Police Co-ordinator

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**Our Team**

As part of our wider Serious Injury team, our Police Co-ordinators manage all police lead contacts nationally, keeping colleagues up to date with any police developments and/or feedback. Operating with an innovative and agile mind-set, they will protect our market leading position with the police, through being one step ahead of our competitors by engaging internal and external contacts in targeted activity.

A technical expert with a leading, hands-on role, you will operate as the “go to” referral point for new case enquiries from police sources and providing appropriate tactical guidance and improving team knowledge levels.

**Your Role and What You'll Be Doing**

Key Responsibilities for this role include:

- Assume responsibility for, co-ordinate and deliver business development activity across Irwin Mitchell (IM) nationally in your role as BD lead for Police-related activity.
- Maintaining and further developing our engagement with police forces throughout England and Wales.
- Maximise the opportunities with a view to ensuring that Roads Policing officers are aware of IM and the quality of services that we provide to the police and to the victims of road traffic collisions.
- Seek to develop relationships with new police contacts nationally to secure personal referrals
- Embedding IM brand awareness in everything that is delivered, including all training material.
- Co-ordinate with all police lead contacts within IM offices, keeping IM colleagues up to date with any Police developments or relevant feedback within their geographic area or indeed on a national basis if relevant.
- Maintain the number of IM Roads Policing CPD events for Roads Policing officers, Family Liaison officers and Lead Investigators.
- To be involved in organising and delivering a programme of training. Our courses include Roads Policing Lead Investigator / Investigating Officer training, Serious & Fatal Review training, and Advanced Roads Policing Lead Investigators.
- Develop new online training packages for Roads Policing and FLO officers. These will be targeted to specific areas of policing and developed in conjunction with key police contacts.
- Ensure we are continuing to evolve our training to incorporate all/any latest developments, to maintain our ‘best in class’ position and maintain our market leading approach, staying one step ahead of our competitors.
- Take an active part on social media Twitter / LinkedIn and Facebook with IM community projects and promote relevant updates.
- Support our legal teams with case selection and monitoring of road traffic collisions.
- Use existing collision investigation skills to conduct case reviews for colleagues to assess collision dynamics with a view to providing clear advice to assist in assessing liability issues in civil cases.

**About You**

**Desirable**: Level 4 training, though this is not essential

**Our Benefits - What We Can Offer You**
- 25 days holidays as standard plus bank holidays - You can ‘buy’ up to 35hrs of extra holiday too.
- Generous and flexible pension schemes.
- Volunteering days - Two days of volunteering every year for a cause of your choice (fully paid)
- Westfield Health membership, offering refunds on medical services alongside our Aviva Digital GP services.

We have been ranked in the Best Workplaces for Wellbeing for Large Organisations for 2024

Our responsible business programmes are fundamental to who we are and our purpose. We’re committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace where our colleagues can flourish, and we have established a number of inclusion network groups across our business to support this aim.

Our commitment to Social Responsibility, community investment activity and tackling climate change is a fundamental part of who we are. It’s made up of four strands: Our People, Our Community, Our Environment and Our Pro Bono.

**Additional Information**

As part of the Irwin Mitchell Group’s on-boarding process all successful applicants are required to complete the group’s employment screening process. This process helps to ensure that all new employees