Job Description
Statement Taker – Up to £212.60 a day (Outside IR35) – 23 Month Contract – Hybrid Working: WFH and Edinburgh based office – Public Sector
Essential Experience:
- Experience or understanding of issues facing vulnerable witnesses and of trauma
- Familiarity with public inquiries
- Excellent IT skills
- Analysis and Use of Evidence
- Communications and Engagement
- Self-Awareness
- Improving Performance
Main Duties Include:
- Prepare and lead sensitive private session interviews with vulnerable applicants;
- Prepare and lead complex interviews with other types of witnesses who have been involved in the care process. These could be in depth and technical;
- Work closely with another Statement Taker and a witness support representative in an interview environment to build and maintain good rapport with the witness/applicant;
- Take detailed record of the private session or interview and have responsibility for audio recording the session;
- Prepare often complex and lengthy witness statements, based on the private session or interview and the audio recording, to the standard required by the Inquiry;
- Work closely with the Legal Team in preparation of complex interviews;
- Liaise with the Inquiry’s Witness Support Team about how to best support traumatised witnesses whilst gathering sometimes upsetting evidence;
Applicants must hold, or be happy to apply for a valid Basic Disclosure Scotland. Please click the link to apply.
