NCA Trainee Investigator/Intelligence 2019

Hugely helpful, thank you

The shift patterns are generally fluid and it’s more important you can flex rather than being fixed. If you are in a department which needs to offer some kind of threat to life response, then you may need to work shifts. But the majority of the round the clock stuff is kept to a minimum and cover often provided by the 24/7 control centre and a number of on call staff. Obviously this may be different whilst Covid is ongoing.

Usually, people work flexi and just need to do there hours over the week providing there’s nothing which needs urgent attention. Some people start early and other start late. Most folk work Monday to Friday on a normal week.

If you are needed to work a long day or an early start for arrests etc, you get the time back. But these are often planned in advance. Bosses are very understanding.

If you are on a training course, the trainers will probably ask at the start of the week what days people want to work and that will be that. Courses tend to be run in Warrington or London so you may need to be away from home on those weeks. Courses usually run to allow for travel on Monday morning (late start) and Friday afternoon (early finish).

By all means, I don't disagree. I'm just dropping in a reminder, as someone who works a job which requires similar diligence is all!

Can I ask, are you supposed to keep application to join the NCA secret? A friend who works for the government was told not to tell people about her job application at the time and thinks the NCA must be the same but I don’t recall being told this?

For those roles they do normally advise not to tell anybody at the time of applying.

There was nothing on the NCA application to state that the application should be kept under wraps

I personally have only told close family and a couple of friends but that is just through choice rather than a requirement.

How long did it take people to hear back from their result of the assessment centre?

Thats not too bad thanks

I just heard I’m into the candidate pool after one week so it’s not long. Now to wait fingers crossed!!

Me too! Congrats!

Oh amazing when did you go for your assessment centre? I went to London last Friday.

Hey all, anyone who has assessment centre in March had a start date this week?

Me too! Congrats!

Thats great well done guys! I feel so nervous to hear back - i really want this job but keep thinking back to the assessment centre and how i missed things out or i should have written down etc.

It’s natural to think that - I’m sure we all do! Hindsight is great but I’m sure the assessors know that, with more time or a second attempt, we might do/respond differently. Did you have your AC recently?

Yeah last week! So by the sounds of it we will probably hear this coming week

Hi everyone, just wondering what kind of maths you had to do throughout the application process like was maths tested in the online assessments?

Hey all, anyone who has assessment centre in March had a start date this week?