admin assistants so as to ensure policy and procedure are followed consistently.
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Are you the right person for the Resource Officer position?
It Is Important To Us That We Hire Someone With The Right Values And Attitude That Align With Ours. Whether Officer Or Staff, We Are Serving The Public, And The Policing Competency And Values Framework Underpins Everything We Do. We Are Also Looking For You To
- Be proactive and use your initiative
- Take a solution-focused approach to any query or task
- Have experience of using IT systems as a work planning tool
- Have a high level of interpersonal skills with the ability to be assertive and tactful
- Have strong organisational skills, with the ability to prioritise work with minimum supervision
- Be able to work as a positive and effective team member
- Be able to work under pressure to achieve tight deadlines, sometimes at short notice
- Be able to work with a high degree of accuracy and attention without close supervision
If you think this could be the role for you, we encourage you to apply today. If you have any queries, you can contact the recruitment team via recruitment@bch.police.uk
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Cambridgeshire Constabulary celebrates diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone is valued and respected. We actively encourage applications from underrepresented or minority groups.
Cambridgeshire Constabulary is a Disability Confident Employer. Should you require any reasonable adjustments for your application process, please contact the HR on 01438 757777. We also recognise the ‘offer an interview’ scheme; to candidates who meet the minimum requirement, regardless of any points system or portfolio gathering; and this is throughout promotion boards and the interview process. Where possible, we will also consider flexible working requests.
If you would like to discuss this opportunity with a member of the team, please email rmu@cambs.police.uk, with your name, address and telephone number along with the areas in which you wish to discuss and a member of the team will get back to you.
Vetting Process
Please note that, as part of the vetting process, the BCH Vetting Unit may need to contact your current line manager for a Supervisor Appraisal. This requirement aligns with the 2025 National Guidelines for Vetting (APP 6.5.18).
Examples Of When This May Apply Include
- Transferring to another force
- Renewing vetting clearance
- Moving into a role requiring MV clearance (even if you currently hold MV clearance)
- Moving into or working in a role involving close contact with vulnerable individuals
If any of the above apply to you, please expect your line manager to be contacted when you submit your vetting application.
Redeployment and Redundancy
This vacancy is open to employees at risk of redundancy and will remain available to redeployees until a final offer has been agreed and accepted. Redeployees at risk of redundancy will take priority over all other applicants at any stage of the recruitment process. If successful, redeployees will remain on their home force’s terms and conditions.
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Commitment to Inclusion
As a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone feels respected, valued, and able to be themselves. We provide workplace adjustments wherever needed so that all colleagues can thrive. If you have a disability and meet the minimum criteria for the role, you will be guaranteed an interview under the Offer an Interview Scheme.
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