Counter Fraud Investigator
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 21 Gorffennaf 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £29,525 bob blwyddyn |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 03 Awst 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Birmingham |
| Cwmni: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 416660/1 |
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Have you got excellent organisational skills?
Are you someone who is happy to communicate at all levels?
If so, we’d love to hear from you!
The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) helps keep Britain moving, safely and sustainably.
We do this by helping people through a lifetime of safe and sustainable journeys, helping them keep their vehicles safe to drive, and protecting them from unsafe drivers and vehicles.
We’re working hard to:
- Make roads safer
- Improve services for our customers
- Make road transport greener and healthier
- Harness the potential of technology and data
- Grow and level up the economy
Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:
- Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
- 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the King’s birthday
- Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.
Read more in the Benefits section below!
Find out more about what it's like working at Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency - Department for Transport Careers
The Counter Fraud Investigator is responsible for the day-to-day investigations across the Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) Driver/Rider/Vehicle environments.
The successful candidate would ensure delivery of an effective, timely, business and customer focused counter fraud investigations in accordance with plans and corporate objectives. This role has specific responsibility for Safeguarding and Internal Enquires.
The role holder is responsible for providing a rigor by which matters of impropriety in the areas identified above can be managed and actioned as required by the Investigation Manager, Senior Investigation Manager, and the Head of Counter-Fraud.
These roles will primarily work with Driver related investigations, although you will need to be highly adaptable and flexible, adjusting to the requirements of the role as and when business needs arise.
Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:
- Adopting the role of “Lead Investigator” when allocated, with the responsibility of planning, preparing, and managing the investigation to a criminal standard based on evidence.
- Investigating all safeguarding enquires and ADI misconduct cases.
- Investigating Internal fraud and serious misconduct.
- Conducting investigations in line with current best practices, Police & Criminal Evidence Act (PACE) RIPA, Criminal Procedure & Investigations Act (CPIA), Data Protection Act (DPA), & Freedom of Information (FOI) and Scottish equivalents.
- Ensuring investigations are conducted in a manner which is only evidence based.
The role may also involve the following;
- Planning and executing surveillance on target nominals, including dealing with Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA) issues.
- Preparing full reports and papers for prosecution cases and / or Public Enquires to critical deadlines.
- Appearing in court as an expert witness.
- Investigating all allocated reports of suspected illegal driving instruction and malpractice against the agency.
- Ensuring investigations are conducted in a manner which is only evidence based.
- Investigating all allocated reports of suspected theory and/or practical driving tests (including impersonations and technology assisted. cheating at tests) and malpractice against the agency.
- Ensuring investigations are conducted in a manner which is only evidence based.
For further information on the role, please read the role profile attached. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.
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