Criminal Justice Supervisor - Hybrid

Are you looking to join a vibrant team of passionate and experienced members of the police family all striving towards bringing offenders to justice and helping to deliver outstanding services to victims, witnesses, perpetrators and other partners involved in the criminal justice system?

This is a role within Criminal Justice and exciting opportunity to lead a team that are vital to improving the service we provide our communities. Working collaboratively with operational teams you will be responsible for driving up Criminal Justice performance. You will lead and develop your team including managing their welfare, workloads and ongoing development.

Our team are the experts in Case Progression, helping the force provide an outstanding Criminal Justice service. We ensure case files are progressed efficiently with quality as our prime focus. Every person that works for us, is in some way supporting and serving the community we represent.

Salary - £38,754 - £40,893

This/These post(s) attract allowances - Shift Allowance Shift percentage - 14% Hours per week - 37

Locations - Bridgwater Police Centre- TA6 4RR, Bristol, Bridewell Police Station Bristol - BS1 2AA, Bristol, Concorde House- BS16 7FH, Bristol, Patchway Police Centre- BS34 6PY, Keynsham, Police Centre- BS31 1SX

In this role, your main responsibilities will be:

• Supervise a team of staff within Criminal Justice including responsibility for welfare, development, performance issues and workload management.
• Manage risk, prioritise, problem solve and make decisions in a timely manner to contribute to the effective running of the department.
• Working collaboratively with force leads to develop, co-ordinate and actively support improvement s in those areas.
• Undertake preparation of performance reports, to include statistical and qualitative data as required.
• To be responsible for all enquiries and complaints and that they are progressed to a satisfactory conclusion and liaison with third parties where required.
• Support the implementation of new local and national initiatives and change programmes to ensure compliance and consistency across the team.
• Build effective working relationships and establish robust communication methods with internal and external stakeholders to improve service delivery to the public.
• Proactively provide knowledge-based guidance and direction to operational teams based on understanding of Criminal Justice processes. Providing subject matter expertise, through peer challenge and review with supervisors.

Skills and experience required:

• Be able to lead, supervise and motivate a team with the ability to manage conflict and challenge underperformance and behaviours.
• Have the ability to work in a team and have effective decision making skills, with the ability to remain objective, impartial and professional, together with being able to manage demand, prioritise and multi task.
• Have experience of working collaboratively with, and influencing stakeholders.
• An understanding of Criminal Justice processes and procedures.
• Excellent IT skills including the ability to use and update a wide range of computer systems.
• Have excellent communication skills to be able to build relationships with colleagues to influence, support and challenge
• Data Analysis skills to identify performance issues and themes and the ability to produce reports on this.

Additional Information:

This role works a 10 day rolling shift pattern, which consists of working 2 early shifts (7am 4pm), 2 late shifts (3pm midnight), 2 mid shifts (11am 8pm), followed by 4 rest days.

This is a blended role, the successful candidate will have the opportunity to work from home and at a secondary work location of either Keynsham, Patchway, Concorde, Bridgwater or Bridewell. The expectation will be that you regularly attend a Police location for meetings etc.

Shortlisting is due to take place week commencing 10th March with assessment and interview to be confirmed.

If you would like more information about the role, please contact Simon Ellis via

The application window may close early if we feel we have enough successful applications submitted. We encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment. We look forward to receiving your application.

To be eligible to apply for this role you must have a 3 year checkable history in the UK ideally this means that you would have been resident in the UK for the last 3 years.

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Please note: We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications. We encourage interested candidates to apply as soon as possible to ensure their application is considered.

Blended Working/ Hybrid Working

Avon and Somerset Police encourage flexible working where operationally possible.
This role has been identified as a blended role.
The successful candidate for this role will have the opportunity to work from home whilst also at a secondary work location, which will be a police premises. The successful applicant will have the option to discuss working arrangements with their line manager. All applicants must reside within the UK.