Media Job: Temporary local policing communications officer (east), Police Scotland

CLOSING DATE: August 10, 2015

Location: Fettes, Edinburgh

Band E: £24,444 – £28,824 + on call allowance

Ref no: R68/15

THE post holder will provide a professional and effective frontline communications response, proactively and reactively, in support of the aims of corporate communications and service priorities.

You will serve as the first point of contact for the media on local policing issues and help to deliver communications products in support of the policing purpose of keeping people safe.

The post holder will be required to participate in an on-call rota and seven-day shift system. This post is offered initially for a period of six months.

The following essential competencies will be used for the selection process:

1. Effective communication

2. Job knowledge

3. Service delivery

4. Problem solving

5. Team working

6. Partnership working

Full details regarding this vacancy can be found here.

Please refer to the relevant competencies within the role profile when completing your application form.

Please be aware that that the interim SPA pay and grading structure may be subject to future change as a result of restructuring.

Individuals working, or applying for a flexible working arrangement who wish to apply for this post will have their flexible working arrangement considered inline with current policy, as well as both personal and organisational needs.

The Scottish Police Authority and Police Scotland are committed to promoting a diverse workforce and to achieving and promoting an organisational culture where staff and officers are treated with dignity, fairness and respect.

To assist us to monitor the effectiveness of our equality and diversity practices, we would encourage you to complete and submit the Equality and Diversity monitoring form, which will be separated from your application form prior to the selection process. The information you provide will be treated as sensitive data under the Data Protection Act 1998.

Applicants must be a British citizen, a member of the EU or other states in the EEA, a Commonwealth citizen or a foreign national free of restrictions. You should also have been resident in the UK for a minimum of three years immediately prior to application. In certain circumstances, it is possible for the minimum residency period for vetting to be waived. This can only be done where it is possible to make, or confirm, in the relevant jurisdictions with local Law Enforcement and National Security bodies, which are equivalent, and of a similar standard, to enquiries, which would be made in the UK, on both the applicant and all family members and associates. In cases where it is not possible to makes the equivalent checks, the residency criterion will be stringently enforced.

No CVs please – full application forms must be completed.

For an application pack visit www.scotland.police.uk/recruitment, or www.spa.police.uk/work-with-us/current-vacancies

e-mail recruitmentcentre@scotland.pnn.police.uk or call 01355 566350.

Please quote reference number R68/15.

Closing date: Monday 10 August 2015 by 4.30pm

Interview date: To be advised.

Our purpose: To improve the safety and well being of people, places and communities in Scotland

Our focus: Keeping people safe

This post was first advertised on allmediascotland.com on July 23 2015.