What's involved with this role: Temporary Vetting Researcher Job Ref: Devon & Cornwall BL TCL 364180 Pay Rate: £12.92 per hour PAYE Hours per week: 37 Monday - Friday, normal working hours Role Length: This opening assignment is for 12 months City: EXETER NPPV3 Vetting Hybrid working NB: Police Vacancy - only for candidates with a minimum of 5 years continuous UK address history. Please note that this vacancy is subject to a strict security vetting procedure. Undertake analysis and evaluation of Force, National and other bespoke Police databases. Present relevant information in order to enable vetting decisions to be made by the Vetting Researcher and the Force Vetting Officer / Manager and Head of Professional Standards Department, in accordance with the Authorised Professional Practice for Vetting, the Police Code of Ethics and the Vetting Code of Practice. Key Responsibilities: Know and be able to apply the principles in the Vetting Code of Practice, APP for Vetting and the Police Code of Ethics when researching vetting applicants and associates. To make critical decisions on which information is collated for presentation to the Force Vetting Officer. Where suitable, to conduct low level financial interviews with new applicants in liaison with the Force Vetting Officer, in order to ascertain a candidate’s version of events and disclosures as declared on vetting forms, so that a fair and consistent vetting decision can be reached. Make vetting decision recommendations to the Force Vetting Officer and to make vetting decisions that include low level negative traces. To provide advice to applicants and decision makers in relation to vetting procedures whilst accounting for the need to maintain the confidentiality of all vetting information and comply with the Data Protection legislation. Carry out vetting project work as directed by the Force Vetting Officer and manage data when changes are recognised, including carrying out reciprocal vetting for other forces within the South West Vetting Collaboration of forces. Project work to include, but not limited to: TUPE transfers and management of data: Management of data for vetting renewals and recording of any issues pertaining to the completion of forms by applicants: Creation of data sets of all types of vetting levels to determine if a vetting level is still required or is not needed for the role type. Manage Recruitment Campaigns in relation to vetting. Liaison with various departments across the Force and external agencies such as SW Forensics, the MOD and other Forces, ensuring that vetting policy is adhered to and recruitment deadlines are met. Be responsible for the renewal of employees, volunteers and contractors including higher level vetting security appraisals that include MV, RV, SC, CTC, DV and NPPV levels of vetting. Interrogate, research and analyse intelligence/information, using Force, National and other bespoke information systems, including PNC, PND, NICHE/Unifi, Centurion, Pentip, UKSV, Agresso, Experian and Social Networking Sites in relation to personal data relating to applicants to the force. Undertake vetting enquiries with and on behalf of this Force to other police forces. To utilise Interpol for relevant analysis if applicable and to liaise with the National Crime Agency if criminal traces are found. Maintain contact with other vetting agencies and organisations for the purpose of intelligence gathering and provide a “one stop service” for vetting within the force and with outside agencies. Accurately record and archive relevant information in accordance with organisational policy and legislative requirements. Provide administrative support to the Force Vetting Officers Knowledge: A Clear understanding of the Data Protection Act as well as the Vetting Code of Practice/ APP in order to act with discretion and integrity as the post holder will be required to deal/handle sensitive personal information. Experience: Experience of working with internal systems such as PNC, PND, NICHE and other Force Wide systems - desirable Experience of dealing with sensitive, confidential and occasionally upsetting information - desirable Skills & Abilities: Excellent interpersonal skills and communication skills written and oral skills with the ability to interact, interview and present findings to staff at all levels. Ability to evidence sound information gathering, research and analytical skills in order to evaluate, verify and analyse information and intelligence to make decisions Must be able to demonstrate a high level of competency of using information technology systems to carry out research and for the production and presentation of data. In particular, Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook. A high level of self-motivation and innovation, to work unsupervised and proactively organise and prioritise workloads with minimal supervision and the ability to work under pressure and to deadlines Systematic meticulous and flexible approach to the varied type of work. Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for. Qualification details and any other experience/skills relevant to the role to help support your application (and help us to help you) – please give full details within your CV document. Clients are generally looking for candidates who are local to, or who can commute easily to the place of work. It will help your application if your CV states, in broad terms, where you reside – there is no need for a full address. To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would ask that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, not as a PDF. If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension, you will be working at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than umbrella pay terms. We do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity. Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days, please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles. ALD Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please