PO/388/B - Force Control Room Police Constable - Bedfordshire Police Operational Support

Applications are invited from substantive Police Constables who have excellent communications skills, strong interpersonal skills, with diverse life / job experience and resilience to come and work from within our Force Contact Centre at Police Headquarters.  This dynamic environment offers the successful applicants the opportunity to both develop their existing skills by taking emergency calls, recording incidents of crime and dispatching officers to live incidents. 

Full training will be facilitated to provide you with the relevant additional skills required to perform this role. 

If you are interested in applying for this exciting opportunity and you have a flair for learning new systems and adapting to challenging situations application is via a brief expression of interest to be submitted by using this platform.

Hours of work – core shift 0600-1800, 1800-0600 4 on 4 off

Additionally, if you require further information please contact C/I Goldsmith.

All applicants must complete a copy of the BCH Application Approval Form and pass this onto their Line Manager and Head of Department for sign off. This will ideally be wet signed though we will accept an audit trail of emails from your Line Manager or Head of Department if this is not achievable. 

The completed approval form needs to be returned to BCHCareers@herts.pnn.police.uk BEFORE the closing date.  Applications will not be progressed to the shortlisting stage unless the Recruitment Team has received a completed Application Approval Form. If, due to exceptional circumstances, you are unable to do so please inform the Human Resources Service Centre as this will need to be authorised. 

This force is a Disability Confident employer. Should you require any reasonable adjustments for your application process that you have not made explicit in the application, please contact the HR Service Centre on 01438 75 7777 (or the above email address) or the manager contact for this role directly. We also offer the guaranteed interview scheme; this means that all candidates with a disability covered by the Equality Act 2010, who meet the minimum entry requirements for the role, will be invited to attend an interview. 

All applications must be submitted through our online recruitment website by clicking the apply button below. 

Everyone at Bedfordshire Constabulary takes personal responsibility to help create an inclusive workplace, where police officers and staff respect one another, feel valued for their differences and can be themselves. We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments, wherever needed so everyone feels welcome and can flourish. 

It is recommended that you download and store a copy of the role profile as this will no longer be available once the advert has closed.