Deputy Director for Criminal Enforcement Unit

Civil Service
Full Time
Potters Bar
86,000 - 117,800
Posted 3 weeks ago

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Job summary

The CEUs approach gives equal weight to preventative and criminal justice-focused interventions - reflecting a clear understanding that long-term threat reduction requires a wholesystem response beyond prosecution. The unit works in cross-sector partnership at home and abroad to protect the public and maintain regulatory integrity.

The CEUs mission is to prevent offending where it can, disrupt offending where it cannot, and to bring offenders to justice where it should. It does this by maintaining an accurate understanding of the nature and dimensions of the threat, and leading, supporting and

coordinating innovative and impactful interventions to reduce it.

The CEU has seven teams, split between its Intelligence and Investigations Commands. The heads of Command report directly to the postholder as head of the unit.

Job description

The purpose of the role is to provide strategic leadership for the unit, ensuring the Agency has an effective, intelligence-led and proportionate capability to address the most serious criminal breaches of medicines and medical devices regulations. The postholder is responsible for setting the strategic direction of the unit, ensuring its activity supports the Agency's wider regulatory objectives and contributes to protecting public health.

The role leads a multi-disciplinary team, fostering a culture of professionalism, continuous improvement and high performance, while ensuring that decision-making across the unit is robust, evidence-based and aligned with the Agency's priorities. The postholder represents the MHRA at senior levels across government, law enforcement and the wider regulatory community, building effective partnerships to strengthen the UK's response to criminal threats.

As head of the CEU, the Deputy Director for Criminal Enforcement is accountable to the Executive Committee and ultimately to the Agencys Board for the units overall delivery and performance.

Person specification

Please refer to the attached Candidate Information Sheet

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