Digital Imaging & Admin Officer (Coldharbour)

Location of Role: Coldharbour

Advert Closing Date: 13/03/2025

Starting Salary: £24,768.00 (pro-rata for part-time vacancies)

Part/Full Time: Full Time

Contract Type: Permanent

Working Pattern: Mon-Fri

Weekend/Evening Working: No

We are seeking a suitably skilled and motivated individual to join the Digital Imaging Unit, which provides imaging services across Kent and Essex from the single site location of Coldharbour, Kent.

The unit offers a range of specialist imaging services to support criminal investigations and assist in the presentation of often complex and distressing material at court. These include digital representations of crime scenes, and injuries to deceased persons, utilising 3D Graphic applications to produce outcomes (known as body mapping).

The main responsibilities of your role will be to monitor the job requests from officers via Case management systems or email and the processing of CSI imagery into PDF formats, sharing evidence with internal & external partners via sharing platforms. You will be required to collate and print Jury Bundles for Court, undertaking a range of general administrative tasks to ensure the smooth running of the Unit while also ensuring the maintenance and consumable stock levels of the printer, for which training will be provided.

A high degree of personal resilience is required in respect of the graphic nature of the imagery the team process.

A good working knowledge of Microsoft Office products including Adobe products and excellent keyboard skills are essential.

Excellent communication skills, verbal and written, are required to deal effectively with all ranks and grades of officers and staff and a range of external stakeholders. You must be extremely organised and precise, and highly motivated, working in a fast-paced environment, managing multiple demands to ensure the requirements of the criminal justice system are achieved.

Previous photography / digital imaging / 3D graphic experience within or outside of law enforcement would be an advantage, as would experience in the use of Athena or relevant case management systems.

The potential post holder must be reliable, be able to demonstrate flexibility and initiative and cope with conflicting demands in a busy and varied working environment. Accuracy and attention to detail are key qualities necessary for the role. Due to the highly sensitive and confidential nature of much of the work, the post holder must always demonstrate a high degree of integrity and discretion.

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Your application for this role will be shortlisted on the content you provide within the “reason for application” question, within the application form itself. CV’s, covering letters or attachments are not included in the shortlist. Within your “reason for application” answer, please refer to any experience, skills, and abilities you feel you have that will make you suitable for this role, based on the role criteria stated in the job advert or job description. Please provide as much detail as possible as insufficient content may mean you do not meet the shortlisting criteria, however please note this question is limited to 9000 characters and this system will count spaces and blank lines as characters. This count may differ from the Microsoft Word word count function therefore you may wish to use a different online character counter to check the characters used.

Depending on your current vetting level and security clearances, you may be required to complete additional vetting information during the recruitment process.

Kent Police and Essex Police welcomes applications regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, sex, or employment status.

Please let us know if you require extra support at any stage of the application process, or for further information regarding this position, please email us at recruitment.business.services@ecis.police.uk stating ‘Application Support and Adjustments’ in the title of your email. Alternatively, you can call us on 01245 452833.

Where appropriate we will make adjustments to the selection process, working arrangements and/or the working environment provided it is reasonable in all the circumstances to do so.

This post is open to:

British Citizens
Members of a European Economic Area (EEA) state who hold settled status under the EU Settlement Scheme.
Commonwealth citizens or foreign nationals (who are not British citizens or European Economic Area (EEA) state members) who have leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom for an indefinite period that is free from restrictions.

All applicants (except those who have been serving abroad with the British Armed Forces) must have lived in the UK continuously for the past three years.

Essex Police and Kent Police are an equal opportunities employer. Communications may be recorded for monitoring purposes.

Essex Police is a Disability Confident Leader, we:

have subjected our Disability Confident self-assessment to external challenge and validation
are taking an active leadership role in encouraging and helping other employers on their journey to becoming Disability Confident.

Diversity, Equality and Inclusion are central to the values of our organisation. At Essex Police we value and embrace the unique experiences, identities and abilities that each of us bring to our roles. We strive to empower everyone to bring their authentic self openly and safely to work.

Through the dedicated commitment of our support networks, DE&I team and wider HR departments, we are on a journey to embed our DE&I commitments, ensuring Essex Police is an employer of choice; where everyone feels included.