Specialist Document Examiner

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 341608**Salary**:

- £28,119**Job grade**:

- Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- DVLA - Operations and Customer Service Directorate - Casework and Enforcement Group**Type of role**:

- Intelligence
- Investigation
- Operational Delivery**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- SwanseaAbout the job

**Job summary**:
Are you a secure document examiner, experienced in identifying fraudulent documents and can you use your skills to support in legal proceedings at court?

Can you effectively analyse secure documents and convey your findings to key stakeholders, offering insightful recommendations?

Can you use your initiative to independently make decisions based on your expert analysis?

If so, we would love to hear from you

**Job description**:
To support the business area in achieving its fraud error objective, providing evidence about a suspicious or questionable document using a variety of scientific processes and methods. Gather intelligence on travel and identity document fraud and provide specialist advice and forgery detection training to stakeholders.

**Responsibilities**
- Your responsibilities will include but will not be limited to:_
- Build/maintain internal/external stakeholder networks to share professional knowledge and know-how increasing awareness through formal/informal bulletins and document fraud working meetings.
- Provide training, mentoring and assistance to colleagues for their continuing professional development.
- Draw on own and others technical knowledge and experience to make professional judgements in the field of document verification.
- Identify document fraud threats/emerging trends and escalate to SMT and Operational Areas accordingly.
- Attending legal proceedings at court. Providing expert opinion on examination findings.
- Analyse suspect documents and manage and organise evidential/intelligence packages presented to enforcement agencies, ensuring all aspects of legislation/National Intelligence Model (NIM) and associated time scales are observed.
- Adhere to Health & Safety Policies, Data Protection, Security Policies and Equality Act and understand relevant employment law.

For further information about the role please see the attached role profile.

**Additional Information**

**Person specification**:
To be successful in this role, you will have:

- Experience in document examination.
- The ability to work to your own initiative.
- Confidence to make your own decisions based on your knowledge and professional findings.
- Keen eye for detail and a working knowledge of legislation.
- Excellent communication skills.

**_ We strive to ensure that DVLA is a great place to work where everybody can be their true self, be treated with dignity and respect, and according to their individual needs. We have a number of staff network groups run by staff to support their colleagues._**

**About Operational Delivery Profession**

Operational Delivery Profession (ODP) is the largest and most diverse professional community across the Civil Service. Many of us will have an association with several professional communities or specialisms, ODP applies to all public facing roles / or a role that is primarily aligned to supporting the work of those with public facing roles. All critical to the delivery of UK public services_._

Due to the evolving nature of the business, vacancies can become available at any time. Therefore, this campaign may create a reserve list to fulfil demand if it arises which will be held for a period of 12 months.

**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Making Effective Decisions
- Communicating and Influencing
- Working Together
- Seeing the Big Picture

**Benefits**:
Being part of our brilliant Civil Service means you will have access to a wide range of fantastic benefits:

- Best in class learning and development tailored to your role.
- An environment with flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.
- Generous average employer contribution of 27%, depending on rate of salary and chosen pension scheme.
- 25 days holiday, increasing by one day each year up to 30 days pro rata.
- Access to the staff discount portal.
- 24-hour Employee Assistance Programme providing free confidential help and advice for staff.

There are many more opportunities and great benefits of working at DVLA, visit our Careers website for further information._ _

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**Selection process details**:

- This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.**How to Apply**

We need to understand how your skills and experience meet all the essential criteria for this role. You can use any part of your life to