Migrant Victim Protocol Officer - Immigration Enforcement

Do you meet the key eligibility criteria?
In order to be eligible, you MUST meet ALL the following criteria.
+ I hold a full manual / automatic UK Driving Licence.
+ I will be able to provide all the ID documents required to complete my pre-employment screening and security clearance.
This role will involve delivery of the Migrant Victim Protocol (MVP) which is a new service, managed by the IE National Safeguarding Engagement & Co-ordination Team (IE NSEC). The MVP will provide an improved response to support migrant victims of crime.
The MVP is due to be launched in Summer 2024 and will grant protection from enforcement action and provide support to migrant victims to resolve their immigration status. The aim for the MVP is to provide a safe pathway for migrant victims to report crime.
The MVP team will work together with the victim to monitor the prosecution activity relating to the perpetrator while signposting the victim to get support and proactively resolve their immigration status.
The role will involve progressing active cases, ensuring that all required actions are undertaken on time, to ensure that the protection is provided consistently and fairly and collating Management Information and analysing data to identify ways to improve the MVP process and support for victims.
The successful candidate will have daily involvement with work being undertaken to safeguard vulnerable adults, which may also involve children.
The role will also involve supporting other safeguarding projects and responding to a variety of enquiries relating to safeguarding vulnerable people.

