Drugs Test on Arrest Officer
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Temporary Drugs Test on Arrest Officer
Job Ref: Devon & Cornwall BL TCL 363818Pay Rate: £12.92 per hour PAYE
Hours per week: 37 Monday - Friday, normal working hours
Role Length: This opening assignment is for 6 months
City: EXETER
NPPV2 Vetting
Hybrid working
NB: Police Vacancy - only for candidates with a minimum of 5 years continuous UK address history. Please note that this vacancy is subject to a strict security vetting procedure.
The principal responsibility of the role is to manage and coordinate the ‘drugs testing on arrest’ (DTOA) process across custody suits within Devon and Cornwall police, ensuring quality and continuity in the testing process and provide performance management information, including monthly returns to the Home Office.This will include identifying and recording offences within the required assessment process, together with commencing the initial investigation, whilst promoting drug testing on arrest together with drug referral and drug treatment for detainees to staff as a crime prevention intervention.
Key Responsibilities:
Manage and coordinate the delivery of the DTOA programme providing a single point of contact and subject matter expert.Monitor and evaluate the DTOA programme establishing reasons for successes and failures, designing and implementing effective inspection methods and providing recommendations for improvement to senior management in line with research and data gathering.
Analyse and interpret data gathered through the programme and reporting this back both internally and externally to the organisation.Establish and maintain key links with programme stakeholders and partners. This includes representing the force at local, regional and national meetings.
Collate and record offences related to the DTOA programme. Making decisions on prosecution, creating prosecution files and monitoring outcomes of these.
Maintain the equipment for the programme and training staff as required on equipment and processes.
Maintain the DTOA financial budget and allocate spend where require in line with Home Office funding figures.
Qualifications:
Must hold a UK drivers’ licence, unless prevented by reason of disability.
Knowledge:
A good working knowledge of investigations and the Criminal Justice system, police procedure and deployments, police investigations and Human Rights legislation.
Experience:
Experience in making and reviewing decisions after gathering all available information, assessing risks and considering available options.
Skills & Abilities:
Excellent planning and organisation skills to be able to manage their own time effectively and achieve deadlines and requirements of partner agencies.A proven ability to communicate at all levels and the ability to influence improvements in working practices.
Must possess a high level of self-motivation and the ability to work on own initiative in developing good practice and efficiency based on organisational need, whilst understanding and recognising differing agencies’ needs, priorities and funding constraints.
Proven ability to use computer systems including Microsoft Office applications, in particular Excel spreadsheets.Ability to extract and interpret data from systems and/or databases and collating the data in a presentable format for senior leadership and external agencies.
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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 at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than 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.
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Job Ref: Devon & Cornwall BL TCL 363818
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