Enforcement HM Inspector

Job summary

The Home Office works to build a safe, fair and prosperous UK. We achieve this through our work on counter-terrorism, policing, crime, drugs policy, immigration and passports.

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

The Immigration Compliance and Enforcement (ICE) team conducts enforcement activity across a large area of the North region of the UK. It incorporates the Reporting and Offender Manager ( ROM) functions. The ROM team focuses on progressing bail cases toward removal and performs the key role of Detentions on Reporting of those that remain illegally in the UK, promoting a compliant environment and encouraging voluntary departure. It also conducts marriage investigations in line with the established statutory procedures.

The broader ICE/ROM team conducts a wide scope of enforcement activity, including Arrest Visits, Multi Agency Joint Operations, Street and Crime Reduction operations, Police Call Outs and Detentions on Reporting ( DORs).

The jobholder will report to the ICE Lead, will work alongside other His Majesty's Inspectors (HMI’s) and will have line management responsibility for Chief Immigration Officers (CIOs). The role will commence with primary responsibility for ROM delivery across Yorkshire & Humber but as part of a team of 4 HMIs , roles and responsibilities are regularly reviewed.

Key Responsibilities

Will include but is not limited to:

• Providing visible and inspirational leadership, creating a positive team spirit, modelling positive behaviours, recognising strong performance, managing under‑performance, and supporting team development and the sharing of best practice.
• Leading the team through all types of change to support the IE Transformation Programme, introducing new ways of working, supporting teams through cultural change, and ensuring effective delivery, cost control and customer service.
• Actively participating in enforcement activity and providing senior oversight and authorisation of enforcement, detention and operational decisions, ensuring all activity is lawful, proportionate, and compliant with legislative and policy requirements.
• You will be part of the regional HMI rota, acting as Gold Commander for the implementation of agreed operational strategies.
• Driving partnership working with a range of internal and external stakeholders, including managing increased demand arising from the Sentencing Review within the ROM setting.
• Having an active and prominent role in supporting the Home Office mission to protect the vulnerable.
• Regular attendance at ICE operational tasking meetings, scrutinising tasking requests, assessing risk, and influencing decisions to ensure alignment with priorities and effective use of enforcement powers.
• Leading assurance activity, including quality reviews, performance monitoring and reporting, identifying themes, risks and improvement actions to strengthen operational effectiveness and compliance.

Working Pattern

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

Shift Working

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

The ICE and ROM team operates 365 days a year.

Training

It is a requirement of the post that arrest PPST Level 3 is already held and maintained.

Body armour is personal issue as are handcuffs and batons and staff attend annual refreshers to ensure that their skills are up to date and they are competent. Officers are also required to undergo a mandatory health assessment.

Further information on what training involves can be found on our website.

Travel

You will be based in Leeds or Sheffield with regular travel between Leeds and Sheffield and occasional travel to Hull and Middlesbrough.

Person specification

Essential Criteria

• It is a requirement of the post that arrest PPST Level 3 is already held and maintained.
• Experience of providing inspirational, inclusive and engaging leadership in a fast‑paced environment, valuing diverse views, eliminating discrimination, harassment and bullying, and actively promoting health and well‑being.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to confidently deliver clear and compelling face‑to‑face messaging, create a shared vision and set clear direction.
• Evidence of well‑judged operational decision‑making, with the ability to take timely and accountable decisions in complex and evolving situations, analysing information from multiple sources to assess risk and determine appropriate courses of action.
• Experience of providing independent oversight and assurance of operational activity, including scrutinising decisions made by others, reviewing quality and compliance, identifying risks and themes, and driving improvement to ensure lawful, fair and proportionate outcomes.
• Experience of working in a changing, fast‑paced environment, with the ability to work effectively and collaboratively under pressure to meet multiple, challenging deadlines and deliver a range of outcomes.

Desirable Criteria

• Trained/experienced in Gold Critical Incident Command of enforcement operations and/or IE ICE Pathway accredited.
• Previous Reporting and Offender Management experience.

Licences

Applicants must have a full valid UK manual driving licence.

Qualifications

It is a requirement of the post that arrest PPST Level 3 is already held and maintained. Candidates will need to produce evidence of their accreditation before proceeding to interview.

Behaviours

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

• Leadership
• Developing Self and Others
• Communicating and Influencing
• Delivering at Pace

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

• Leadership

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 approximately 30% of salary. Further information can be found on our website.
• See more of our benefits on our careers website.

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours 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 20th May 2026

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

• CV
• Personal Statement (maximum 1000 words).
• Evidence of the Behaviour – ‘Leadership’ (maximum 250 words)

Your CV should consist of your career history, qualifications and skills/experience, including any key achievements in each role. Your CV will be scored against the experience required for the role as noted within the essential criteria.

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 (CV, Personal Statement and Behaviours), you are encouraged to visit Civil Service Careers website.

2. Sift – from 22nd May 2026

The sift will be held on the CV, Personal Statement and Behaviour ‘Leadership’.

Should a high volume of applications be received, an initial sift will be conducted on the Personal Statement and CV.

Candidates who pass the initial sift will then be progressed to a full sift that will consist of all the remaining elements submitted: Lead Behaviour – ‘Leadership’.Candidates who fail to meet the minimum pass score for the initial sift will not have their remaining submitted elements scored and will only receive a sift score for that assessed at the initial sift.

3. Interview - from 11th June 2026

If you are successful at sift stage, you will be invited to an interview that will be Behaviours (as listed in the job advert) based questions. All behaviours listed in the selection process will be scored at the interview.

Interviews to be conducted face-to-face in Sheffield (Vulcan House) or Leeds (Waterside Court).

Travel expenses will not be reimbursed.

For guidance and information on what to expect and how to prepare for an interview, you are encouraged to visit Civil Service Careers.

Problems during the application process

If you experience problems accessing this advert, or you think you’ve made a mistake on an initial application, please contact hocandidates.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk, including the vacancy reference, at least two working days before the vacancy closes. Further information can be found on our website.

Do not create or attempt to submit another application, online test or use a different Civil Service Jobs account to proceed as this would be in violation of the candidate declaration.

Location Preferences

You can select up to twolocations in order of preference. Please ensure that these are locations you are prepared to travel to. If you are offered a role at one of your preferred location(s) and you decline, your application will be withdrawn.

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.

Appearance

This is a uniformed post and as such requires the highest standards. Further information on this can be found on our website.

Standards

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

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.

Integrity Check

As well as successfully obtaining UK Security Vetting clearance, you will also be subject to an additional Integrity Check, as part of the pre-employment process, to determine your suitability to work for Border Force or Immigration Enforcement. For further information on what this involves, please visit our website.

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.

Medical

Successful candidates will be expected to have a medical.

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 theCivil 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 Civil Service Recruitment Principles. and you wish to make a complaint, then contact the Government Recruitment Service via HOrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk. If you are not satisfied with the response that you receive, then you can contact the Civil Service Commission.

Attachments

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