Desk Based Investigator

Contract Type   Permanent Working Pattern   Full time - flexible working may be considered Working Hours   35 hours per week Salary   £33,405 per annum Location Options   Hybrid - home based and Birmingham Function Type   Investigations  

Are you an individual with experience of conducting interviews, drafting witness statements and gathering evidence to support with complex investigations? We are looking to recruit a Desk Based Investigator to join our Investigation and Supervision Department. Applications are welcome from a wide range of experience and expertise. This is a hybrid role based in our Birmingham office.

 

What will I be doing?

You will sit within the Investigation and Supervision department to support and assist a team of Investigation Officers, who are at the forefront of investigating reports about misconduct. You will be responsible for a range of activities and your key tasks will include:

• Conducting both witness and respondent interviews either remotely or when required on-site across England and Wales.
• Draft witness statements and other communications to the highest standards of quality to support complex and/or technical investigations
• Obtaining evidence from external stakeholders by a variety of methods.

As part of your role, you will be expected to independently conduct interviews draft witness statements and undertake other evidence gathering activities. You will need to be flexible and be able to work to competing priorities within defined timescales. Your primary focus will be on supporting Investigation Officers and taking direction from them on what is required from you. You will assist them to manage a varied caseload and support high priority investigations.

Who are Investigation and Supervision?

We investigate reports and complaints about solicitors and others we regulate. These investigations arise from behaviour both within and outside of practice, will vary in length and complexity and we apply a range of factors to decide on what action we should take. Read more about our approach to enforcement here.

What's in it for me?

• Protect the public and enforcing high professional standards.
• Showcase and develop your casework, legal and customer service expertise.
• Work collaboratively with other areas of our organisation and with external stakeholders.
• Enjoy a varied role; your workload and responsibilities will vary from case to case.

 

What we are looking for

• Experience of conducting respondent/suspect interviews and drafting witness statements to support complex and/or technical investigations
• Experience of successfully working with high case holdings, where ongoing review of priorities is required dependent on complexity and demands.
• Experience of influencing and constructively challenging internal and external stakeholders.
• Good customer service ethos with ability to provide high standards of customer service.
• Experience of working well under direction and autonomously and collaborating as part of a functional or cross functional team.

Applications are welcome from a wide range of experience and expertise, including:

• Legal profession
• Regulatory sector
• Investigation
• Law enforcement

 

Useful and additional information

There is a full role profile included at the bottom of this advert.

The role is hybrid and will be based from our office in Birmingham 1-2 days a week, and from home the rest of the week.

This role may require occasional travel to conduct on-site interviews; such travel will be arranged in advance and take place in the normal course of work.

To find out more about the recruitment and selection process and how to make the most of your application, please visit our jobs pages.

If you have any questions that are not answered in the advert, additional documents or on our website, please contact us via recruitment@sra.org.uk.

 

To apply

Please use the apply button at the bottom of the advert. You will be asked to upload a CV and show evidence of your skills and experience against the listed criteria. Your application will be assessed on your CV and the answers you provide in the application form. We suggest answers are kept to 300 words or less for each criterion.

Closing date of this advert is Monday 03 February 2025 at 9:00.

Assessments are expected to take place on 12 and 13 February and interviews in the weeks of 24 Feb and 3 March remotely.

The SRA is the independent regulator of solicitors and law firms in England and Wales, protecting consumers and supporting the rule of law and the administration of justice. We do this by overseeing all education and training requirements necessary to practise as a solicitor, licensing individuals and firms to practise, setting the standards of the profession and regulating and enforcing compliance against these standards. We offer an inclusive, supportive and friendly working environment and the chance to develop your career within a professional organisation. We are committed to the health and wellbeing of staff, helping everyone to strike a good balance between personal and professional life.

Additionally, we provide a generous flexible benefits package, including gym membership with a tax only cost, an excellent defined contribution pension scheme and an additional 3% of annual basic salary upon successful completion of probation. Attached Role Profile   Desk Based Investigator - Role Profile - April 2024.doc – 553KB Opens in a new window
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The Solicitors Regulation Authority is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

Diversity and inclusion is central to everything we do. We are actively committed to promoting and participating in good practice in the way that we attract, recruit and retain staff.

Everyone is encouraged to bring their whole self to work because we appreciate the value that a truly diverse workforce brings to an organisation. We celebrate difference, recognising the benefits this brings to our inclusive culture, including age, disability, gender identity and expression, religion, race, sex, sexual orientation and socio economic background.

 We are a Stonewall Top 100 Employer, a member of ENEI, a disability confident employer and we are happy to talk flexible working.

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