What we can offer you

Taking care of each other

At Derbyshire Constabulary, we aim to create an environment that puts people first. We want you to feel supported in everything you do, so you can give your very best. So, we’ll enable you to be innovative and try new things, and we’ll celebrate your successes. We recognise that people make mistakes, so we’ll encourage you to focus on learning from them. And our health and wellbeing programmes are designed to make you feel valued and cared for.

If you have any personal or professional problems, we’ll give you the support and care you need. And we’re improving the support we offer to anyone who’s experiencing stress or mental health issues. So, we’ll listen to you, act and communicate openly about what we’re doing. We’ll remove barriers and fix things that get in the way of doing a good job. We’ll act with compassion and stay true to our values.

Our commitment to leadership and building a more inclusive organisation underpins our force priorities. We want to build a capable, confident, well-led and well-equipped workforce. Our focus on collective commitment will enable you to develop your talents and work in environment where colleagues support each other to perform at their best.

Our Leadership model

Our LEADership Model describes how we lead ourselves, each other and our organisation and supports how we work together to deliver the best service to the public.

LEAD (Listen, Engage, Act, Deliver) sets out the behaviours and expectations for everyone, regardless of rank, role or department. It is built on our values and provides a common language for leadership across the force, helping to develop confident and capable leaders.

Our values of integrity, professionalism, respect and being proud to serve underpins every LEAD behaviour and guide how we work every day. It helps us to create consistent leadership across the force through clear leadership standards and expectations to enable us to build trust and accountability, giving improved outcomes for our communities.

Whether you join us as a police officer, member of police staff, volunteer or leader, by following the LEAD model you will be in environment where colleagues support each other to perform at their best, where there is openness to feedback and continuous learning. You will have ownership over your decisions and actions while working collaboratively across teams.

Shaping an effective workforce

To make sure we continue to meet the needs of the people of Derbyshire, we need to attract - and keep - the right people who have the right skills and behaviours. That means creating jobs they want and giving them chances to progress, so we can compete in an increasingly competitive market.

How do we do this? By being creative in how we recruit and select the right people. By developing career opportunities that will attract people with diverse attitudes, behaviours and skills. And by constantly looking at new ways of rewarding and developing our top-performing people and teams who show the right behaviours.