Salary: Band 9, £41,133 – £47,712
Location: Bedlington Police Station
Hours/Contract: 37 hours per week, permanent
The role
Here at Northumbria Police, we think our region is amazing! It takes a great deal of people from different backgrounds, with diverse skills and experience to serve our force area effectively, think you have what it takes to help us make a difference? This could be the perfect time for you to join us in our Information Management Department as a Data Protection and Disclosure Adviser.
As a Data Protection and Disclosure Adviser, you will manage the disclosure of information to ensure the Force complies with Data Protection and Freedom of Information legislation. You will provide advice and guidance to all Northumbria Police staff regarding the lawful disclosure of information and key aspects of data sharing with our key partners.
Additionally, you will provide leadership and management across various areas of business, including Data Protection, Freedom of Information, and Family Proceedings.
What you’ll do
Fulfil the legal requirements associated with the Data Protection Act 2018, ensuring information and systems comply with Data Protection principles and relevant legislation (Data Protection Act 2018, GDPR, Freedom of information Act).
Manage, advise and participate in the disclosure of information, assessing and validating information in order to ensure compliance and maintain the integrity of force information.
Manage and be responsible for recruitment and discipline ensuring that staff have the knowledge, skills and experience to achieve required standards and performance as well as promoting the support and development of staff through appraisal, training and development programmes.
Management responsibility relating to the implementation and management of Information Sharing Agreements (ISAs), providing advice and guidance to internal and external stakeholders, ensuring an accurate and accessible ISA register is maintained.
Manage the processes and workload associated with applications for disclosure in respect of family proceedings and the Children’s Act to ensure that obligations relating to the relevant legislation, court orders and safeguarding implications are met.
What you’ll bring
- Extensive knowledge of Data Protection Act 2018, GDPR and Freedom of Information Act.
- Knowledge of processing regimes in accordance with law enforcement, specifically processing complex and special category data in accordance with Part 3 of the Data Protection Act 2018.
- Understanding of the Human Rights Act and how it applies to data protection and disclosure
- Ability to interpret legislation and introduce changes to working practices
- Experience of working successfully with Partner Agencies
- Experience of working with a range of national and local IT systems
- Professional attitude to work and able to communicate in a confident manner with people of all levels within and outside of the force
We know it’s important for you to feel that you’re not only part of a great team, but part of a community. We welcome applications from suitably qualified people from all sections of the community, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.
Harnessing these differences creates a productive environment in which everyone feels valued, and their talents are fully utilised. Appointments are based on merit alone.
Just so you know
Our application form will help us understand how your work, education and life experience has prepared you for the role of a Data Protection and Disclosure Adviser with #TeamNP. To help support your application research what makes us tick here at Northumbria, the role you’re applying for and the values and behaviours that contribute.
The recruitment process will consist of the initial application form followed by a face to face interview. Just so you know, you can save your application and come back to it any time prior to the closing date on the advert.
We are proud members of the Business Disability Forum, with whom we collaborate with to improve the lives of disabled employees. We are also a Disability Confident Employer, therefore if you demonstrate that you meet the minimum criteria for this role as stated in the advert, we will progress your application and offer you an interview.
If you tell us that you have a disability, we can make adjustments to support you through the recruitment process (for example we can arrange extra time for tests or provide a sign language interpreter) You can get in touch with us via careers@northumbria.police.uk for any support regarding the application process. Please provide us with plenty of notice so we can ensure your visit goes smoothly.
If your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a Management Vetting (MV) form, therefore you must be a resident of the UK for a minimum period of 5 years to ensure vetting checks can be successfully performed. A job offer will be dependent upon vetting clearance, medical information, and references.
Terms of appointment
This is a permanent role subject to a six-month probationary period.
If you are successful in your application, you will have a six-month probation period with us where you will be unable to apply for any other post advertised internally or externally.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme
Disability Confident
About Disability Confident
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident .