Northumbria Police
Unit Supervisor
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Salary: Band 6, £30,276 – £32,613 (Please note it is Northumbria Police policy to appoint at the beginning of the band)
Location: Agile, Forth Banks, Newcastle and homeworking. (Saturday working is also included in the role on a rota basis)
Hours: Full time 37 hours per week
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 Criminal Justice Department as a Unit Supervisor.
This is a rare opportunity to carry out a diverse and interesting supervisory role providing capability across a range of criminal justice services within our Criminal Justice system.
The role requires the effective management of teams within the Criminal Justice Unit and the delivery of Criminal Justice functions and services to a high standard and in compliance with legislation and agreed procedures. It is necessary to liaise with the Crown Prosecution Service, the Courts, Defence Lawyers and other Criminal Justice Partners as well as Police Officers and their Supervision.
What you’ll do
- Supervise staff and performance to ensure that work in relation to the submission of evidential files is completed in a timely fashion and in line with the national file standard, case progression and local instructions.
- Advise and support staff and operational officers in respect of the presentation of an evidential file for each relevant stage in the Criminal Justice process or support functions, including the content of the national file standard, disclosure responsibilities, completion of accurate disclosure schedules, protection of personal data and bad character evidence.
- Liaise with Crown Prosecution Service, Area Commands and external agencies ensuring that all data is transferred/provided across a range of IT systems and be a point of contact for guidance on file transfer/document conversion to operational staff.
- Act as the first escalation point for case progression or non-compliance with a required action to complete business recovery and allow cases to progress through the Criminal Justice process.
- Provide support to Police Presenting Officers/CPS and liaise with defendants/Criminal Justice Partners to progress cases and enable decisions on progression of case to be made without further hearings.
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What you’ll bring
Essential
- Significant experience of supervising a multi- disciplined team across a range of functions in a complex environment achieving performance targets.
- A Levels/ILEX or equivalent qualification or relevant experience.
- Ability to achieve performance targets across a range of different environments with competing priorities.
- Evidence of using own initiative to manage a situation where precedents are not in place and make decisions in live time.
- Ability to communicate effectively across a range of staff and supporting partners at different levels within an organisation.
- Influence behaviour with communication style, presentation and delivery across a range of staff.
Desirable:
- Knowledge and experience of the Criminal Justice System
- Experience of delivering results in a challenging environment.
- Experience in managing competing priorities and live time events.
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.
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Just so you know
Candidates with priority status will be given precedence for this role over other applicants.
Our application form will help us understand how your work, education and life experience has prepared you for the role of a Prosecution Unit Supervisor 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
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.
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.
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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