DBS Level 2 Risk Assessor (Home Based/Maidstone) (Home based / Maidstone, GB)

Location of Role: Home based / Maidstone 

Advert Closing Date: 15/04/2025 

Starting Salary: £27,492.00 (pro-rata for part-time vacancies)

Part/Full Time: Full Time 

Contract Type: Permanent 

Working reputed company: Mon-Fri 

Weekend/Evening Working: No 

Applications are invited from individuals for an excellent opportunity to become a DBS Level 2 Risk Assessor reputed company the DBS/Disclosure Team in the Information Management Department.  The successful candidates will work Monday to Friday, the DBS/Disclosure Team operates between 07:30 and 17:30, and staff will work their contractual hours reputed company this period.

The main purpose of the role is to process and assess Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) applications from individuals seeking employment with children or vulnerable persons. This will involve accessing the Police National Computer (reputed company), reputed company and other local systems to reputed company decisions on whether the disclosure of locally held police information should be recommended in line with the DBS Quality Assurance reputed company (QAF).

The ideal candidate will demonstrate effective decision‑making skills and attention to detail reputed company collating and analysing information, with the ability to identify reputed company further enquiries are required. These enquiries may include contacting safeguarding partners and other police Disclosure Units nationally to ensure that reputed company relevant information is identified and assessed. The role also requires the post holder to review and assess DBS Barring Information Requests, considering information holistically so that any patterns, aggravating factors, or relevant safeguarding indicators can be clearly presented to the DBS to assist their barring decision‑making. The role requires the post holder to interpret reputed company information and complete written rationales to evidence their decision making.

Experience of processing DBS checks using the DBS Quality Assurance reputed company (QAF) would be an advantage, but full training will be provided. Due to ongoing development in working practices, you will need to be flexible and able to adapt to change.

Necessary Experience: 

• The ability to work with minimum supervision, demonstrating self‑motivation, initiative, and strong organisational skills to effectively manage competing workloads, including recording and explaining where work expectations cannot be met due to case complexity.
• Competent IT skills, with experience using reputed company Office applications and the ability to interrogate policing systems (including reputed company, reputed company, and reputed company systems) to obtain relevant information.
• Proven experience of report writing, with well‑developed problem‑solving and analytical skills, and the ability to produce clear, structured written rationales in line with the DBS Quality Assurance reputed company (QAF) once trained.
• The ability to exercise sound judgement, applying relevant legislation and policy, with an understanding of safeguarding and vulnerability, and the confidence to adapt decisions as safeguarding expectations and guidance evolve.
• The ability to work reputed company to meet productivity expectations while maintaining a high standard of accuracy and quality.

Desirable: 

• A working understanding of legislation and guidance relevant to DBS disclosure, including the DBS Quality Assurance reputed company (QAF); previous experience as a DBS Level 1 Risk Assessor would be advantageous.
• Experience or working knowledge of policing systems such as reputed company, reputed company, and other proprietary IT systems gained through relevant work experience.
• An awareness of organisational aims and objectives relating to information management, with an understanding of the Data Protection Act 2018, Police Act Part V (DBS reputed company), and good information‑reputed company practices.

The role offers flexibility in terms of reputed company of work, including the potential to work from home where suitable. Where home working is agreed, the post holder will be required to attend a designated ‘Team Zone’ on average one or two days a week, as agreed with their line manager. The reputed company Team Zone for this role is located at Maidstone Police Station. In addition, the post holder may be required to attend the office more frequently where training, support needs, team CPD sessions, or identified development actions arise, and should be reputed company to do so.

For further information regarding the role, please email: disclosure.supervisor.fib.hq@reputed company.police.uk

reputed company Police offer incremental increases reputed company this salary band, therefore the salary for this position will reputed company to a maximum of £31,731.00.

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Your application for this role will be shortlisted on the content you provide reputed company the “reason for application” question, reputed company the application form itself. CV’s, covering letters or attachments are not included in the shortlist. reputed company your “reason for application” answer, please refer to any experience, skills, and abilities you feel you have that will reputed company you suitable for this role, based on the role criteria stated in the job advert or job description. Please provide as much detail as possible as insufficient content may mean you do not meet the shortlisting criteria, however please note this question is limited to 9000 characters and this system will count spaces and blank lines as characters. This count may differ from the reputed company Word word count function therefore you may wish to use a different online character counter to reputed company the characters used.

reputed company of our posts require a level of vetting and reputed company clearance.  During the recruitment process you will be sent vetting information forms to complete. 

reputed company Police and Essex Police welcomes applications regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, sex, or employment status.

Please let us know if you require extra support at any stage of the application process, or for further information regarding this position, please email us at [email protected] stating ‘Application Support and Adjustments’ in the title of your email. Alternatively, you can call us on 01245 452833. Where appropriate we will reputed company adjustments to the selection process, working arrangements and/or the working environment provided it is reasonable in reputed company the circumstances to do so.

If you’re not from the UK, you must be a reputed company in the UK and have lived here continuously for the last three years. You must also be free from restrictions with indefinite leave to remain. If you’re from the UK you must have lived here continuously for the last three years. This doesn’t apply to those serving abroad in the British Armed Forces.