# Criminal Records Officer

**Company**: West Midlands Police
**Location**: Birmingham
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: £28,914 - £32,613
**Category**: Other
**Industry**: Government & Public Sector

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## Description

The role of Criminal Records Officer is to process applications for Enhanced DBS checks in relation to persons wishing to work with children and/or vulnerable adults.

The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) helps employers make safer recruitment decisions by processing and issuing DBS checks for England, Wales, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.

**Key Responsibilities**

- Search, interrogate and extract information from various Police systems and databases to identify records held in relation to the DBS applicant.

- Analyse and evaluate all information found from varied sources using the National Quality Assurance Framework (QAF).

- Prepare the Audit Trail (AT) document, presenting all relevant information clearly and concisely in the Hit Relevance Table.

- Use decision making skills to analyse, risk assess and determine whether the relevant information recorded on the AT document can be discarded.

- Escalate the DBS application to a Decision Maker in a timely manner, with the appropriate briefing report to support the disclosure decision.

- Liaise with internal colleagues, DBS, other forces and external agencies in respect of the work of the Unit.

- Provide advice and guidance on DBS to internal departments, external agencies and members of the public.

**Hours of Work and Flexibility**

- This is a full-time position working between core hours of 08:00 to 16:00, Monday to Friday.

- The role is hybrid working with 60% of working days on-site.

**Selection Process**

- Online Application and Sift

- Interview

- Pre-Employment Checks

## Skills

### Required
- Police computer systems
- databases
- National Quality Assurance Framework (QAF)
- risk assessment
- decision making

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