Violence Reduction Unit Support and Administrative Assistant (North Kent/Nackington/HBW)

Location of Role: North Kent/Nackington 

Advert Closing Date: 18/03/2026 

Starting Salary: £25,809.00 (pro-rata for part-time vacancies)

Part/Full Time: Full Time 

Contract Type: Fixed-Term

Working Pattern: Mon-Fri 

Weekend/Evening Working: No 

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an individual to undertake the role of Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) Administrative Assistant.

This is a challenging but exciting opportunity to work in a unique partnership team where you will provide support to the VRU Directors and Project Officer to deliver the VRU Programme.

As part of your role, you will be asked to:

• Provide a full range of support services, including word processing, drafting and preparing correspondence and high-quality policy documentation, drafting policy documents, producing reports and charts, preparing power point presentations, and co-ordinate and make appointments and meetings.
• Organise and maintain administrative systems and procedures for the Department, to ensure that documentation, information and files can be appropriately and readily retrieved at any time.
• Co-ordinate and maintain relevant diaries, arranging appointments and other engagements and ensuring that managers are appropriately briefed of their commitments.
• Arrange meetings on behalf of relevant managers, preparing all paperwork and files beforehand, distributing agendas, minutes, reports and other documentation as necessary, in order to ensure that all participants are prepared. Where necessary attend and minute these meetings, booking venues and ordering refreshments as required.
• Review and evaluate existing administrative systems, ensuring that accurate, up to date records of progress and action taken are maintained at all times.

We are looking for a candidate who can demonstrate experience of working as part of a team, show excellent communication and organisational skills, and has an ability to use office technology and Microsoft applications effectively. Previous experience of working with both internal and external stakeholders would be desirable.

The Violence Reduction Unit is a unique team that is funded through a Home Office Grant. This position is funded to 31st March 2027.

The role will offer flexibility in terms of place of work, including the potential to work from home for those who would like to. In the event that home working is agreed for the successful candidate, there will be a requirement to regularly attend designated ‘Team Zone’ location on average one day a week, as agreed with the line manager. Currently the designated Team Zone for this role is located a North Kent Police Station, however this is due to change to Nackington in near future.

Kent Police offer incremental increases within this salary band, therefore the salary for this position will rise to a maximum of £29,424.00.

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Your application for this role will be shortlisted on the content you provide within the “reason for application” question, within the application form itself. CV’s, covering letters or attachments are not included in the shortlist. Within your “reason for application” answer, please refer to any experience, skills, and abilities you feel you have that will make you suitable for this role, based on the role criteria stated in the job advert or job description. Please provide as much detail as possible as insufficient content may mean you do not meet the shortlisting criteria, however please note this question is limited to 9000 characters and this system will count spaces and blank lines as characters. This count may differ from the Microsoft Word word count function therefore you may wish to use a different online character counter to check the characters used.

All of our posts require a level of vetting and security clearance.  During the recruitment process you will be sent vetting information forms to complete. 

Kent Police and Essex Police welcomes applications regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, sex, or employment status.

Please let us know if you require extra support at any stage of the application process, or for further information regarding this position, please email us at recruitment.business.services@ecis.police.uk stating ‘Application Support and Adjustments’ in the title of your email. Alternatively, you can call us on 01245 452833. Where appropriate we will make adjustments to the selection process, working arrangements and/or the working environment provided it is reasonable in all the circumstances to do so.

If you’re not from the UK, you must be a resident in the UK and have lived here continuously for the last three years. You must also be free from restrictions with indefinite leave to remain. If you’re from the UK you must have lived here continuously for the last three years. This doesn’t apply to those serving abroad in the British Armed Forces.