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Inspection and Audit Liaison Manager
| Posting date: | 04 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £41,133 to £47,212 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 20 July 2025 |
| Location: | Wallsend, Tyne & Wear |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 1 day per week |
| Company: | Northumbria Police |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | JRN 20343 |
Summary
Salary: Band 9, £41,133-£47,712
Location: Agile, Middle Engine Lane Police Station and homeworking
Hours/Contract: 37 hours per week, permanent
The role
Here at Northumbria Police, we think our region is amazing! It takes a great deal of people from different backgrounds, with diverse skills and experience to serve our force area effectively, think you have what it takes to help us make a difference? This could be the perfect time for you to join us in our Corporate Development Department as an Inspection and Audit Liaison Manager.
As an Inspection and Audit Liaison Manager you will co-ordinate and manage external inspection and audit activity, ensuring the force is prepared for inspections and makes best use of local advocates within departments and area commands to support activities.
What you’ll do
• Serve as the primary contact for all external inspection activities, coordinating and managing these activities to ensure a unified and consistent response.
• Understand and interpret inspectorate requirements, providing guidance to Departments and Area Commands to prepare for inspections. Assess, constructively challenge, and present findings and recommendations to ensure the force is positively represented.
• Collaborate with Area Commanders and Department Heads to develop comprehensive improvement plans based on inspection findings. Facilitate self-assessments, identify and address gaps through constructive challenge and quality assurance techniques.
• Act as the HMICFRS Force Liaison Officer, representing the Force at external meetings and building a network of internal and external contacts to stay informed on emerging issues and best practices, ensuring continuous improvement in inspection activities.
• Compile and contribute to the Force’s responses to consultations related to external inspection and audit activities, for approval by the Executive Team.
What you’ll bring
• Degree level (or equivalent level of experience).
• Excellent organisational skills and an ability to balance and prioritise competing demands to achieve deadlines.
• Demonstrable ability to analyse and evaluate issues in order to form a judgment.
• Credible as an adviser and consultant to senior executives.
• Strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills.
• Articulate with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
We know it's important for you to feel that you're not only part of a great team, but part of a community. We welcome applications from suitably qualified people from all sections of the community, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.
Harnessing these differences creates a productive environment in which everyone feels valued, and their talents are fully utilised. Appointments are based on merit alone.
Interested to learn more? For further information about the role please contact Tanya Reade, Corporate Governance Manager by email at tanya.reade@northumbria.police.uk
Just so you know
Candidates with priority status will be given precedence for this role over other applicants.
We are proud members of the Business Disability Forum, with whom we collaborate with to improve the lives of disabled employees. We are also a Disability Confident Employer, therefore if you demonstrate that you meet the minimum criteria for this role as stated in the advert, we will progress your application and offer you an interview.
If you tell us that you have a disability, we can make adjustments to support you through the recruitment process (for example we can arrange extra time for tests or provide a sign language interpreter) You can get in touch with us via careers@northumbria.police.uk for any support regarding the application process. Please provide us with plenty of notice so we can ensure your visit goes smoothly.
If your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a Recruitment Vetting (RV) form, therefore you must be a resident of the UK for a minimum period of 3 years to ensure vetting checks can be successfully performed. A job offer will be dependent upon vetting clearance, medical information, and references.
Location: Agile, Middle Engine Lane Police Station and homeworking
Hours/Contract: 37 hours per week, permanent
The role
Here at Northumbria Police, we think our region is amazing! It takes a great deal of people from different backgrounds, with diverse skills and experience to serve our force area effectively, think you have what it takes to help us make a difference? This could be the perfect time for you to join us in our Corporate Development Department as an Inspection and Audit Liaison Manager.
As an Inspection and Audit Liaison Manager you will co-ordinate and manage external inspection and audit activity, ensuring the force is prepared for inspections and makes best use of local advocates within departments and area commands to support activities.
What you’ll do
• Serve as the primary contact for all external inspection activities, coordinating and managing these activities to ensure a unified and consistent response.
• Understand and interpret inspectorate requirements, providing guidance to Departments and Area Commands to prepare for inspections. Assess, constructively challenge, and present findings and recommendations to ensure the force is positively represented.
• Collaborate with Area Commanders and Department Heads to develop comprehensive improvement plans based on inspection findings. Facilitate self-assessments, identify and address gaps through constructive challenge and quality assurance techniques.
• Act as the HMICFRS Force Liaison Officer, representing the Force at external meetings and building a network of internal and external contacts to stay informed on emerging issues and best practices, ensuring continuous improvement in inspection activities.
• Compile and contribute to the Force’s responses to consultations related to external inspection and audit activities, for approval by the Executive Team.
What you’ll bring
• Degree level (or equivalent level of experience).
• Excellent organisational skills and an ability to balance and prioritise competing demands to achieve deadlines.
• Demonstrable ability to analyse and evaluate issues in order to form a judgment.
• Credible as an adviser and consultant to senior executives.
• Strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills.
• Articulate with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
We know it's important for you to feel that you're not only part of a great team, but part of a community. We welcome applications from suitably qualified people from all sections of the community, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.
Harnessing these differences creates a productive environment in which everyone feels valued, and their talents are fully utilised. Appointments are based on merit alone.
Interested to learn more? For further information about the role please contact Tanya Reade, Corporate Governance Manager by email at tanya.reade@northumbria.police.uk
Just so you know
Candidates with priority status will be given precedence for this role over other applicants.
We are proud members of the Business Disability Forum, with whom we collaborate with to improve the lives of disabled employees. We are also a Disability Confident Employer, therefore if you demonstrate that you meet the minimum criteria for this role as stated in the advert, we will progress your application and offer you an interview.
If you tell us that you have a disability, we can make adjustments to support you through the recruitment process (for example we can arrange extra time for tests or provide a sign language interpreter) You can get in touch with us via careers@northumbria.police.uk for any support regarding the application process. Please provide us with plenty of notice so we can ensure your visit goes smoothly.
If your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a Recruitment Vetting (RV) form, therefore you must be a resident of the UK for a minimum period of 3 years to ensure vetting checks can be successfully performed. A job offer will be dependent upon vetting clearance, medical information, and references.
Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme
Disability Confident
About Disability Confident
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.