Temporary Firearms Licensing Administration Assistant Job Ref: Cumbria BL TCL 362024 Pay Rate: £11.98 per hour PAYE Hours per week: 37 Monday – Friday normal working hours Role Length: This opening assignment is for 6 months City: Penrith Hybrid working NB: Police Vacancy - only for candidates with a minimum of 5 years continuous UK address history. Please note that this vacancy is subject to a strict security vetting procedure.
The purpose of the role is to provide a comprehensive range of administrative support services as directed by the Firearms Licensing Team Leader, ensuring services are provided to the Constabulary and Firearms Licensing applicants through efficient working in the Firearms Licensing Unit.
Key Responsibilities: Be conversant with and have an understanding of legislation, Home Office and NPCC FELWG Guidance relating to application processes and procedures for firearm and shotgun certificates and permits. Act as an initial point of contact for all applications, emails and telephone calls into the Firearms Licensing Unit. Review, allocate and respond appropriately, ensuring the information is passed to the appropriate team member where necessary. Responsible for maintaining paper-based and electronic records, ensuring changes are accurately recorded, in a timely manner, in compliance with GDPR. Responsible for the receipting of fees received for Firearms Licensing applications, payments being electronic and physical, providing management information as required in relation to income and liaising with the Central Services and Finance Departments as required. Responsible for the time-critical receipting of all applications, including certificate grant and renewal applications, ensuring data is recorded on the NFLMS database accurately, in compliance with GDPR. Responsible for the preparation of letters to applicants who have failed to comply with the requirements of the application process to ensure resolution of the identified issues. Responsible for cancelling certificate records and scanning documents. Ensuring all firearms are accounted for and correctly transferred to new owners or updated to reflect they have been destroyed with all certificates recovered. Responsible for processing changes of address, updating all records, liaising with relevant Firearm and Shotgun Enquiry Officers for security inspections to be completed and the re-issue of certificates. Responsible for sending paper and electronic records of certificate holders to other police forces if change of address is out of Cumbria Constabulary area. NB: Please feel free to apply to us direct via ****** by quoting the job reference and job title exactly. To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would suggest that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, rather than as a PDF If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity. Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, we cannot, unfortunately, respond to all applications. If, therefore, you have not heard from us within 3 days please make a working assumption that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles.
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