Higher Analyst - HC620402

Location: Portsmouth, Southampton or Basingstoke (open to discussions on location as well as some Hybrid working)

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time, 37 hours per week

Salary: Scale PO1 - £40,893 to £43,920 per annum

Closing Date: Sunday 13th April at 23:59 hours

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Do you want to make a difference in keeping Hampshire and the Isle of Wight safe?

Our Higher Analysts are critical in helping Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary with their purpose of making ‘You, Your Family, and Our Communities Safer’. In this role, you will support departments across the force by conducting proactive and reactive analysis on the most serious of crimes.

You will be among our most experienced Analysts, and you will support our Major Crime, CAIT and SOCU teams (among others), on a variety of crimes including murder, serious and organised crime, and child abuse, as well as being called out to provide analysis on crimes in action, including kidnaps and manhunts.

This is an exciting and rewarding role where you will really feel you are making a difference when you see the results from your analysis, and the investigations you are a part of.

About the Role

In this role, you will use your existing knowledge and apply analytical techniques to support decision making on a range of complex operational challenges, and be directly involved in critical incidents and serious criminal investigations.

Your role on any day may include:

1. Gathering and analysing data during the early stages of an investigation, through to creating exhibits and giving evidence in court.
2. Being a key member of an operational team, using information from a variety of sources, including communications data, to identify intelligence gaps and test hypotheses.
3. Developing inferences from your analysis, and then making recommendations to officers to solve problems and further investigations.
4. Providing structured mentorship, advice and guidance across the wider Operational Analysis team to improve standards, products and knowledge.
5. Being part of an out of hours call out rota for fast time crime in action operations.

There will also be opportunities to attend conferences, training and awareness sessions to continue your own professional development.

For further details about this role, please click for the full Role Profile.

About You

Are you experienced in planning and conducting analysis in a law enforcement environment?

Do you thrive in a fast paced and pressurised environment?

Are you innovative and creative when approaching a problem?

Do you have effective and accurate report writing and presentation skills, and experience delivering information to all levels of an organisation?

Do you have good communication skills and can you debate complex issues and influence colleagues?

Are you educated to QCF Level 6 OR have relevant experience that would equate to this level?

If the above sounds like you, then we would love to hear from you!

How to Apply

If this sounds like the role for you, please follow the online application link to apply at the top or bottom of this advert. You will be asked to enter personal details and complete our screening questions (this is standard across all our applications).

In addition, you will be asked to provide evidence against the following topics. These areas form part of our police competency and values framework:

1. We Are Emotionally Aware Level 1
2. We Take Ownership Level 2
3. We Analyse Critically Level 2

Please do take the time to follow the links to each of the above areas, to learn more about what we are looking for, and please then provide your answers on your application form, using specific examples to evidence how you have demonstrated the competency.

For any assistance in completing our application form, please do check our Candidate guidance for completing an application form.

About Us

For further information about this role, please contact Rosie Print on rosie.print@hampshire.police.uk or if you have any queries about the Recruitment process, please contact the Police Recruitment Team on police.recruitment@hampshire.police.uk or on 02380 451611.

As an employer, Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary also offers a wide range of benefits which include:

• An attractive contributory pension scheme
• Cycle to Work schemes
• Access to Hampshire Police Leisure and Sport (providing a range of family and sporting activities)
• Gym facilities at a number of our buildings
• Access to retail and hospitality benefits via the Blue Light Card.

Please note that the email address you supply when submitting an application will be used for contact throughout the full lifecycle of that vacancy. You will not be able to amend your contact details. You should therefore ensure that you choose an appropriately accessible email address, being mindful that the process may take several months for some roles.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary is an inclusive employer and strives to have a workforce representative of the communities we police and serve. We recognise that we are not fully representative and are working to address this imbalance through a variety of initiatives.

Hampshire & Isle of Wight Constabulary is an equal opportunities employer that positively promotes flexible working, enabling officers and staff to achieve a healthy work-life balance whilst meeting operational requirements of the constabulary. We actively encourage applications to be made on a full time, part time or flexible working basis.

The Equality Act 2010 allows us to promote equality within Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary by adopting Positive Action to support people from under-represented groups. Our aim is to recruit talented people with a diverse range of skills and experience and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our Positive Action team are available to provide support through the application and assessment process by contacting: positive.action@hampshire.pnn.police.uk

The Disability Confident campaign aims to remove barriers, increase understanding and ensure that people have opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations. We will accommodate requests for reasonable adjustments where possible throughout our recruitment and promotions processes and encourage anyone requiring reasonable adjustments to disclose this at the earliest opportunity.

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