Volume Crime Team Lead
| Posting date: | 13 February 2025 |
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| Salary: | £64,300 to £70,730 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 26 February 2025 |
| Location: | London |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 390612/1 |
Summary
Immigration Enforcement is responsible for enforcing the government’s immigration laws, tackling illegal migration, removing foreign national offenders and immigration offenders from the UK. It also aims to disrupt the organised criminal groups that exploit the vulnerable for their personal gain. Learn more on our careers pages.
This is an exciting and rewarding opportunity to step into a key leadership role. If you are passionate about making a real difference and are looking for a fulfilling and stimulating career, then come and see what we have to offer. You will be joining us at an interesting time and will play a key part in providing visible and inspirational leadership to an operational delivery team, including supporting them through ground-breaking change.
We are looking to recruit a leader for our regional Volume Crime Team (VCT). The VCT Lead will direct and manage operational front-line staff to enforce immigration laws fairly, protect and safeguard the vulnerable, and act on intelligence from Intelligence teams and the public to apprehend illegal migrants and target companies exploiting workers illegally.
As Lead people you will provide strategic direction and leadership to the VCT, driving performance improvements and enhancing professionalism and accountability. You will be responsible for completing 6 monthly reviews of investigations in line with our policy.
You will lead a truly professional, high-performing team with the necessary capabilities and skills to deliver for Immigration Enforcement and the wider Home Office. Equality, diversity, inclusion and fairness are at the heart of Immigration Enforcement. You will play a lead role in promoting and championing this through everything you do.
The Volume Crime Team is a regional team so whilst the successful candidate will be posted to our central London office, they will frequently be required to attend other office locations across our region.
Key responsibilities
- Devising and developing the regional crime and cash strategy across South ICE & ROM.
- Acting as a professional and visible role model by undergoing appropriate enforcement training to enable you to be warranted and arrest trained, enabling you to accompany front-line staff on operational visits on a regular basis. They will also be required to participate in an out-of-hours on call system.
- Leading strategic oversight of crime tasking across the region, focusing on priority work in line with national tasking, creating a formal adoption criteria based on assessment of risk, harm, threat factors and opportunities to support operational delivery/national priorities.
- Building effective working relationships with Law Enforcement partners, and external and internal stakeholders, to drive and support collaborative ways of working.
- Successfully leading and supporting the team through organisational change, understanding and clearly communicating the need for Immigration Enforcement (IE) to transform, in order to align its activities, to the wider organisational priorities.
- Undergoing and undertaking peer reviews, conducted initially at 6 months with further peer reviews at agreed timeframes.
- Ensuring all bail cases and cases that are released under investigation (RUI) are actively monitored and recorded correctly on Clue with reviews beyond 3 months and referring reviews to a senior office for bail beyond 6 months.
Working Pattern
Due to the business requirements of this role, it is only available on a full-time basis.
You should be willing to undertake Media Training.
You must also hold PIP1 accreditation as a minimum and subsequently be willing to increase your investigative skills and knowledge by attaining PIP2 accreditation.
Training
If not already appropriately trained, You will also need to be arrest trained to PST level 3 (2 week course) and pass an annual PST refresher (2 day).
You will receive full training and support to do the job. Training takes place initially in the classroom and then continues on the job with a mentor who supports you until you are fully confident in the role. Even then you are never alone; you work as part of a team where there is always someone around for advice and support. Further information on what the training involves can be found on our website.
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