SYP - Apprentice Witness Care Officer

Role: Apprentice Witness Care Officer

Department: Criminal Justice Department

Location: Snig Hill, Sheffield

Term: Fixed Term Contract – 18 Months

Band: Apprentice

Salary: £10,710

Hours per week: 37 hours

See attachments for Role Profile & Person Specification

The successful candidate will be responsible for Witness Care to assure delivery of the minimum standards of service defined under the Victim Code of Practice principles including:

• To be developed to act as single contact reference with witnesses from point of charge to case conclusion
• determining and maintaining the up to date status of all witness availability and providing to court and CPS
• conducting a witness needs assessment for victim/witnesses to determine and personally address any identified issues
• obtaining and documenting contact with all witnesses, acknowledgment of attendance, ensuring that any needs are met, to legislative compliance and assuring effective case progression
• alerting witnesses to requirements for court hearing attendance and to outcome
• finalising cases
• attend and complete learning and assignments associated with the apprenticeship qualification

Liaison with internal/external/specialist agencies at a variety of levels.

Interrogate, maintain and retrieve data/information using various computer and manual recording packages, accurately contributing to monitoring activities for own and multi-agency partnership purposes

Any other duties commensurate with the grade of the post.

For more information regarding the role responsibilities, please see the Summary of Main Duties & for a breakdown of the essential criteria, please refer to the Person Specification.

For further information about this post please, contact Katy Broughton on Tel No: 07468473013.  Please do not contact this number for an application form.

Applicants must meet the minimum checkable history criteria, which must be taken into account for all individuals applying to work with South Yorkshire Police in any capacity.  A minimum checkable history period of 3 Years has been identified for this role and successfully undergoing recruitment vetting procedure is a pre-requisite of employment with South Yorkshire Police.

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Closing dates are not normally extended, other than in exceptional circumstances and an agreement is made with the HR Manager - Recruitment and the Line Manager for the role.

Closing date:   Sunday, 20 May 2018

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