HOLMES Indexer - Homicide Team - Lewisham & Putney
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Job Title: HOLMES Indexer - Homicide Team- Lewisham & Putney
Salary: The starting salary is £34,808, which includes allowances totalling £2,928.
The salary is broken down as £31,880 basic salary, which will increase annually until you reach the top of the scale £34,108. Plus, a location allowance of £1,928 and a non-pensionable allowance of £1,000.
Location: Lewisham, Putney
London is home to nearly nine million people. It’s an evolving and dynamic city, which means we face complex policing challenges every day. And by joining one of our Homicide Investigation Teams, you’ll play a crucial part in the policing London, which generates a large amount of work behind the scenes.
As a HOLMES Indexer, you’ll help us manage the intricate process of investigating serious crimes. You will be working as one of two indexers with in a busy Homicide team within Specialist Crime. You will be part of team within a busy working environment, supporting the unit in the investigation and detection of the most serious of crimes, getting documents processed to allow
With your excellent attention to detail, you’ll maintain designated indices on the Home Office Large Major Enquiry System (HOLMES), cross-reference information, raise any actions for investigation, and identify intelligence development opportunities. It’s about handling large volumes of material in an organised, methodical way, as well as working to agreed timelines. By doing so, we can be even more efficient solving or detecting crimes both swiftly and successfully. Some work may contain unpleasant details of offences, and information of a highly confidential nature.
This is a chance to be right at the heart of Homicide investigations. With staff and officers depending on you, high standards are crucial. It takes great communication and IT skills, balancing competing priorities, using your initiative, and supporting your colleagues.
Application requirement is a CV and a personal statement of why you feel you would be suitable for a role as an Indexer on a Homicide Team.
Applicants are required to pass the HOLMES competency test and indexer course if not already trained prior to selection.
How to apply
To begin your career at the Met, please click the "apply now" button below. The application process requires a comprehensive CV, a Personal Statement, and an online application form. In your Personal Statement, you should explain your interest in the position and illustrate how your skills and experiences make you a suitable candidate. Please note that you should not submit two copies of your CV, and ensure that your documents are saved in either PDF or Word format, clearly labelled as CV and/or Personal Statement.
Completed applications must be submitted by 23:55 on 3rd September 2025.
Once received, your application will be reviewed against eligibility criteria, following this, your application will be reviewed by the hiring manager. The application review for this vacancy will commence 1 to 2 weeks after the closing date.
Following application review, successful candidates will be invited to interview. Interview dates will commence 1 to 2 weeks after hiring manager review.
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Essential For The Role, e.g. qualifications, licenses, languages, training
- Able to travel to the office 4 days a week
- Good communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Good IT skills. Familiarity with Office 365
- Ability to deal with large volumes of information, across multiple operations
- Ability to work constructively as part of a team to meet deadlines
- Ability to prioritise daily tasks in accordance with demand
The Met is committed to being an equitable (fair and impartial) and inclusive employer for disabled people, striving to have a diverse and representative workforce at all levels. We encourage applications from people from the widest possible range of backgrounds, cultures and experiences. We particularly welcome applications from people with disabilities and long-term conditions, ethnic minority groups and women.
As a Disability Confident Leader, the Met has committed to making disability equality part of our everyday practice. We ensure that people with disabilities and those with long term conditions have the opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations.
The Met is committed to making reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process to ensure disabled applicants can perform at their best. If you need any reasonable adjustments or changes to the application and recruitment process, we ask that you include this information within your application form. All matters will be treated in strict confidence.
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