Join Police Digital Service as a People Services Administrator. Salary starting at £33,000 per annum.

To protect people from harm in our rapidly changing world, police services must not only keep up with technology and business changes but develop capabilities and ways of working that will enable them to adapt to and deal with the complexity of modern criminality.

Police Digital Service strives to be the go-to partner for technology developments and programmes across UK policing. Our team provides technical advice and delivers services to help policing and law enforcement organisations across the UK prioritise and focus on technology efforts.

Our vision is to support UK policing to keep people safe, get more from technology investments and make better use of public money, and we’re always on the lookout for great talent to help us achieve this.

We’re looking for a proactive and detail-oriented HR Administrator to support the smooth running of day to day HR operations. This role plays a key part in delivering an efficient and responsive service to employees and managers, with responsibilities ranging from managing employee records to coordinating onboarding processes and drafting routine HR correspondence.

The ideal candidate will be highly organised, confident handling confidential information and comfortable working with both systems and spreadsheets. This is a great opportunity for someone looking to build or further develop their HR career within a supportive environment.

Our Values are:

We value People
We do the right thing
We are innovative
We are one Team
We are proud and passionate

Key Responsibilities

Monitoring and managing the People Services shared inbox ensuring appropriate triage and escalation where needed.
Responding to queries in a timely and professional manner.
Support the onboarding process by ensuring new starters are accurately set up in all relevant systems, all required documentation is received and correctly recorded and that necessary pre-employment checks are completed in a timely manner.
Coordinating and tracking DSE assessments and follow-ups, ensuring actions are logged and support provided where necessary.
Draft and issue a range of correspondence, including probation outcomes, change of terms and reference requests ensuring accuracy and confidentiality.
Maintain up to date and accurate records in our HR system, including employee data, changes to terms, absence records and compliance checks.
Manage and maintain HR spreadsheets, trackers and databases, supporting regular reporting and audits.
Coordinating and tracking DSE assessments and follow-ups, ensuring actions are logged and support provided where necessary.
Draft and issue a range of correspondence, including probation outcomes, change of terms and reference requests ensuring accuracy and confidentiality.
Maintain up to date and accurate records in our HR system, including employee data, changes to terms, absence records and compliance checks.
Manage and maintain HR spreadsheets, trackers and databases, supporting regular reporting and audits.
Proactively identify opportunities to improve and streamline administrative processes and support the implementation of system or process enhancements.

What you need to succeed in the role

Has strong attention to detail when it comes to accurate data entry and document preparation.
Able to manage multiple tasks and deadlines.
Clear and professional in their written and verbal communication.
Handles sensitive information confidentially and with discretion.
Takes initiative to solve problems and improve processes.
Confident using HR systems, excel and Microsoft office.
Works collaboratively and supports others when needed

You can find out more here:

Benefits - Police Digital Service (pds.police.uk)

Diversity, equity and inclusion

We are committed to equal opportunities for all and will not discriminate on any grounds. We encourage applications from people from the widest possible span of experience. All applicants will be considered without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, parental status, nationality, neurodiversity or disability status.

Working Arrangements

This is a remote role.

All applicants must be eligible to undergo NPPV3 (Non Police Personnel Vetting Level 3 )and SC vetting clearances. Successful applicants will require NPPV3 clearance to have been cleared before starting with PDS.

Please note, we may choose to close the advert early if we receive a high volume of applications for this role so please endeavour to to complete your application as soon as possible.