The Force Coordination Centre was set up to manage all aspects of force resourcing. The Centre provides resourcing information to senior officers to assist in managing demand, planning and resourcing events and incidents. The team play a big role in ensuring that abstractions and annual leave are managed effectively, key work includes management of annual leave, arranging training courses and resourcing events and operations ensuring systems are updated to accurately reflect the information. They also support Silver and Gold Commanders by providing resourcing options for live time events and pre-planned operations. It’s the role of the FCC to make sure that the correct skilled resources are in the right place at the right time to ultimately reduce demand on a certain role or function. This ensures we continue to improve our service to the public and the wellbeing of our people.

We have an opportunity for you to be at the forefront of change within Northumbria Police as part of our Force Coordination Centre.  You will be working as part of a wider centralised resourcing team that will be responsible for coordinating the deployment of police officer and staff across the force area. The team will lead on understanding demand, resourcing requirements and skill profiles across the force to be able to translate these into plans that align with both internal and external demand.  

In return for your dedication and experience, we offer 23 days’ leave, excluding bank holidays, increasing to 28 days for 5 years+ service.  We support our people inside and out of work – offering a very competitive pension scheme, childcare vouchers, and discounts on shopping and eating out thanks to the Blue Light Card. And to take care of your physical and mental well-being, we’ve invested in extensive paid sick leave, trained mental health first aiders on-site, an employee advice service and access to gyms in some stations.  We also provide flexible working, including varying working hours as well as some home working where appropriate. 

This is an exciting opportunity to lead the delivery of a demand analysis, forecasting and modelling service to support, develop and improve the way our resources are deployed across the force. 

If you are highly analytical and possess workforce demand management planning experience, then this could be just the role for you;

You will be responsible for providing the analytical capability and solutions, interrogating force wide demand profiles to drive operational performance that is reflective of emerging trends.  

You will develop short, medium and long term forecasts that are aligned to operating models and seek to optimise operational resource deployment.

We will look to you to use modelling tools and your expertise to develop robust scenario based forecasts that will inform future approach to aligning capacity and resources to changing demand. 

The role will require you to be innovative and influence a more proactive approach to meeting and reducing demand.

Working closely with key stakeholders; sharing your findings, providing reports and making recommendations to enable improved efficiency and effectiveness of deployment and increased public and victim satisfaction.

You will be pivotal in conducting assessments, designing shift patterns and schedules that acknowledge the requirements of the business and our contractual obligations to our colleagues and work with the leadership team to ensure effective implementation. 

Someone who is organised and methodical in their approach with excellent analytical and problem solving skills is a given for this role.

In addition the right person; 

•  Will have experience in forecasting workloads and demand patterns, and a strong theoretical understanding of the design principles and methodology that support this. 
•  An ability to use information and analysis to report findings confidently in a clear and accessible way using evidence based research; communicating at all levels, both verbally and written.
•  Be self-driven / motivated, who can work independently as well as having excellent teamwork and stakeholder management skills to fit into a multi-disciplined organisation of police support staff, officers and volunteers.  
•  Be able to work to tight deadlines, whilst managing multiple work streams. 
•  Will be an advocate of helping drive a continuous improvement culture, seeking out new ways of working and using        technology to evolve how we do our business. 
•  Be an advanced Excel user with a good working knowledge of other Microsoft and relevant statistical packages; and having knowledge of VBA and SQL would also be extremely desirable. 

For further information please see the role profile FCC Analyst.pdf

Recruitment Vetting (RV) 

Applicants must be a resident of the UK for a minimum period of 3 years to ensure vetting checks can be successfully performed.  A job offer will be dependent upon vetting clearance, medical information and references. 

If you have any queries with regard to the application process please contact the Talent Acquisition Team by email at careers@northumbria.pnn.police.uk

 

All staff including those appointed on fixed term contracts must successfully complete their probationary period before they are eligible to apply for a Northumbria Police vacancy.

Northumbria Police are currently undertaking a role and reward project in respect of all police staff posts. For further information please contact the Talent Acquisition team.

Vacancy Contact:  To discuss the position in more detail please contact Inspector Michelle Caisley by email at michelle.caisley.7811@northumbria.pnn.police.uk

Northumbria Police fully supports a policy of equal opportunities and we welcome applications from suitably qualified people from all sections of the community, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation. Appointments are based on merit alone.