Criminal & Financial Investigator

Home Office

Apply before 11:55 pm on Friday 29th November 2024

Details

Reference number

378071

Salary

£30,000 - £31,500

Plus allowance of approximately 35%.

Job grade

Executive Officer

Contract type

Permanent

Business area

HO - Immigration Enforcement - Criminal & Financial Investigation

Type of role

Investigation

Working pattern

Full-time, Shift working

Location

Liverpool, Manchester

About the job

Job summary

Immigration Enforcement is responsible for enforcing the government’s immigration laws, tackling illegal migration, removing foreign national offenders and immigration offenders from the UK. It also aims to disrupt the organised criminal groups that exploit the vulnerable for their personal gain. Learn more on our careers pages.

Job description

This is an exciting opportunity for the right candidate to develop and embed a wide range people and engagement skills within a high performing team, delivering what is required to continue to make the team a great place to work and to support staff and senior managers in delivering the key objectives of tracing and locating fugitives and other wanted persons, who have absconded during criminal investigations. The team also has the operational responsibility for the physical extradition of individuals back to the UK, where they have been located overseas.

Due to nature of Fugitive Active Search Team being unpredictable in terms of frequency of travel, it is essential that the successful applicants are committed, flexible and appreciate that there is every likelihood to be required to deploy overnight and at weekends when on call. The role necessitates occasional short-notice international travel- a valid passport is required.

Key Responsibilities

Maintaining a definitive list of CFI fugitives and ensuring that they are correctly circulated on PNC, HO Systems and via Interpol. As part of this post, the successful applicant will attend the National Circulations Bureau, NCA, Warrington on a weekly basis
Prioritising and managing the investigation into each fugitive’s whereabouts and manage the CFI fugitive list
Having a national overview to ensure warrants are properly managed and worded and that teams have all available support to initially try and locate their fugitives
Adopting the investigations into fugitives referred by CFI and providing additional locate and trace support to nationally agreed high-harm subjects
Planning, managing and co-ordinating each import extradition for CFI, whilst managing the import extraditions of subjects wanted in connection with CFI investigations
Liaising with NCA and partners to ensure notified extraditions are arranged, managed, and completed within deadlines set by the host country
Ensuring an appropriately trained extradition team are available at short notice and ensuring risk assessment and management of the extradition take place
Booking travel and organising a ground team to transport extradited subject to custody

Working Pattern

Due to the business requirements of this role, it is only available on a full-time basis.

Training

You will receive full training and support to do the job. Training takes place initially in the classroom and then continues on the job with a mentor who supports you until you are fully confident in the role. Even then you are never alone; you work as part of a team where there is always someone around for advice and support. Further information on what the training involves can be found on our website.

Travel

The team has a national remit, with staff based in London, Belfast, Glasgow, Sheffield, and East Midlands. Regular travel between these locations would be expected.

Person specification

Essential criteria

Background in organised crime investigations and legislation
Application awareness of the specialist functions associated with complex crime investigation such as use of Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA), surveillance, exploitation of digital devices, operational planning, and public protection
Proficient in Microsoft Teams and Microsoft products such as Outlook, Word, Excel etc.
Excellent written and oral communication skills as well as strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to positively influence stakeholders at senior and junior levels
Managing resources and using analytical skills to make informed decisions
PIP level 1 accreditation - please see Qualifications

Desirable criteria

Background in immigration investigations and legislation

Licences

Due to the nature of the work and/or the geographical area, driving is a key requirement for this role. Applicants must have a full valid UK manual/automatic driving licence.

Qualifications

Professionalising Investigation Programme (PIP) is a four-level accreditation programme under the auspices of the National Police Chiefs Council and the College of Policing. A professional accreditation of Professionalising Investigation Programme (PIP) Level 1 is mandatory. For further information please see the attached documents.

This campaign requires candidates to submit a completed document in order for the Home Office to verify their accreditation to the Job Contact within the Apply and further information section at the bottom of the advert.

Please note: An initial check prior to sift will be made on candidates holding PIP1 accreditation. Candidates who are confirmed as not being accredited will automatically have their application rejected.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

Delivering at Pace
Communicating and Influencing
Making Effective Decisions
Seeing the Big Picture

We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:

Delivering at Pace

Benefits

In addition to your salary, a career with the Home Office offers a range of benefits, including:

A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%.
In-year reward scheme for one-off or sustained exceptional personal or team achievements.
25 days annual leave on appointment, rising with service to 30 days.
Eight days of public holidays, plus one additional privilege day.
This role currently attracts Annualised Hours Allowance (AHA) of 35% of salary. Further information can be found on our website.
Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working. This is a non-contractual arrangement where all employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in an office.

