Enforcement Support Officer
| Posting date: | 18 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | £33,210 per year |
| Additional salary information: | The advertised salary is inclusive of a base salary of £25,159 and a shift working allowance of £8,051. |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 29 August 2025 |
| Location: | Ashford (Kent) |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 419250/1 |
Summary
Are you a confident driver?
Have you got a can-do attitude?
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 DVSA:
Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency - Department for Transport Careers
We have an exciting opportunity for an Enforcement Support Officer to join our team. If you would like a job where no two days are the same and to also have the chance to make a real difference to Road Safety & Environmental Standards, then this is the role for you! You'll provide support by means of stopping vehicles for other enforcement staff, thus contributing to the maintenance and improvement of Road Safety & Environmental Standards. The role would require you to work to a 5-week rota consisting of early, late and night shifts, for this you will be rewarded with an attractive allowance for this.
Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:
- Directing / causing vehicles to stop, using vehicles or other methods, to enable staff from the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) to undertake road safety inspections.
- Contributing to the efficiency of roadside checks by making sure the equipment and vehicles are available and fit for use.
- Providing basic IT and clerical support during roadside checks, and other associated tasks.
- Carrying out minimum maintenance and upkeep of “High-Viz” vehicles (oil, water, tyre pressures & condition etc).
- Assisting in the administration of the check site by confirming staff resources are available.
- Assisting the Area Management Team in ensuring compliance with health and safety requirements.
For further information on the role, please read the role profile.
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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