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The role of the Joint Debriefing Team (JDT) is to gather intelligence and evidence for the purpose of identifying offenders and their methods to support the prosecution and/or disruption of those who perpetrate organised immigration crime. The focus is aimed at those engaged in people smuggling and human trafficking into and across the EU as well as within the UK. Information gathered is also used to assist operational and strategic planning across multiple law enforcement teams in the UK and the EU. Information gathered is also used to assist operational and strategic planning across the Home Office and other law enforcement partners.
The team has the capability to hot task high priority debriefings to take place within 24 hours of an event which may result in occasions where shifts change at short notice. Therefore, applicants will need to be flexible.
JDT intelligence debriefing activity requires the successful candidates to be flexible and dedicated in their approach with a determined focus to ensure the JDT meets Home Office Intelligence strategic objectives. This role is highly mobile, with officers expected to attend different locations to conduct debriefing activity and not solely based in an office. Officers are expected to be mobile and flexible in covering other areas when business needs demand in response to priority tasking. Officers are posted to specific locations, but the role requires very frequent travel to other debriefing locations within that county or geographical regions. This can include overnight stays away, or extended shifts as well as working at the juxtapose controls in France, or supporting operational deployments in Belgium.
Responsibilities of the JDT include:
- Responding to significant events on a regional and national level including joint operations and urgent deployments (as directed by senior managers).
- Conducting in-depth and confidential interviews completing witness statements where necessary.
- Undertaking research as necessary, accurately recording the information obtained, converting it to intelligence and disseminating it to appropriate law enforcement agencies.
- Gathering intelligence as directed by the team leader to deliver again Home Office priorities relating to Organised Immigration Crime.
- Identifying individuals causing harm to our communities who commit organised immigration crime as well as other types of criminality.
- Be aware of safeguarding, the identifiers which are used to recognise potential victims of trafficking and how the National Referral Mechanism works.
- Recognise offences, offenders and refer as appropriate.
- Managing and improving performance including through the creation and maintenance of accurate and up to date performance and activity records.
- Participating in relevant Intelligence Meetings.
Person specification
The successful candidate will be responsible for:
- Ensuring debriefs are completed in a timely manner
- Prioritising workloads in line with current tasks and identified intelligence gaps.
- Maintaining an awareness of current intelligence requirements, use initiative and sound judgement to identify opportunities and self-task to fulfil generic or specific intelligence gaps.
- Ensuring internal (including operational, casework and policy) and external partner engagement is effective, taking every opportunity to develop both new and existing relationships to improve the quality of referrals.
- Ensuring that intelligence gaps and emerging trends are quickly and accurately reported to the Intelligence Manager to inform strategic and operational threat assessments Supporting the Intelligence Manager at operational planning and other meetings.
- Keeping the Intelligence Manager informed of operational activity and performance.
- Drafting reports and summaries to the required standard.
- Establishing, developing and managing stakeholder relationships to develop intelligence gathering opportunities.
- Providing daily/weekly updates as required/directed.
- Acting on tasks from line management.
- Inputting intelligence reports on relevant systems in an agreed time frame.
- Supporting and work alongside regional intelligence teams, the Police, NCA and Criminal and Financial Investigations when required.
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate experience of either working in a law enforcement environment, (or intelligence gathering and other occupations), where in-depth interviewing was conducted to establish facts or obtain information; or where you have experience of gathering information for research or analysis.
- Previous experience of working in a law enforcement or investigative role either in law enforcement, other government department or private sector.
- Ability to develop and maintain good stakeholder relationships.
- Good organisational skills and the ability to prioritise workload.
- Ability to work alone and use initiative.
- Ability to use Microsoft tools such as Word, Excel etc.
- Current valid passport/travel document for entry to any EU country.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of immigration IT systems or Police IT Systems.
- Experience of working on high performing teams.
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Behaviours
We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:
- Communicating and Influencing
Benefits
- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
Things you need to know
Selection process details
This gives us the best possible chance of finding the right person for the job, drives up performance and improves diversity and inclusivity.
As part of the application process, you will be asked to complete:
- A CV detailing job history/skills
- A Statement of Suitability (Personal Statement) (maximum 750 words)
- Provide evidence of the lead behaviour Communicating & Influencing (250 words maximum)
Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.
The Statement of Suitability (Personal Statement) should be aligned to demonstrate your skills and experience for the role and how you meet the essential criteria as detailed in the job advertisement.
For guidance on how to construct your personal statement, you are encouraged to visit Civil Service Careers. Links Statement
For guidance on how to construct your behaviour examples, you are encouraged to visit Civil Service Careers. Links Behaviours
The sift will be held on the lead behaviour Communicating & Influencing and the Statement of Suitability. The CV will not be scored.
However, if a large number of applications are received, the sift will be conducted on the Statement of Suitability (Personal Statement) only.
The Statement of Suitability will be scored first for all candidates. Those candidates who achieve the minimum pass score for the Statement of Suitability, will progress to a further sift where the lead behaviour (Communicating & Influencing) will be scored. These candidates will therefore receive a sift score for both elements. Candidates who fail to meet the minimum pass score for the Statement of Suitability will not have their lead behaviour scored and will therefore only receive a sift score for the Statement of Suitability.
If you are successful at sift stage, you will be invited to an interview which will be a blended approach of strength-based questions and behaviour-based questions on the behaviours listed within the advert.
