Salary: Band 6, £30,276 - £32,613 (Please note it is Northumbria Police policy to appoint at the beginning of the band)
Location: Agile, Homebased with regular National travel
Hours/Contract: 37 hours per week, fixed term / secondment opportunity until 30th June 2029 with the National Rural Crime Unit to identify the best approach to livestock theft
Working for #TeamNP
Our purpose at Team NP is simple: to keep people safe and fight crime. But it takes more than police officers alone to achieve this. That's where our 2,000-strong team of police staff and 200 volunteers make a difference.
As one of England's largest police forces, we offer a diverse range of departments and specialisms, creating endless opportunities to develop your career. From mentoring and coaching schemes to leadership programmes and online learning, we'll provide the support, training and time you need to achieve your ambitions.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we're committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone feels respected, valued and able to thrive.
Whether you're a member of staff or a volunteer, you'll have access to excellent health and wellbeing support, including year-round wellbeing initiatives, a 24/7 welfare support hotline and a leading approach to neurodiversity.
Above all, a career with Team NP is more than just a job. It's an opportunity to be part of something that truly matters.
Learn about our full benefits package
The role
This is a unique opportunity to apply for a fixed term / secondment (that may be extended) to work with a small team across the UK to identify the best approach to addressing livestock theft and to produce a national problem-solving plan, identify best practice and training materials.
This role will involve working closely with police forces across the UK and multiple agencies in building relationships, encouraging collaboration, consistent partnership working, promulgation of best practice and innovation. The successful candidate will have knowledge of investigations and be able to advise thereon.
What you’ll do
- Develop and deliver a national problem-solving plan to support the prevention and investigation of livestock theft.
- Identify intelligence gaps and emerging trends to help shape a coordinated national response.
- Research and promote best practice, producing recommendations to improve policing approaches across the UK.
- Create practical toolkits and training materials to support officers attending livestock theft incidents.
- Build strong relationships with police forces and partner organisations to encourage collaboration, innovation, and the sharing of best practice.
Sound interesting? For further information, and to support your application, please view the job description.
What you’ll bring
- A strong understanding of rural policing, with experience working within policing and/or tackling rural crime.
- Knowledge of livestock theft issues and the challenges they present within a policing environment.
- The ability to analyse complex information and communicate findings clearly to a wide range of audiences and stakeholders.
- Proven experience delivering projects or initiatives, overcoming barriers to success, and driving implementation within agreed timescales.
- Excellent relationship-building, communication and influencing skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively and work across multiple agencies, partners and locations to achieve shared objectives.
We know it's important for you to feel that you're not only part of a great team, but part of a community. 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.
Harnessing these differences creates a productive environment in which everyone feels valued, and their talents are fully utilised. Appointments are based on merit alone.
Interested to learn more? For further information about the role please contact Andrew Huddleston, Head of Unit by email at andrew.huddleston@ncatt.police.uk
What we offer
- 26 days’ leave (increasing to 30 days for 5 years+ service) plus 8 bank holidays
- NHS Fleet Solutions Car Lease Scheme
- Enhanced maternity, shared parental and adoption leave
- Flexi time - allowing you to fit your working hours around your individual needs
- Flexible working (we are happy to discuss options such as compressed hours)
- Agile working – option to work from home, your team zone, and spaces across the force
- Fantastic market-leading public sector pension scheme with up to 16% employer contribution
- Corporate travel schemes – local rail, bus services and metro discounts
- Access to private healthcare and eye test vouchers
- Discounts on shopping and eating out thanks to the Blue Light Card and Blue Light Tickets
- We’ve invested in extensive paid sick leave, trained mental health first aiders on-site, an employee advice service for the times you need that additional support
- Access to gyms in some stations
- Sports & Social Club – join our thriving sports scene at Team NP and enjoy further exclusive discounts on days out and travel
- Cycle to work scheme
- Opportunity to volunteer in local community
We are committed to creating a connected and agile workplace. For agile and home-based roles, employees are expected to work from a Force site at least once a week, with two days recommended. Hiring managers can discuss arrangements at interview. This approach supports collaboration, wellbeing and strong working relationships.
Just so you know
Our application form will help us understand how your work, education and life experience has prepared you for the role of a Livestock Theft Coordinator with #TeamNP. To help support your application research what makes us tick here at Northumbria, the role you’re applying for and the values and behaviours that contribute.
The recruitment process will consist of the initial application form followed by a face-to-face interview. Just so you know, you can save your application and come back to it any time prior to the closing date on the advert.
We are proud members of the Business Disability Forum and a Disability Confident Leader. We are committed to offering an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role. Where application volumes are exceptionally high, we may prioritise those who most closely meet the criteria, applying the same fair approach to all candidates.
If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process. Please contact careers@northumbria.police.uk as early as possible so we can discuss your requirements.
Use of AI in Applications: AI tools may be used to support your application; however, all information provided must be an accurate reflection of your own skills, experience and qualifications. We encourage genuine responses that demonstrate your suitability for the role.
If your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete Management Vetting (MV) form, therefore you must be a resident of the UK for a minimum period of 5 years to ensure vetting checks can be successfully performed. A job offer will be dependent upon vetting clearance, medical information, and references.
Terms of appointment
This is a fixed term / secondment role subject to a six-month probationary period.
If you are successful in your application, you will have a six-month probation period with us where you will be unable to apply for any other post advertised internally or externally.
Internal applicants should normally have completed six months in their current role. Where this requirement is not met, approval must be sought through the Careers mailbox and will be considered by the relevant policy/process owner.
Please note if you are interested in applying for this secondment opportunity, please discuss this with your Line Manager and gain agreement prior to applying.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
