Job Description
Role: Office Manager
Department: Professional Standards
Location: Carbrook, Sheffield
Salary: £38,169 - £43,668
Hours: 37
Contract Type: Temporary for 12 months
In this role you will oversee the allocation and progression of investigative actions, quality assure all material handled by the team, and ensure compliance with disclosure, safeguarding and evidential sta ndards.
You will act as the central point of organisational control for Camelot-Mike, ensuring that partner agency requests are managed efficiently, investigative work is appropriately pr ioritised and recorded, and all processes meet the professional and ethical standards expected within the Professional Standards Department.
Key Responsibilities
Ensuring requests for material from partner agencies investigating CSE linked misconduct or criminality are managed, prioritised and progressed efficiently.
Manage the allocation, tracking and progress of investigative actions, ensuring they are assigned appropriately, completed within required timescales, and aligned with investigative strategy and disclosure obligations.
Quality assure all material handled by the team, including material retrieved from legacy systems, ensuring accuracy, evidential soundness and compliance with CPIA, PACE and Professional Standards regulations.
Coordinate the receipt, assessment and distribution of material obtained through Camelot-Mike enquiries, identifying urgent items, safeguarding concerns or immediate risk information requiring fast-track action.
Oversee the review, scheduling and disclosure of material to internal and external partner agencies, ensuring all decisions are auditable and compliant with legislation and investigative best practice.
Provide leadership, guidance and supervision to investigators and staff, supporting them in the handling of sensitive material, safeguarding considerations and investigative decision making.
Monitor workload, staffing and resourcing, ensuring effective capacity to manage casework volumes and maintain service standards across Camelot-Mike.
Advise senior officers on the status of ongoing enquiries, emerging risks, disclosure issues, patterns of misconduct or organisational learning identified through Camelot-Mike activity.
Chair or contribute to team briefings, tasking meetings and multi‑agency discussions, ensuring actions, decisions and responsibilities are clearly communicated and understood.
Provide technical oversight of investigative documentation, ensuring records, logs, rationales and case files meet required standards and are suitable for scrutiny by PSD, partner agencies or legal proceedings.
Support investigators in safeguarding decisions, ensuring risk assessments, referrals and victim/witness strategies are completed in a timely, trauma informed and compliant manner.
Ensure compliance with statutory referral obligations, including referrals to the IOPC and other oversight bodies, and confirm that required notifications are submitted accurately and promptly.
Identify learning opportunities for individuals and the organisation, overseeing the completion of RPRP/Learning by Reflection documentation and ensuring learning is captured and disseminated.
Undertake supervisory tasks aligned to PSD governance—including oversight of confidentiality, data security, conduct standards, professional behaviours and integrity of investigative processes within Camelot-Mike.
Skills And Experience
Professionalising Investigation Programme (PIP) level 2 accredited.
Computer Literate to include Microsoft applications including HOLMES 2.
Excellent communications skills both written and oral and knowledge of the Criminal Justice System.
Detailed knowledge of RIPA, CPIA, MIRSAP, NIM objectives in addition to Home Office rules and conventions.
Previous Supervisory experience.
Skills and experience as documented in the role profile need to be evidenced in your application to be considered for interview.
For more detailed information relating to the role, skills and experience for this role, please click here to view the role profile.
What We Offer
We offer generous entitlements and supportive policies to enable a better work-life balance, some of which are listed below:
A highly competitive salary and access to a generous pension scheme
Generous annual leave allowance
A wide range of family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
Flexible working arrangements including flexi-time and hybrid working
A transparent and collaborative team culture underpinned by our core values of Fairness, Integrity & Trust
Comprehensive range of development and leadership courses to develop your career with South Yorkshire Police
Employee Assistant Programme (accessible 24/7) offering confidential support and advice
Flexible lifestyle benefits such as: Blue Light Card, Company Shop, Cycle to work scheme
Committed to embedding sustainability: South Yorkshire Police Sustainability Strategy
Membership to the Sports and Social Club
Access to a wide range of staff support groups and networks
Eligibility
Applicants must meet the minimum requirement checkable history criteria, which must be taken into account for individuals applying to work with South Yorkshire Police in any capacity. A minimum checkable history of 5 years is required for this role and successfully undergoing recruitment vetting procedure is a pre-requisite of employment with South Yorkshire Police.
