What you could be doing | Early Careers
WE HAVE SOME OUTSTANDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
Graduates and Apprentices
Key to meeting our future policing challenges and creating a culture of innovation is the development and training of young people, many of whom go on to have long and successful careers with us.
Whether you’re a parent looking on behalf of their child or a young person considering their future, Derbyshire Constabulary could have the answer.
Current vacancies
Internships
In 2013, EMSOU introduced internships to students who were wanting to gain a further insight into the world of policing. EMSOU cover Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire and Nottinghamshire. Depending on your internship you could attend scenes of crimes, record and recover evidence, submit evidence for relevant analysis as per strategy or place into storage and work closely with investigations teams to produce forensic strategies.
These placements form part of your university course (often as a sandwich placement) and will be of a fixed term for approximately 10 months, Monday to Friday. Full training is provided during the placement along with opportunities to spend time with other units. Placements are across a number of departments which make up Forensic Services, including in the FAS Lab, Drugs Lab, Forensic Case Management and Forensic Imaging units to name just a few.
You can register for job alerts via the below link to set up alerts to your email address once applications for our internships are open.
Apply here
Graduates
Derbyshire Constabulary offers a significant amount of training to new starters and those wanting to progress within the work force. This is why we often don’t require specific work experience – we will train you!
Many of our job roles won’t include ‘graduate’ in the job title but a multitude of roles are available to you. You could join departments such as Forensics, HR, Cyber Crime, Business, Intelligence, Fraud and many more, without experience. You need to look into the job roles that you find interesting and check out the essential criteria. If you meet the criteria, please apply!
Police staff apprenticeships
If you’re positive, innovative, challenging, have a ‘can do’ attitude and can put a real sense of public service at the heart of everything you do, our Apprenticeship programme could be ideal. It’s designed to encourage young people into the organisation who can bring a range of new skills. Apprentices are assigned to different teams across the force and, as well as gaining experience within a busy public sector organisation, can also work towards a number of different qualifications including Business Administration, Finance and Information Technology.
From day one you’ll be encouraged to challenge the ‘status quo’ and suggest new and different ways of working. On the job training is provided by internal colleagues and you’ll be posted to various departments within headquarters too, including finance and business support, crime support, operational support, legal services, communications, HR and IS. All the while, you’ll have the support of a caring employer that looks after the welfare of its workforce by offering flexible working patterns that allow employees to have a healthy work/life balance.
Although a permanent role on completion of the apprenticeship (15-22 months) is not guaranteed, on average 85% of the apprentices do join the force at the end of the programme. Maybe you’ll be one of them.
Meet some of the team
Ava Hudson
Content Creator Apprentice
"...Starting working life has taught me that every day is different. I have experienced many wonderful and different opportunities so far. For example, working alongside the Multimedia Communications team to create a fraud video campaign as well as shadowing the Digital Forensics team and attending an event at Derby College. I hope to experience many more opportunities within Derbyshire Constabulary in the upcoming months.
Applying for an apprenticeship role is one of the best decisions I have ever made. Finding apprenticeships that are relevant to your interests can be tricky as they are sometimes quite limited depending on what time of year you look. However, apprenticeships are becoming more recognised by many different companies and services, both private and public. Derbyshire Constabulary have been taking on apprenticeships for more than 40 years and I feel lucky to be one of those!
I couldn’t have wished for a better start to my working career. I have a very supportive line manager and team and everyone that I have met during my role so far have been very welcoming. I am excited and looking forward to building on my new skills in the next 18 months.”