Person specification
You will work within a small team who undertake the core actions for the MVP. Your responsibilities will include:
• Monitoring and actioning new referrals to the MVP.
• Assessing referrals using defined acceptance criteria to determine when MVP protection is appropriate and undertake actions to implement protection where it is applicable.
• Contacting victims of crime, or those supporting them, by email, letter and, where required, by telephone to assess vulnerability, offer support and discuss intentions.
• Engaging with other interested parties and stakeholders, such as support workers, legal reps, police and others involved in prosecutions, to gather information relevant to MVP protection.
• Recording and assessing information to enable regular reviews of MVP protection and decisions on whether to maintain it.
• Collation of data from IT systems to assist with creation of performance statistics and identification of improvements.
• Monitoring and responding to a broad variety of enquiries from internal and external stakeholders.
• Providing ad hoc support across IE NSEC to enable priority work to be completed and urgent deadlines to be met., A Full Valid Manual or Automatic Driving Licence is required for this role., We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
+ Managing a Quality Service
+ Communicating and Influencing
+ Delivering at Pace
+ Seeing the Big Picture
We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:
+ Managing a Quality Service, For guidance on how to construct your personal statement, you are encouraged to visit Civil Service Careers. Links – Statement
For guidance on how to construct your behaviour examples, you are encouraged to visit Civil Service Careers. Links –Behaviours
The sift will be held on the lead behaviour 'Managing a Quality Service' and the statement of suitability (personal statement). The CV will not be scored.
However, if a large number of applications are received, the sift will be conducted on the statement of suitability (personal statement) only.
The statement of suitability will be scored first for all candidates. Those candidates who achieve the minimum pass score for the statement of suitability, will progress to a further sift where the lead behaviour 'Managing a Quality Service' will be scored. These candidates will therefore receive a sift score for both elements. Candidates who fail to meet the minimum pass score for the statement of suitability will not have their lead behaviour scored and will therefore only receive a sift score for the statement of suitability.
If you are successful at sift stage, you will be invited to an interview which will be
+ behaviour-based questions
For guidance on how to construct your behaviour examples, you are encouraged to visit Civil Service Careers. Links –Behaviours
Problems during the application process
If you experience accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, or you think you’ve made a mistake on an initial application (e.g. you have ticked the incorrect eligibility box), please contact hocandidates.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk at least two working days before the vacancy closes. After this, we may not be able to reopen your application.
Please note, we cannot make amendments to any part of the application.
Please use the following in the subject line in your email if you need to get in contact with us about your initial application “Please re-open my application – Vacancy Ref 352025 CLOSING DATE 17th May 2024.
For reasonable adjustments queries or requests, please see details with reasonable adjustments section.
Tie break decisions
The behaviours being assessed will be ranked in order of importance to enable us to differentiate between candidates with tied interview scores. Please note that the order in which behaviours are listed in the advert does not necessarily reflect the order of importance.
Sift and Interview dates
Sift is expected to take place week commencing 20th May 2024.
Interviews are expected to take place week commencing 3rd June 2024.
We will try to meet the dates set out in the advert, however on occasions these dates may change.
Interviews will be carried out via video. Candidates will be required to have access to:
+ A laptop (personal or work) with a working webcam
+ Good internet connection, For meaningful checks to be carried out, individuals need to have lived in the UK for a sufficient period of time to enable appropriate checks to be carried out and produce a result which provides the required level of assurance. You should normally have been resident in the United Kingdom for the last 3 years if the role requires CTC clearance, 5 years for SC clearance and 10 years for DV. A lack of UK residency in itself is not necessarily a bar to a security clearance and applicants should contact the Vacancy Holder/Recruiting Manager listed in the advert for further advice.
For further information on National Security Vetting please visit the following page https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/demystifying-vetting
Selecting your locations
Please note only list locations where you are prepared to work and can travel to (as you could be offered any of your noted preferences).
When completing your application, you will have the opportunity to select your preferred location. Please ensure you select all locations you are interested in on the understanding that you can be posted to any location that you put in your preferences. If you would only like to be posted to one location, please confirm one location only. If you are posted to a location that you have requested and you do not accept that location, you may not be offered another role. Please note, only advertised locations can be offered.
Reserve List
Where a campaign identifies more appointable candidates than there are available vacancies, a reserve list may be held for up to 12 months.
Reserve lists will be managed by locational merit lists, appointing in merit order per location. You may be offered a post at any of your preferred locations.
Whilst on a reserve list we may offer you an alternative similar role in the Home Office. Should you reject an alternative role, you will remain on the reserve list for the role you applied for. If you accept an alternative role, you will be withdrawn from the reserve list.
Please note there are no guarantees that further vacancies will arise in the locations you originally applied for before your time on the reserve list expires.
Candidates Please Note
Please ensure that all examples provided in your application are taken directly from your own experience and that you describe the examples in your own words. All applications are screened for plagiarism and copying of examples/answers from internet sources. If any is detected the application will be withdrawn from the process. Further action, including disciplinary action, may be considered in such cases involving internal candidates. Providing false or misleading information would be contrary to the core values of honesty and integrity expected of all Civil Servants.
If you are currently an agency member of staff working within the Home Office, a contractor or contingent worker you can only apply for roles that are advertised externally, i.e.: outside the civil service. If you are eligible to apply for a role, you are required to select yourself as an external applicant and not internal when submitting your application on Civil Service jobs. This will prevent any delays in pre-employment checks should you become successful in being made an offer of employment after the Interview stage.
Candidates Please Note: There is no shift working requirement, and therefore no AHW/AHA allowance available for this role.
Please note this role is only available with full-time hours.
Flexible working
Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working. This is a non-contractual arrangement where all employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in an office, subject to local estates capacity, by Spring 2024. Applicants can request further information regarding how this may work in their team from the Vacancy Holder (see advert for contact details).
Every day, Home Office civil servants do brilliant work to develop and deliver policies and services that affect the lives of people across the country and beyond. To do this effectively and fairly, the Home Office is committed to representing modern Britain in all its diversity, and creating a welcoming, inclusive workplace where all our people are able to bring their whole selves to work and perform at their best.
We are flexible, skilled, professional and diverse. We work to recruit and retain disabled staff and area Disability Confident Leader. We are proud to be one of the most ethnically diverse departments in the civil service. We are a Social Mobility Foundation top 75 employer.
New entrants are expected to join on the minimum of the pay band.
Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening,
subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant's details held on the IFD will be refused employment.
For further information please see the attached notes for candidates which must be read before making an application.
Existing Civil Servants should note that some of the Home Office terms and conditions of employment have changed. It is the candidate’s responsibility to ensure they are aware of the Terms and Conditions they will adopt should they be successful in application and should refer to the notes for candidates for further details.
Transfer Terms: Voluntary.
If you are invited to an interview you will be required to bring a range of documentation for the purposes of establishing identity and to aid any pre-employment checks.
Please see the attached list of Home Office acceptable ID documents.
Any move to the Home Office from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility at https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk
Reasonable Adjustments
If a person with disabilities is at a substantial disadvantage compared to a non-disabled person, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes.
If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should:
+ Contact Government Recruitment Service via HOrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs
+ Complete the “Assistance Required” section in the “Additional Requirements” page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at interview, or if you're deaf, a language service professional
If you are experiencing accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the ‘Contact point for applicants’ section.
Feedback
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
+ UK nationals
+ nationals of the Republic of Ireland
+ nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
+ nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
+ nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
+ individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
+ Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy., If you feel that your application has not been treated in accordance with the recruitment
principles, and wish to make a complaint, then you should contact in the first instance
HORecruitment.GRS@cabinetoffice.gov.uk. If you are not satisfied with the response that you receive, then you can contact the Civil Service Commission.

+ Excellent communication skills, written and verbal, able to communicate with a range of audiences.
+ Demonstrate achieving high quality standards and compliance with operational procedures and policies.
+ Experience of producing accurate performance figures.
+ Able to work proactively and use initiative, to promptly respond to work pressures and identify solutions to issues which may arise.
+ Experience of undertaking safeguarding responses providing face to face, or verbal, support to vulnerable people
Desirable criteria
+ Knowledge of Immigration status, rules, and processes.

www.careers.homeoffice.gov.uk/benefits
These are the benefits for you:
+ Learning and development tailored to your role
+ An environment with flexible working options
+ A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
+ A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%