Prosecution & Legal Services Case Officer
| Posting date: | 24 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £25,159 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 04 August 2025 |
| Location: | Bristol |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 415167/1 |
Summary
Do you have excellent communication skills?
Can you plan and organise your own workload?
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 main purpose of the Prosecution and Fixed Penalty Case Officer is to prepare accurate information and related documentation for DVSA prosecution cases to be presented at court, on behalf of the Secretary of State for Transport.
You are also responsible for quality assuring paperwork and liaise with courts and internal/external customers regarding cases/dates, ensuring that deadlines are met.
You will also deliver back-office support to the Roadside Enforcement fixed penalties activities of DVSA.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Process and action regular reports, including generating and sending appropriate letters and proformas.
- Accept receipt of new prosecution cases submitted via an IT system, quality assure case papers for consistency and required evidence, reject and return case papers of an inferior quality.
- Prepare accurate summonses or postal charges and related documentation for cases to be presented at court.
- Manage individual case load on a daily basis by using IT diaries to ensure that legislative deadlines are met as well as internal and external SLA’s.
- Liaise with contracted solicitors and DVSA enforcement staff with respect to specific cases and appoint legal representation in the event of an appeal against a court decision.
- Book hearing dates at specified Magistrates’ Courts, liaising between courts and DVSA staff.
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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