Quality and Performance Officer

Location

Annesley

Agile working – work style

Agile Worker

Business Area

EMSOU

Department

EMSOU-FS

Rank

N/A

Grade

I

Salary

£35,526 - £42,897

Part/Full Time

Full Time

Hours per Week

37

Additional Working Conditions

Suitable for Job Share, Flexi-time, Part Time

Type of Contract

Permanent

Vetting Level Required

MV, SC

Description

The East Midlands Special Operations Unit – Forensic Services are looking for a dynamic Quality and Performance Officers to join them on a permanent basis to support the accreditation of Forensic disciplines within the area of Lincolnshire. The successful candidates will be working within the Quality Unit, where you'll support the implementation and compliance of quality standards in line with the Home Office Forensic Science Regulators Code of Practice.

EMSOU-FS forms part of the East Midlands Special Operations Unit and unites the assets and resources of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, and Nottinghamshire forces to create a single collaborative regional unit. Though the employing force for these posts is Derbyshire, these posts are agile and cover the East Midlands region and include home working and travel expected across the 5 counties.

What you’ll be doing:

• You'll be supporting surveillance and initial assessment audits by ensuring all quality aspects of the portfolio unit are audit ready, assisting the Quality Manager and collating evidence to close out finding and completion of UKAS paperwork.
• Supporting your portfolio unit with implementing and maintaining the requirements of the FSR Code, ISO 17025, 17020 and ILAC G19
• Carrying out internal quality-based audits for any forensic unit, reporting findings and ensuring timely effective corrective action implementation to the required standard.
• Ensuring that any non-conforming work (NCR) highlighted within the portfolio units, is officially raised, investigated and appropriate action taken to the required standard by the units.
• Producing performance reports at individual, unit, force, regional and national level as required by the portfolio held; collating and presenting the data in reports and charts for distribution as required.
• Management of the QMS for your portfolio unit.

The must haves:

• Experience of working within an accredited Quality Management System.
• Have a good eye for detail and are comfortable and confident in highlighting noncompliance.
• Ability to work flexibly and adapt to constantly changing working situations and workloads.
• Can manage own workloads and experience of working to deadlines.
• Have a can-do attitude and work well with others.
• Have full driving licence and own transport.

Please be aware that due to the security checks required for this role you must have 5 years continuous residency in the UK.

Salary: £35,526 - £42,897

For part time hours the salary will be calculated on a pro-rata basis, this is based on the number of hours for the vacancy.

Vacancy closing on Wednesday 11th June 2025 at 23:55pm

Next Steps

If we feel like a place where you can belong, we'd love to learn more about you! Please refer to the job description for full role requirements and click apply to complete your application.

Who we are

Here at Derbyshire Constabulary doesn't have to mean patrolling the streets. Just as important as our uniformed officers is our strong team of professional and support staff working behind the scenes. Its these skilled people, people like you who contribute to the policing of Derbyshire.

To find out more about Derbyshire Constabulary - EMSOU and understand how you can make a difference visit our careers website and EMSOU website.

EMSOU’s commitment to inclusion, diversity, and equality

At EMSOU we celebrate difference, encourage diversity of thought, and continually review our processes to maintain fairness, equality, and transparency. We aim to attract and retain the most talented people and we actively encourage applications from under-represented groups.

Encouraging a healthy work-life balance and flexibility is central to our success and wherever possible we will consider job-share, part-time, agile working, and flexible working arrangements.

We want to create an environment where everyone can achieve their full potential, and this applies equally during our recruitment process. EMSOU are Disability Confident Committed and are proud to be part of the movement of change encouraging organisations to think differently about disability and neurodiversity in the workplace.

Those interested in applying are welcome to have an informal conversation with EMSOU HR to discuss any adjustments that may help either during the recruitment process or whilst carrying out the role to see if these can be accommodated.

For more detailed information about EMSOU, visit the website: https://www.emsou.police.uk

Document Attachment

Quality and Performance Officer JD.pdf – 215KB