Communications Officer (Secondment/Fixed Term Contract)
Secondment/Fixed Term Contract one until 31 March 2025
Internal comms and employee engagement within our police force has never been more critical to the needs of all our people. There is significant change underway together with daily challenges of complex policing issues. The team’s expertise has never been in greater demand with the importance of clear, targeted and timely communications, and employee wellbeing well supported.
We have a 12 month opportunity as a Communications Officer in the Employee Engagement team in Corporate Communications. This is to backfill a secondment.
In this role, you will work with officers and staff to understand their requirements and support or enable effective comms and engagement via force channels or advice on activity they can undertake directly. It’s a fast paced environment as we respond to changing guidance, internal initiatives, external influences on policing and incident management. You will be responsible for the timely and effective day to day delivery and enablement of employee engagement and communications. As well as supporting our business as usual activity, you will take the lead on planning and delivering short term communications projects, providing specialist advice where required. This may include working with other forces’ communications teams where the projects are collaborative.
The successful candidate will have excellent written communication and interpersonal skills as well as proven skills in working on your own initiative and of developing and delivering effective advice, guidance and activity to meet audience needs and force objectives.
If you are a permanent member of staff applying for this role, please note it will be offered on a secondment basis. Important: All secondments are assumed supported and that your line manager and Head of Department/Commander or Deputy are aware of your intention to apply. If the secondment is not supported then a strong business rationale must be sent to RecruitmentPoliceStaff@thamesvalley.police.uk quoting the reference number for the role.
Please note: Shift allowance, on-call or other job related allowances from the previous role will not be protected unless they are attached to the new role for the duration of the secondment.
Please be aware that if this role is advertised as ‘internal’ you will only be able to access it through the link at the top of the page, it will not appear on the external job site. Therefore if you wish to complete the form at home you will need to copy the link. Please do not forward this link to external candidates. If you have any queries please contact the Recruitment Team at RecruitmentPoliceStaff@thamesvalley.police.uk quoting reference 21296. We will endeavour to respond to your query as quickly as possible.
If you are an ‘at risk’ member of staff, please apply directly to the At Risk Recruitment Mailbox with your REI form and do not complete the online application.
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The closing date for enquiries and receipt of completed applications is Sunday 31 March 2024
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Vetting. All posts require a level of Police Vetting as per the National Vetting Code of Practice. The residency requirement is necessary to enable all applicants to be checked in an equitable manner. Thames Valley Police will allow applicants to apply who do not necessarily reach the criteria as long as they have proven UK residency and supporting evidence where necessary. Applications will be considered on a case by case basis.
This opportunity is closed to applications.