See more of our benefits on our careers website.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.

This gives us the best possible chance of finding the right person for the job, drives up performance and improves diversity and inclusivity.

We will endeavour to conduct the selection process in line with the dates indicated below, but cannot guarantee that these will not, where necessary, be revised.

1. Application – by 29th November 2024

As part of the application process, you will be asked to complete:

Personal Statement (maximum 750 words).
Evidence of the Behaviour Delivering at Pace (maximum of 250 words per Behaviour).

The Personal Statement should be aligned to and demonstrate how you meet the skills and experience set out in the essential criteria, detailed in the job description.

For guidance and information on how to construct your application (Personal Statement and Behaviours), you are encouraged to visit Civil Service Careers website.

2. Sift – week commencing 2nd December 2024

The sift will be held on the Personal Statement and Behaviour Delivering at Pace.

The Personal Statement will be scored for all candidates. Those candidates who achieve the minimum pass score for the Personal Statement will progress to a further sift where the Behaviour Delivering at Pace will be scored. These candidates will receive a sift score for both elements. Candidates who fail to meet the minimum pass score for the Personal Statement will not have their Behaviour(s) scored and will only receive a sift score for the Personal Statement.

3. Interview – week commencing 6th January 2025

If you are successful at sift stage, you will be invited to an interview that will consist of Behaviours (as listed in the job advert) and Strength based questions.

The interview will take place via Microsoft Teams.

Location Preferences

You will only be able to select a single location preference so please ensure this is a location that you are prepared to travel to. If you are offered a role at your preferred location and you decline, your application will be withdrawn.

Successful candidates will need to be able to attend for all shifts including early starts, late night finishes, and overnight shifts. These shifts may be outside of public transport operating hours.

Reserve List

A reserve list may be held for a period of up to 12 months from which further appointments may be made. There is no guarantee that being held on a reserve list will lead to a job offer. Further information can be found on our website.

Reserve lists will be held for each location and profession. Candidates will be appointed in merit order by location and profession.

Standards

All Civil Servants are expected to comply with the Civil Service Code, and its core values of integrity, honesty, objectivity and impartiality.

Additional Security Checks

As well as successfully obtaining UK Security Vetting clearance, candidates will be subject to a range of additional checks. The range of checks carried out will depend on whether you are a current Home Office employee, existing civil servant or an external new entrant as well as the role requirements. Further details are included in the Notes to Candidates.

Further information

In order to process applications without delay, we will be sending a Criminal Record Check to Disclosure and Barring Service on your behalf. However, we recognise in exceptional circumstances some candidates will want to send their completed forms direct.

If you will be doing this, please advise Government Recruitment Service of your intention by emailing Pre-EmploymentChecks.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk stating the job reference number in the subject heading

If you are invited to an interview, you will be required to bring documentation for the purposes of establishing your identity.

You will need to meet the nationality requirements for this role and obtain the necessary security clearance to take it up.

For meaningful security checks to be carried out, individuals need to have lived in the UK for a sufficient period of time. Learn more on our website. Security Checks - Home Office Careers

For further information on National Security Vetting please visit the following page https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/demystifying-vetting

Visa sponsorship

We do not sponsor individuals via Skilled Worker Sponsorship / Tier 2 (General) work visas.

Reasonable Adjustments

If a person with disabilities is at a substantial disadvantage compared to a non-disabled person, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes.

If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should:

Contact Government Recruitment Service via HOrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs

Complete the “Assistance Required” section in the “Additional Requirements” page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at interview, or if you're deaf, a language service professional

If you are experiencing accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the ‘Contact point for applicants’ section.

Feedback

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

Open to UK nationals only.

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

Name : Home Office Resourcing Centre
Email : HORCCampaignTeamIE@homeoffice.gov.uk

Recruitment team

Email : HOrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk

Further information

If you feel that your application has not been treated in accordance with the recruitment
principles, and wish to make a complaint, then you should contact in the first instance
HORecruitment.GRS@cabinetoffice.gov.uk. If you are not satisfied with the response that you receive, then you can contact the Civil Service Commission.