Vacancy Information
This role is within a unit where Surrey Police and Sussex Police work in collaboration, whilst continuing to be two separate legal entities/employers with different terms and conditions.
Both Surrey Police staff and Sussex Police staff are employed in this unit on their own force terms and conditions.
Successful candidates may be appointed on the terms and conditions of employment of either Surrey Police or Sussex Police, depending on organisational requirements. A discussion will be held with the successful candidate to confirm the details of location, salary, allowance and hours.
Division / Department - Digital Data & Technology
Status - Part Time
Contract Type - Permanent
Grade - Surrey Police Grade H / Sussex Police Grade 11
Salary Grade Range - Surrey Police £35,028 - £41,464 / Sussex Police £35,223 - £38,856
Politically Restricted -
Unsocial Hours Allowance -
Location - Multiple Locations
The starting salary for this role will usually be at the bottom of the salary range and will be pro-rata if the working hours are less than full time.
The Role
This is a collaborative role across Surrey and Sussex Police.
You will be attending both Headquarters as your place of work with visits to any and all police locations across both forces so a willingness to travel is essential.
You are needed to engage with the officers, middle and upper management and stakeholders in order to ensure that the strategic changes are embedded into the culture.
The Changes will be from the digital arenas of Niche, Mobile Data, Body Worn Video, Single Online Home and the Joint Intranet. Along with the Business Change Lead and Operational Lead you will be expected to ensure that the Business understands the change that is needed and has provided the support to the users to embed this change.
There is the expectation that should a change be challenging or high impact you will ensure the project knows this and takes it into consideration.
Alongside the Business Change Lead you will need to ensure the Business Networks are kept informed and confident in providing support to the business. This will include identification of capable parties through to assisting in up skilling change agents.
Key Responsibilities
You need to have good written skills and an understanding of Microsoft programs to develop resources for the business, in the form of Crib sheets, videos and briefing documents at the request of the leads or if you believe they will be helpful.
You will need to be able to engage with officers and staff alike and show no favoritism between the forces to illustrate and explain changes - as well as highlight the impact these have on the users back to the projects.
Day to Day this role is always different - one day you may be illustrating the changes in Niche to the Intel unit and the next you may be assisting with technical user testing or testing guidance documents.....
Skills & Experience
Demonstrated desire to assist others within the policing and project frameworks is essential.
A knowledge of the Change process and stressors would be desirable.
A firm grasp of Microsoft suite is needed (excel, project, visio and Powerpoint alongside Word).
Historic or current usage of operational platforms - Niche, Pronto, BWV, sharepoint and NICE is desirable.
Further Information
Please contact Sarah Martin-Loat (Sarah.Martin-Loat@surrey.police.uk) for more information about the vacancy.
We recognise that our people are balancing demanding careers with commitments and interests outside of work. This vacancy will be based at Headquarters, Guildford.
Additional Information
Following submission of your application you will receive a confirmation email with a copy of your application attached. Occasionally emails from this address can fall into spam/junk folders so please ensure this is checked regularly. You may wish to consider adding noreply@surreysussexpolice.as.recruitmail.com to your address/contact list to ensure you receive all communications.
Surrey Police and Sussex Police work together in collaboration for this role, however they remain two different employers, with differing pay scales, allowances and terms and conditions including hours of employment.
If you are an internal candidate and are conditionally offered the role your attendance record and any reasonable adjustments already in place will be discussed with yourself and your current line manager. If you are successful in your application, you may be required to resign and transfer your employment, taking on the Terms & Conditions and pay scales of the Lead Force (if this is not your existing Home Force).
This post is being advertised in parallel with Force redeployment processes. Any redeployees who are identified will be given preference. This may result in the post being withdrawn at any point during the recruitment process.
Surrey Police and Sussex Police Special Constables, Volunteers and Agency Staff (excluding self employed workers) covered under the Agency Worker Regulations (AWR) are eligible to apply for internal advertised posts.
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