About the job

Job summary

The Ministry of Defence Police (MDP) provide a range of specialist policing capabilities at various sensitive defence sites across the UK.

MDP officers do not patrol the streets, they protect sites of national importance, plus everything on them and everyone in them. It is vital, sensitive work that takes our Officers across England, Scotland and Wales in a whole range of roles, from our Marine Unit to the Dog Section, CID to Special Escort Group, and from Tactical to Central or Operational Support. MDP officers even lend their specialist skills to other police forces.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

Job description

Develop and maintain a knowledge of PRG’s and apply to daily rostering practices.Load and maintain roster periods onto GRS. Observe and track to ensure they follow PRG’s and include accurate contractual hours, to the best possible outcome for business requirements, reflecting the goal directed needs of the customer. Make amendments to roster to cover short notice sickness, leave and detached duties. Taking into consideration qualification/ability to perform duties and work/life balance following PRG’s.

Produce shortfall log/spreadsheet and provide to station taking into consideration each different location requirements. Record and maintain sickness records. Enter and maintain officers’ contractual hours with adjustments such as overtime and toil. Ensure UORNS are completed.

Monitor and maintain courses/training in conjunction with chronicle taking shortfalls/minimum staffing into account. Deliver training to stations for GRS Client and GRS portal either face to face or using other communication resources. Build, maintain and adjust shift patterns in line with PRG’s and approved station requirements.

Becoming the key point of contact and developing professional relationships with personnel on station including a range of ranking officers and maintaining with regular communication.

Create personnel files for all new recruits/NEOF’s including any previous service records. Run quality control on all aspects of GRS ensuring accurateness of emails, call signs, locations, personnel system settings to stay in line with Control works and Chronicle. Monitor and maintain annual leave records.

Provide direct support and guidance to stations relating to GRS.

Person specification

The Post Holder will be required to have the following:

• A high standard of communication skills, both written and oral.
• An understanding of computerised roster management is desirable with a high aptitude in standard IT systems.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to co-ordinate multiple tasks.
• Focused, motivated, self-disciplined and a willingness to learn.
• An ability to comprehend and process large amounts of data/information.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £24,040, Ministry of Defence contributes £6,490 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.

Applicants should apply for this role online, via the website. Assessment at sift and interview will be based on meeting any defined skill/qualification requirements along with a Success Profile element assessment, as detailed in the job advert. The Success Profile elements to be assessed will be outlined within the job advert. The Civil Service Success Profile Framework is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/success-profiles  At sift, applicants will be sifted against the Civil Service Behaviours: Leadership, Working Together, Communicating and Influencing and Changing and Improving.  Candidates will be required to provide a statement of suitability(word limit 500)  At interview, applicants will be sifted against the following Civil Service Behaviours and experience.  Leadership  Communicating and Influencing  Working together  Changing and Improving.  We would generally expect Behaviour examples to follow the STAR structure and encourage candidates to use this throughout their application. As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came in to effect on 1 January 2021, the Ministry of Defence will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points based system, where a role has been deemed to be business critical. The role currently being advertised has not been assessed as business critical and is therefore NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points based system. Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn. The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.   If you need to advise us that you need additional help or reasonable adjustments for the recruitment process, please contact: DBSCivPers-Resourcingteam3@mod.gov.uk

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window). People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.