Strengths are the things that you do regularly, do well and that motivate you. To find out more about strength based questions click here.
Sift and Interview dates
Sift is expected to take place week commencing the 30th October 2023.
Interviews are expected to take place week commencing the 20th November 2023.
We will try to meet the dates set out in the advert, however on occasions these dates may change.
Interviews will be carried out via video. Candidates will be required to have access to:
- A laptop (personal or work) with a working webcam
- Good internet connection
- Skype for Business/Microsoft Teams
Further Information
For meaningful checks to be carried out, individuals need to have lived in the UK for a sufficient period of time to enable appropriate checks to be carried out and produce a result which provides the required level of assurance. You should normally have been resident in the United Kingdom for the last 3 years if the role requires CTC clearance, 5 years for SC clearance and 10 years for DV. A lack of UK residency in itself is not necessarily a bar to a security clearance and applicants should contact the Vacancy Holder/Recruiting Manager listed in the advert for further advice.
Note for Candidates:
Please ensure that all examples provided in your application are taken directly from your own experience and that you describe the examples in your own words. All applications are screened for plagiarism and copying of examples/answers from internet sources. If any is detected the application will be withdrawn from the process. Further action, including disciplinary action, may be considered in such cases involving internal candidates. Providing false or misleading information would be contrary to the core values of honesty and integrity expected of all Civil Servants.
If you are currently an agency member of staff working within the Home Office, a contractor or contingent worker you can only apply for roles that are advertised externally, i.e. outside the civil service. If you are eligible to apply for a role, you are required to select yourself as an external applicant and not internal when submitting your application on Civil Service jobs. This will prevent any delays in pre-employment checks should you become successful in being made an offer of employment after the Interview stage.
Are these Reserved Posts for UK Nationals only?
UK nationals who hold dual nationality are able to apply for this reserved post. If a UK passport is not being presented, then candidates will need to provide alternative evidence of UK nationality in line with the Civil Service Nationality Rules.
Annual Hours Working Allowance
Annualised Hours Working (AHW) is an attendance system where staff work an agreed number of hours for the year rather than weekly conditioned hours.
You will be required to work flexibly on any day of the week, including weekends, nights, Public Holidays and the Privilege Day, and the hours may vary each week. Attendance may also be subject to change at short notice.
The rate payable under the AHW scheme is driven by business requirements and may vary depending on location. Your initial rate will be confirmed when you have started in post and will be paid as a percentage of your basic salary. If a member of staff has agreed an annualised hours arrangement, this does not become a permanent or guaranteed right. Annualised hours working is subject to changes in operational needs and managers can adjust, cease or suspend it, for operational or performance reasons. Annualised hours agreements are reviewed at least annually. The annualised hours year runs from 1 April to 31 March. If an individual begins working on an annualised hours basis part way through the year, they will receive a part-year agreement and the Annualised Hours Allowance will be pro-rated for the remainder of the year to reflect that agreement.
If you transfer to a non-AHW post the requirement to work in accordance with the terms of the AHW policy will also end and you will move to standard Home Office Terms and Conditions.
The initial rate payable is 49%.
Age: These are shift working roles and so you must be 18 years or over.
If you are considering applying for part time hours, please contact HORCBandENational@homeoffice.gov.uk to discuss your request as not all working patterns may be accommodated.
Personal Safety Training (PST)
These roles can be physically demanding and if successful you will be required to complete and pass specialist training including Personal Safety Training (PST) which develops skills in personal safety, arrest and restraint techniques. This demands physical activity and physical contact with delegates on the course. You will be required to complete a PST health declaration and, if necessary, attend a medical examination. A formal offer will be conditional upon you being physically fit to undertake and pass the training.
Hybrid working is not an option:
The flexible working arrangement of Hybrid working (working partly in their workplace(s) and partly at home) is not available for this role due to the requirements of the role. Successful candidates will be required to attend the office/other work location as specified in the advert at all times to carry out this role.
A reserve list may be held for a period up to 12 months from which further appointment may be made.
Every day, Home Office civil servants do brilliant work to develop and deliver policies and services that affect the lives of people across the country and beyond. To do this effectively and fairly, the Home Office is committed to representing modern Britain in all its diversity, and creating a welcoming, inclusive workplace where all our people are able to bring their whole selves to work and perform at their best.
We are flexible, skilled, professional and diverse. We work to recruit and retain disabled staff and area Disability Confident Leader. We are proud to be one of the most ethnically diverse departments in the civil service. We are a Social Mobility Foundation top 75 employer.
New entrants are expected to join on the minimum of the pay band.
Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant’s details held on the IFD will be refused employment.
For further information please see the attached notes for candidates which must be read before making an application.
Existing Civil Servants should note that some of the Home Office terms and conditions of employment have changed. It is the candidates responsibility to ensure they are aware of the Terms and Conditions they will adopt should they be successful in application and should refer to the notes for candidates for further details.
Transfer Terms: Voluntary.
If you are invited to an interview you will be required to bring a range of documentation for the purposes of establishing identity and to aid any pre-employment checks.
Please see the attached list of Home Office acceptable ID documents.
Any move to the Home Office from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility at https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk
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.
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Job contact :
- Name : Home Office Resourcing Centre
- Email : HORCCampaignTeamHOIntel@homeoffice.gov.uk
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- Email : HOrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk
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