Quality and Performance Officer

Join us as a Quality & Performance Officer where you'll provide specialist support to our forensic units!

Working within the quality unit, you'll support the implementation and compliance of quality standards in line with the Home Office Forensic Science Regulators Code of Practice.

Providing specialist support to the forensic units requiring accreditation, enable them to gain and maintain accreditation to the required international standards (ISO 17025 and/or 17020).

You'll be supporting surveillance and initial assessment audits by ensuring all quality aspects of the portfolio unit are audit ready, assisting the audit manager and collating evidence to close out finding and completion of UKAS paperwork.

This role is based at the Arrow Centre, Nottingham.

For more information about EMSOU, visit the website: https://www.emsou.police.uk

EMSOU’s commitment to inclusion, diversity, and equality

At EMSOU we celebrate difference, encourage diversity of thought, and continually review our processes to maintain fairness, equality, and transparency. We aim to attract and retain the most talented people and we actively encourage applications from under-represented groups.

Encouraging a healthy work-life balance and flexibility is central to our success and wherever possible we will consider job-share, part-time, agile working, and flexible working arrangements.

We want to create an environment where everyone can achieve their full potential, and this applies equally during our recruitment process. EMSOU are Disability Confident Committed and are proud to be part of the movement of change encouraging organisations to think differently about disability and neurodiversity in the workplace.

Those interested in applying are welcome to have an informal conversation with EMSOU HR to discuss any adjustments that may help either during the recruitment process or whilst carrying out the role to see if these can be accommodated.

For part time hours the salary will be calculated on a pro-rata basis, this is based on the number of hours for the vacancy.

We welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds and encourage anyone who has considered a career in policing to apply. We are particularly keen to increase the number of females and candidates from black and minority ethnic communities and candidates from the LGBT community, so that we can truly reflect the communities that we serve in.