Salary: Band 6, £27,735 – £29,874 Location: Ponteland Police Station Hours/Contract: 37 hours per week, permanent. You will be working on a three week shift pattern covering the hours of 7am – 5pm. You will be required to work one weekend in three where a weekend working allowance is payable. 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 Force Coordination and Operations Department as an FCC Planner. You will support the organisation to meet demand by fulfilling resourcing requirement for both spontaneous and planned incidents, operations and events. Planners will work within and support the effective management of operational incident rooms. Planners will coordinate centrally any overtime, abstractions and annual leave ensuring that all computer records are updated and accurately reflect operational resourcing. You will be working on a three week shift pattern covering the hours of 7am – 5pm. You will be required to work one weekend in three where a weekend working allowance is payable. What you’ll do Facilitate the daily force pacesetting meeting collating and presenting force resourcing information and making an accurate record of information and actions discussed in the meeting and circulate to senior leaders. Provide detailed resourcing information and advice to commanders for spontaneous and pre-planned events and operations to ensure the effective deployment of skilled resources. Prepare resourcing plans for spontaneous, pre-planned and mutual aid events taking into account Force resource levels and capability, local events and skills required. Participate in exercises and live operations as required, in order to contribute to the effective delivery of resourcing plans. Prepare resourcing plans to ensure minimum resource levels are maintained in critical roles arranging backfill with appropriate skilled officers where required. What you’ll bring GCSE or equivalent Maths and English Grade A-C. Experience in the use of Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word. Ability to prioritise workloads in order of importance, dealing with both spontaneous and planned workloads and to work under pressure to meet deadlines. Demonstrate experience of recording information and maintaining accurate records. Motivated to manage workloads and work at times without direct supervision. 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 FCC Planner 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 careersnorthumbria.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 and medical information. 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 6month 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.