At a Glance
- Tasks: Provide admin support and customer service in a dynamic forensic environment.
- Company: Join a dedicated Forensic Identification Unit with a focus on teamwork.
- Benefits: Part-time hours, flexible working days, and valuable experience in a unique field.
- Other info: Opportunity for future vacancies and career growth in a supportive team.
- Why this job: Make a difference in the forensic world while developing your skills.
- Qualifications: Experience in administration, strong communication skills, and a proactive attitude.
The predicted salary is between 20000 - 25000 £ per year.
Are you a pro-active and self-motivated individual looking for a new opportunity where you can utilise and develop your customer service and administrative skills?
We are looking for a skilled administrator to join our Forensic Identification Unit as a Forensic Support Officer on a part time basis.
This is a busy and varied role where you will be required to multi task and work as part of a small team, providing administrative and customer service support to a range of stakeholders both internal and external to our organisation.
In this role your main responsibilities will include
- Acting as a point of contact for all queries that come into the department, ensuring professional customer service standards are maintained.
- Undertaking a range of administrative duties including the booking of transport and accommodation, filing, scanning, and responding to queries using email, phone and face to face communication methods.
- Managing the receipt, distribution and dispatch of forensic exhibits, checking courier datasheets against information on evidential packages.
- Maintaining departmental records and document collections, undertaking weeding and archiving of custody samples.
- Checking stock levels, processing and issuing equipment orders
- Ensuring all duties undertaken are completed in compliance with department policies and procedures.
Skills and experience required
- Experience of working in an administrative role and following office procedures.
- Skilled computer user familiar with using Microsoft packages etc.
- Experience of creating and maintaining both electronic and manual records.
- Ability to retrieve and interpreting information.
- Excellent verbal and written communication and customer service skills.
- Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team.
Additional Information
This is a part time role and will be 29.6 hours per week which is 4 days. Working days can be agreed with the successful candidate.
Interviews are likely to be held week commencing 31st August 2026 after the bank holiday.
If you are successful but not the highest scoring applicant you will be placed on a 6 month bank for any future vacancies that could arise.
To be eligible to apply for this role you must have a 5 year ‘checkable history’ in the UK – ideally this means that you would have been resident in the UK for the last 3 years.
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