Full-Time Drugs Test on Arrest Officer – Local Authority (ID:5754)
Job Description
Role: Drugs Test on Arrest Officer REF 363818
Contract Length: Until March 2025
Location: Exeter or Torquay
IR35: Inside
Pay Rate to Intermediary: £16.66 per hour
Spinwell is recruiting for a Drugs Test on Arrest Officer for an excellent opportunity within the public sector.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE DRUGS TEST ON ARREST OFFICER
The principal responsibility of the role is to manage and co-ordinate the ‘drugs testing on arrest’ (DTOA) process across custody suits within the police, ensuring quality and continuity in the testing process and provide performance management information, including monthly returns to the Home Office. This will include identifying and recording offences within the required assessment process, together with commencing the initial investigation, whilst promoting drug testing on arrest together with drug referral and drug treatment for detainees to staff as a crime prevention intervention.
In particular to:
- Manage and Co-ordinate the delivery of the DTOA programme providing a single point of contact and subject matter expert.
- Monitor and evaluate the DTOA programme establishing reasons for successes and failures, designing and implementing effective inspection methods and providing recommendations for improvement to senior management in line with research and data gathering.
- Analyse and interpret data gathered through the programme and reporting this back both internally and externally to the organisation.
- Establish and maintain key links with programme stakeholders and partners. This includes representing the force at local, regional and national meetings.
- Collate and record offences related to the DTOA programme. Making decisions on prosecution, creating prosecution files and monitoring outcomes of these.
- Maintain the equipment for the programme and training staff as required on equipment and processes.
- Maintain the DTOA financial budget and allocate spend where require in line with Home Office funding figures.
- This list of duties is not restrictive or exhaustive and the post-holder may be required to carry out duties from time to time that are either commensurate with/or lower than the grade of the post.In some posts this might include the ad-hoc provision of guidance and informal training of new colleagues.In addition, there are some functions that are intrinsic to this role. An employer’s duty of care and current legislation allows the Force to establish if a potential applicant could carry them out, either with or without reasonable adjustments. These functions are:
- Lone working
- Driving long distances
- Working with chemicals/biological hazards
To assist in ensuring applicants would be able to undertake these functions of the role, a medical assessment via a questionnaire will be undertaken and may subsequently require a consultation with the Occupational Health Support Unit.
SKILLS/EXPERIENCE OF THE DRUGS TEST ON ARREST OFFICER
- Proven ability to use computer systems including Microsoft Office applications, in particular Excel spreadsheets.
- Ability to extract and interpret data from systems and/or databases and collating the data in a presentable format for senior leadership and external agencies.
- A good working knowledge of investigations and the Criminal Justice system, police procedure and deployments, police investigations and Human Rights legislation.
- Experience in making and reviewing decisions after gathering all available information, assessing risks and considering available options.
- Demonstrate the ability to work co-operatively and unsupervised.
- Able to put together training and deliver training to colleagues.
- Excellent planning and organisation skills to be able to manage their own time effectively and achieve deadlines and requirements of partner agencies.
- A proven ability to communicate at all levels and the ability to influence improvements in working practices.
- Must possess a high level of self-motivation and the ability to work on own initiative in developing good practice and efficiency based on organisational need, whilst understanding and recognising differing agencies’ needs, priorities and funding constraints.
If you are a Drugs Test on Arrest Officer, apply now or send your CV to Spinwell!
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