Appearance & Standards
South Yorkshire Police is committed to striking a proportionate balance between self-expression and the need to maintain role sensitive professional standards in dress and appearance. Officers, staff, and volunteers of South Yorkshire Police are permitted to have tattoos visible whilst on duty provided the tattoo is not considered to be unacceptable or otherwise inappropriate. Tattoos will be reviewed as part of the recruitment and selection process.
South Yorkshire Police's overarching aim is to deliver an excellent police service to support safer communities. The public's assessment of our excellence is influenced by the level of trust and confidence in us, as an organisation and as individuals. In comparison to the general public, police officers and police staff are held to a higher standards of behaviour and accountability. In applying to join the police, applicants are accepting of these higher standards and understand the implications on their right to privacy.
South Yorkshire Police's Key Values
At South Yorkshire Police we have 3 key values which run through everything we do Fairness, Integrity & Trust, the attached document details the key behaviours we expect all employees to adhere to.
Smarter Ways Of Working
South Yorkshire Police is committed to developing working practices which assist staff to balance their personal and professional lives, whilst meeting the needs of the organisation. This in turn enables SYP to provide an outstanding service to the community.
There are 3 different categories as part of this which are: Fixed, Field and Hybrid.
This role has been evaluated as a fixed role.
Fixed: This is a traditional arrangement, applicable when the work is mostly required to be undertaken at a fixed single place of work (on police premises) for most of the time. The work can only or is more effectively delivered from a police premises or other agreed organisational/partner premises.
Contact Details
For further information about the role, please contact: T/DI Sam Newton on
Closing Date: 2nd March 2026
Closing dates are not normally extended, other than in exceptional circumstances and agreement is made between the Recruitment Manager and the Line Manager for the role.
Candidate Information
Please note that, should you be successful at the interview stage and before appointment, the relevant pre-employment checks are required. These include references, medical clearance, vetting clearance and sickness absence criteria check.
Diversity & Inclusion
Applications are particularly welcome from female and ethnic minority candidates.
It is really important to us that the department represents the community we serve, in order for us to provide the best service, utilising a range of backgrounds, experience and skills. We support and value all officers and staff and the unique experiences they bring to the role. We strongly encourage and welcome applications from these valuable underrepresented groups.
If you are from an underrepresented group and want to find out more about the support we can offer, please contact our dedicated team on
In addition, we will look to support anyone who requires Part Time/Job share working hours.
Internal Candidates
This vacancy is temporary therefore, you must have the support of your current Line Manager to apply. If you are a permanent member of staff, this would be classed as a secondment opportunity. If you are on a fixed term contract, you must contact the Recruitment Team before applying.
Please ensure that you and your current line manager complete the attached consent form. Please email the completed form to the hiring line manager, with the role title and the closing date stated in the subject of your email.
Without support, your application will not be considered any further.
Further Information
This role is offered on a fixed-term basis in accordance with applicable employment legislation and South Yorkshire Police policy.
Fixed-term contracts are used where there is a genuine business need, such as project-based work, temporary cover or time-limited funding.The fixed term period is subject to change, linked to the posts requirements and may be subject to extension or early termination in line with appropriate notice period.
All fixed-term employees will receive equal treatment and access to opportunities in line with our commitment to fair and inclusive employment practices.
Where appropriate, fixed-term roles may be made permanent without the need for a further recruitment process.
Documents To Review
For the Police Staff Recruitment Vetting Handbook - Please Click here
For Application Guidance and Tips - Please Click Here
For the FIT Values of South Yorkshire Police - Please Click Here
For Secondment Approval - Please Click Here
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