Acting - Response Sergeant - ICR

Location: Maidenhead

Full Time (All roles are available for flexible working including job sharing and part-time unless there are legitimate operational / business reasons why this cannot be accommodated)

Expected Start Date: November 2024 (Please note that start dates will be subject to impact assessment with T&R)

Expected End Date: January 2025 (Please note that end dates are subject to change and, depending on the needs of the department, may be extended or reduced)

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CANDIDATES MUST BE AVAILABLE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FROM THEIR CURRENT ROLE PRIOR TO APPLYING

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In this role you will provide daily supervision, leadership, guidance and support to Constables. You will Co-ordinate, monitor and respond to frontline policing activity and investigations.

Principle Responsibilities:

• Oversee and support investigations through application of Op Endeavour principles, ensuring quality supervision through regular reviews of investigations and files, ensuring crime data integrity and Victim’s Codes of Practice are complied with, thus enabling prompt and effective prosecutions and victim-focused outcomes.
• Develop all staff, through regular reviews and one-to-ones, supporting their own personal professional development and that of their team, agreeing appropriate activities and plans to enable potential progression and acquisition of professional skills, through inclusion and diversity.
  Implement and support appropriate interventions when required.
• Support interoperability between teams, departments and the wider organisation. Develop meaningful and long-term partnerships to increase the capability of the department and LCU.
• Provide proactive wellbeing and welfare support for those on the team, ensuring appropriate care is available and accessible to all.
• Manage threat, risk and harm, identify vulnerabilities and ensure all safeguarding opportunities are met and progressed.
• Provision of visible and effective leadership, assuming the role of Bronze Command at serious /major incidents, Identify potential / actual critical incidents, take proactive service recovery steps to restore the confidence in the force as well as securing and preserving evidence for the investigation.
• Monitor and manage the performance of the team and individuals, promoting professional standards of behaviour and utilising training, welfare support and discipline where necessary to effect change and motivate our staff.

Essential Training Prior to Appointment:

• Core Leadership program

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For more information about the role, please contact Inspector Andy Hewitt

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Application Method:

Click 'apply' at the bottom of the screen and complete the application form. Applications must include the following:

• Why Me Why Now Letter (WMWN) detailing why you believe you are the right candidate with evidence that aligns with the CVF and how this opportunity fits in with your development plan. Your WMWN letter should adhere to the following formats:
  
  • Typed in Arial Font, Size 12
  • No More than 2 pages of A4
  • With the margins unmodified from the standard 2.54cm, Line Spacing set to 1.0 and paragraphs aligned to 'Justify'
• Most recently completed PDR (2023/24)
• Completed Line Managers Endorsement Form:
  • All applicants must complete the Line Manager Endorsement Form. The form requires a Chief Inspector or Superintendent’s signature, regardless of whether they are on the Shortlisting Panel. Please be aware that verbal endorsement will not be accepted.
  • If you are unable to obtain one or both endorsements in time for the closing date, please submit your partially complete form along with a statement in the relevant box stating that you have requested endorsement and are awaiting a response. Late endorsements should be emailed to poirecruitmentfc@thamesvalley.police.uk
    • Please note that applications without a completed endorsement form will be graded, but not progressed until the endorsements have been received. 

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Suitably endorsed and eligible applications must be completed by Midnight Thursday 19th September. Please do not send applications directly to the line manager. All applications must be submitted online.