Police Staff

Are you ready for a career that offers growth, training, and the chance to develop your skills?

Would you like to enjoy competitive pay and comprehensive benefits while making an impact?

Do you want to work alongside passionate individuals who share your commitment to service?

Join us and ask yourself:

How will your contribution help shape a safer future?

Are you ready to embrace the challenge and take initiative?

Salary

• Competitive Salary
• Generous sick pay provisions

Annual leave

• 24 days annual leave per year which increases with service (up to 32 days).
• Flexi time is offered for certain Police Staff roles which helps to accommodate employees’ individual needs by balancing work with personal obligations.

Bank holidays

• 8 Statutory public/bank holidays, taken on the designated day or, if this falls on one of your working days, you will be entitled to take an alternative day.
• Part-time employees have bank holidays on a pro-rata basis.

Throughout your service, you’ll enjoy the advantages of the Local Government pension scheme.

• We offer a full range of Occupational Health Services, including medical screening, vaccination, physiotherapy, and counselling services.
• You’ll also have 24/7 access to Vivup Employee Assistance.
• The Occupational Health team aims to support attendance and effectiveness by working proactively to minimise health risks and to promote individual responsibility for health, fitness, and wellbeing.
• Our Sports and Recreation Association offer access to a number of gyms on police premises across the Dyfed-Powys area.
• There is also the opportunity to represent us in a variety of sports, from football and rugby to lifesaving and triathlon.

There are a range of associations, networks and groups supporting our workforce and Dyfed Powys Police has a range of initiatives and schemes to help colleagues develop.

Our staff networks offer support and friendship to our officers, staff, and the local community alike. They work to support and advise colleagues nationally and we are proud of the active part they play in influencing policing across the UK.

Support and advice from our Staff Associations and Support Networks which include:

• Ability Staff Network
• Christian Police Association
• Gender Equality Network
• LGBT Network and Ethnic Minority Support Network.
• The Police Federation

You’ll join our staff rewards scheme, offering discounts in a range of high street and online stores. Also, whilst you’re enrolled with our university partner and studying for your degree qualification, you’ll be eligible for student discount schemes.

You’ll have access to the support of Unison; the representative trade union for police staff across the UK.

To promote healthy journeys to work, Dyfed-Powys Police provide staff and officers with the opportunity for a new bike and safety equipment, with big discount off the total price.

You can apply for up to £4,000 and choose to spread the payments over either 12 or 18 months.

Citizenship 

You must be a British Citizen, citizen from the European Economic Area (EEA), Commonwealth citizen or foreign national with no restrictions on your stay in the United Kingdom.

Residency

You must have been continually resident in the UK for the three-year period immediately before an application is made. This is to satisfy the requirement to vet all applicants in an equitable manner and the UK Police service does not currently have any means of facilitating vetting checks overseas, to the extent required of those who have been resident in the UK. Applicants who cannot be vetted, cannot be appointed.

Cautions and Convictions

You may still be eligible to join the police service if you have minor convictions/cautions, but there are certain offences and conditions that will make you ineligible. You MUST declare all convictions for past offences, formal cautions (including as a juvenile) and any bind-over imposed by the courts. You should also include all traffic convictions. Due to the nature of policing, it’s essential that we conduct rigorous vetting checks on successful applicants before they can join the program.

Financial Status

All applicants will have their financial status checked. These checks are carried out because Police staff have access to privileged information, which may make them vulnerable to corruption. Any applicants with outstanding County Court judgements, who have been registered bankrupt with outstanding debts, will be rejected. If you have discharged bankruptcy debts, then you will need to provide a Certificate of Satisfaction with your application. Applicants who are the subject of a current Individual Voluntary Arrangement (IVA) will not be considered.

Tattoos / Piercings

Candidates with visible tattoos, body piercing or other body modifications may be considered eligible for appointment if the force considers that the individual case does not breach the Code of Conduct or constitute a risk to the health and safety of the staff and officers.

Tattoos are not a bar to appointment.  However, some tattoos could potentially offend members of the public or colleagues or could bring discredit to the Police Service.

Tattoos are not acceptable if they: undermine the dignity and authority of the Police Service; could cause offence to members of the public or colleagues and/or invite provocations; are garish or numerous or particularly prominent; indicate unacceptable attitudes towards women, minority groups or any other section of the community; indicate alignment with a particular group which could give offence to members of the public or colleagues; are considered to be discriminatory, rude, lewd, crude, racist, sexist, sectarian, homophobic, violent or intimidating.

Undisclosed information

Where it is suspected that an individual has failed to declare information, enquiries will be made to ascertain if the individual deliberately failed to disclose this information. If so, their application will be rejected.

The Police Staff Application process can differ depending on what role you are applying for. You will either be asked to complete an application form or upload a CV with a personal statement.

In all cases prior to submitting your application please ensure you:

• read all sections of the role profile to ensure you understand all the requirements of the position.
• review the essential competency criteria on the role profile that will need to be evidenced against in your application.
• re-read your application to check for spelling, grammar, and formatting before submitting.
• complete your application in plenty of time for the closing date deadline.

Vetting 

• The importance of honesty and integrity is made clear throughout our application process. Dyfed-Powys Police Officers are subject to the Standards of Professional Behaviour, which clearly set out what communities can expect from their officers.
• Vetting checks will be completed by our Professional Standards Department and a decision will be made on whether vetting can be granted. 

This can take up to 8 weeks or longer depending on individual circumstances.

References

• References are required to cover a minimum of 5 years of continuous employment history. If you have not been in employment for 5 years, we will look to obtain education and personal references.
• Any sickness declared by a previous employer will be reviewed by Senior Management in line with Dyfed-Powys Police Absence Management policy.

Once you have completed the recruitment process you will be sent an email formally offering you an appointment and start date