Joint Force Vetting Caseworker - Lewes, United Kingdom - Sussex Police

Sussex Police

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Lewes, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Division / Department - Professional Standards Department
Grade - Grade 8
Status - Full Time and Part Time Available
Contract Type - Permanent
Salary Grade Range - £24,552 - £26,232
Working Hours Hours per Week
Politically Restricted - No

The starting salary for this role will usually be at the bottom of the salary range and will be pro-rata if the working hours are less than full time.

The Role

The Joint Force Vetting Unit, based at HQ Lewes, covers both Surrey and Sussex force areas and is seeking 5 x full-time & 1 x part-time Vetting Caseworkers to join the team.

The role will be to undertake the vetting research function and providing advice relating to security vetting procedures, including a variety of computer system checks and enquiries.

The post-holder will often be required to offer credible advice concerning highly sensitive personal issues such as finance and relationships.

Therefore, we are looking for individuals who have are able to demonstrate tact, diplomacy and the ability to maintain the highest level of confidentiality within a secure environment.

The post-holder with be responsible for creating, updating and quality assuring information onto the force vetting database, ensuring intelligence data is submitted and inputted to a consistently high standard, reviewed and updated, logging sensitive personal data and Police and National Security Vetting Levels.

Key Responsibilities

Responsible for delivering an effective and efficient vetting research function, providing advice to applicants, sponsors, advising officers and staff of all levels on security vetting and being solely responsible in the compilation of clear, concise and accurate research and reports using a wide variety of Police Intelligence systems.

Processing vetting clearance while acknowledging the need to refer vetting failures or security risks to the Joint Force Vetting Unit Supervisors.

In accordance with the national vetting codes of practice providing security briefings to newly appointed staff. Interrogate and research information and intelligence to assess threats and risk to police sites, systems and assets.

Prepare for and conduct interviews and meetings with vetting applicants who have conditional clearance to provide security briefings and produce assessments in safeguarding the organisation from breaches of security.

Carry out system audits and open source research on vetting cases as required.

Skills & Experience

Essential:

You must be a competent and organised administrator, able to work with minimum supervision and be relied upon to use your initiative to achieve results within agreed timescales.

You will need a high level of computer literacy and be able to demonstrate a good operational knowledge of the Intranet and Microsoft Office, particularly Word, Powerpoint, Excel and Outlook.

Proven experience of obtaining and collating relevant information to identify potential security risks. With the ability to analyse large amounts of information in differing formats.

Strong attention to detail.

Able to demonstrate good problem solving skills in order to provide accurate research on data and suggest resolutions quickly and effectively.

Desirable:

Experience of relevant Police and partnership agency computer systems necessary to undertake a wide range of system checks in order to complete the vetting process eg PNC, PND, Experian, Centurion, NSVS, Niche, Open Source / Social Media and a number of additional systems.

Training will be provided.

Excellent interpersonal skills with well-developed oral communication to utilise skilled interview techniques to obtain voluntary information (conditional clearances and security vetting briefings).

Able to demonstrate good problem solving skills.

Further Information

Additional Information

This post is being advertised in parallel with Force redeployment processes. Any redeployees who are identified will be given preference. This may result in the post being withdrawn at any point during the recruitment process.

- vacancies in collaborated units are available to all officers and staff across both Forces
- vacancies in non-collaborated units are only available to officers and staff within the Force with the vacancy unless it is advertised externally.

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